Brian Swimme's work includes The Universe is a Green Dragon, The Universe Story, written with Thomas Berry, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, and The Journey of the Universe, written with Mary Evelyn Tucker.
18 Facts About Brian Swimme
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Brian Swimme is the producer of three DVD series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth's Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe.
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Brian Swimme teamed with Mary Evelyn Tucker, David Kennard, Patsy Northcutt, and Catherine Butler to produce Journey of the Universe, a Northern California Emmy-winning film released in 2011.
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Brian Swimme is an evolutionary cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in the philosophy, cosmology and consciousness and ecology, spirituality, and religion programs, areas of study within the philosophy and religion program.
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Brian Swimme has developed an interpretation of the human as an emergent being within the universe and earth.
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Brian Swimme was featured in the television series Soul of the Universe and The Sacred Balance produced by David Suzuki.
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Brian Swimme is the producer of a twelve-part DVD series Canticle to the Cosmos.
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Brian Swimme founded the international Epic of Evolution Society in 1998.
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Brian Swimme described his discovery of Teilhard in his foreword to Sarah Appleton Weber's translation of Teilhard's The Human Phenomenon: He adopted Teilhard's thinking that everything in existence has a physical as well as a spiritual dimension.
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Brian Swimme believes the universe is a deep transfiguration process.
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Suzanne Taylor, founder of Mighty Companions, said Brian Swimme is a charismatic person who seeks to place scientific technology in its context of the infancy of the Earth community as it struggles for reconnection to its sacred source.
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Brian Swimme believes that human beings are the current culmination of the still-evolving universe.
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Brian Swimme tells the story of the evolution of the universe and attempts to pull people into a universe of meaning, where there is not only connectivity, but directionality as well.
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Pacific Sun newspaper reported that Brian Swimme was at the forefront of a new movement that integrates science and spirituality.
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Brian Swimme believes there is a new story, the epic of evolution, a cosmological narrative that begins with the Big Bang, which started the whole process, and proceeds to the evolution of the universe and life on Earth.
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Brian Swimme believes that science, holistically, can have a great impact on people.
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Brian Swimme thinks that the popular view is that the Earth is like a gravel pit or a hardware store, that the Earth is just stuff to be used.
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Brian Swimme believes that consumerism has become the dominant world faith, exploiting the riches of the Earth.