Much have I travelled in the realms of space
Past supergiants and dying galaxies,
With floating rubble tossed on cosmic seas
A million miles from Earth’s familiar face.
A watcher of the skies, I can record
The birth of dust-enshrouded stars, long dead;
Imploding voids on which black holes have fed
Behind celestial borders, unexplored.
Time-travelling, I shall complete my task,
Revealing scenes beyond imagination
To catch the first birth-pangs of our creation –
A triumph for the team. And yet I ask:
      An image of the ancient past unfolds
      But who can picture what the future holds?
 
By Sylvia Fairley

By Thomas Berry, from The Dream of the Earth (1988)

We are living in the midst of great tensions around the planet. This situation is now being called the "polycrisis." Berry's essay, which is the concluding chapter in The Dream of the Earth, offers penetrating insight into how to manage such tensions with creative foresight.

“My proposal is that the cosmology of peace is presently the basic issue. The human must be seen in its cosmological role just as the cosmos needs to be seen in its human manifestation. This cosmological context has never been more clear than it is now, when everything depends on a creative resolution of our present antagonisms.”

               - Thomas Berry

Read “The Cosmology of Peace” here.

Podcast

"The Integral Education Panel on Ecological and Cosmological Education"
Hosted by Theodore Richards
Featuring Missy Lahren, Sam King, Bryan Pannill, Matt Switzer, and Karie Crisp Vazquez
 
“The paradox that lies at the heart of religion and nature – and this is the question we are indeed grappling with right now – is how to retain a sense of our connection to the world around us, the world we can touch and feel and taste and also to the world, the planet, as a whole. This is, in many ways, the challenge that climate change has presented us with. Our cosmos is the planet now, and we must consider the spaces in which we teach and learn and grow together are metaphors for the Earth as a whole.”

Listen here.

News Articles

“What NASA’s Crash Into an Asteroid Looks Like”
By Kenneth Chang. The New York Times, September 27, 2022.

“Natural Inspiration”
By Elizabeth Pennisi. Science, September 22, 2022.

“New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades”
NASA, September 21, 2022.

“Mars Is Mighty in First Webb Observations of Red Planet”
By Alise Fisher. NASA, September 19, 2022.

“The Power of a Cosmic Perspective”
By Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2022.

“Breakthrough shows humans were already standing on their own two feet 7 million years ago”
By Jean-Renaud Boisserie et. al. Big Think, September 17, 2022.

“World’s Oldest Vertebrate Fossil Heart Found in Australia”
By Margaret Osborne. Smithsonian Magazine, September 16, 2022.

“Why it is awesome that your brain can experience awe”
By Richard Sima, The Washington Post, September 15, 2022.

“​​The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting”
By Jon Gertner. The New York Times, September 15, 2022.

“Beads show European trade in African interior used Indigenous routes”
By Mike Cummings. Yale News, September 15, 2022.

Job Opening

Clinical Assistant Professor: Science
New York University, Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS), Liberal Studies

Application Deadline: November 1, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Liberal Studies at New York University invites applications for a Clinical Assistant Professor position to begin September 1, 2023, pending administrative and budgetary approval.

PhD in Astronomy, Physics, or related fields. Candidates must have experience and demonstrated success with teaching undergraduate astronomy and the ability to teach natural science courses for non-science majors. Candidates must have the ability to teach “History of the Universe”, which covers the origin and development of stars, galaxies, planetary systems, and the universe itself, as well as the study of the earth, the development of life on earth, and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe. Candidates are expected to demonstrate experience teaching science courses with a global and interdisciplinary perspective and the ability to teach about the science of technology. Successful candidates may be provided opportunities to develop and teach upper-division undergraduate seminars focused on global environmental issues or sustainability.

Deeptime Leadership & Personal Empowerment Program
September 2022 - June 2023

The nine-month Deeptime Leadership and Personal Empowerment Program, with or without certificate, began September 21st.

Three Modules:

• Introducing the New Cosmology
• Applying the New Cosmology
• Deeptime Leadership Practicum

For more information, contact hello@dtnetwork.org.