“I become who I will be within the network of relations, rooted in the non-human, blooming in the intimate, branching into the unknown.”

-Catherine Keller
 

In this episode, Sam King speaks with Jason Brown, a lecturer in the Humanities and the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

Dr. Brown speaks about his unique research and teaching on forests and how trees have featured in the mythic imagination of diverse human cultures across time.

Watch the episode here.

Journey of the Universe Film Screening
Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network Conference
Rome and Assisi, Italy
June 4-11, 2023
Learn more here.

Journey of the Universe Film Screening
Yale Young Global Scholars Program
June 24, July 8 & July 22, 2023

Blue Ridge Rites of Passage

Blue Ridge Rites of Passage (BRROP) is an initiatory journey for young adults (ages 18-28) and a response to the troubled times we are living through. The program consists of four main components: group council, 1-on-1 coaching/mentoring, medicine walks, and a multi-day vision fast. The curriculum guides participants through a deep inquiry into personal and collective cosmologies, immerses them in the depths of the living world, and supports them to identify and live into their gifts, all within a nourishing and supportive community context.

The cohort will be limited to 12 participants. Acceptance into the program will follow a short application and interview process.

Learn more here.

Deeptime Leadership & Wellbeing Program (Nine Month Program)
With Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Matthew Fox, Mariane Rowe, Jennifer Morgan, Sarbmeet Kanwal, and others.
Starts September 20, 2023
Three Modules: Introducing the New Cosmology, Applying the New Cosmology, Deeptime Leadership Practicum

Learn more here.

Photo courtesy of The New York Times

The Human Energy Project is celebrating the discovery of the noosphere 100 years ago, with workshops, master classes, and an end-of-year conference. Follow along to see the full program.

Click here to learn more.

• First Great Lesson - Coming of the Universe and the Earth

• Second Great Lesson - Coming of Life

• Third Great Lesson - Coming of Human Beings

• Fourth Great Lesson - Communication in Signs

• Fifth Great Lesson - The Story of Numbers”

Read more about The Five Great Lessons here.

Free Book Celebration - The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life has Emerged and Evolved
With Ursula Goodenough
Interviewed by Jennifer Morgan on May 23, 2023.

Watch the recording here.

Noospheric Consciousness with Brian Thomas Swimme
Global Kinship
May 11, 2023

Watch the recording here.

News Articles 

“Study Offers New Twist in How the First Humans Evolved”
By Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, May 17, 2023.

“‘Six times the size of Yosemite’: the new tribal sanctuary off the super-rich California coast | Native Americans”
By Lucy Sherriff and Avila Beach. The Guardian, May 18, 2023.

“Native American advocate for tribal sovereignty Joe A. Garcia dies at 70”
The Washington Post, May 13, 2023.

“Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed”
By Hannah Devlin. The Guardian, May 12, 2022.

“Amazon Deforestation Down 40 Percent So Far This Year”
Yale E360, May 12, 2023.

“Stanley Deser, Whose Ideas on Gravity Help Explain the Universe, Dies at 92”
By Kenneth Chang. The New York Times, May 8, 2023.

“It’s the End of a World as We Know It”
By Becky Ferreira. The New York Times, May 3, 2023.

“The most mysterious forests on Earth are underwater”
By Benji Jones. Vox, May 3, 2023.

“This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science”
By Annie Roth. Science, May 1, 2023.

“A physicist’s journey to the ‘critical point’ and the ‘strong force’”
Yale News, April 27, 2023.

“What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA”
By Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 27, 2023.

“The Planet Inside”
By Paul Voosen. Science, March 21, 2023.

“Mushrooms may ‘talk’ to one another with up to 50 words”
By Tess Joosse. Science, April 7, 2023.

Books

“The inspiring story of one Dominican sister’s ongoing journey in religious life, moving from conventional ministries to a growing engagement with nonviolent witness, peace activism, and care”

By Sr. Jeanne Clark
Orbis Books
Ecology and Justice Series
Published March 1, 2023

Read more about the book in this article from National Catholic Reporter.

Order the book here.

“The Place of Our Belonging is the story of an intimate communion of thought and practice, a small and deep work for children and educators, that formed as The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World at Timberlake Earth Sanctuary in the foothills of North Carolina from 2000-2022...How might we create a context where children could enter the depths of their own being in order to be present with the meadows and woodlands, the creeks and ponds, the wind and sun, and all the creatures of Timberlake Earth Sanctuary, just eighteen miles from the meadow of Thomas Berry’s childhood? The Place of Our Belonging takes you deep into the inner landscape of this work for children and educators, devoted to the living reality of an emergent and sacred universe.”

By Peggy Whalen-Levitt
The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World
Released May 21, 2023

Purchase the book here.

“A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America”

Yale University Press
Published April 25, 2023
Purchase the book here.

Read a review in the New York Times here.

Deeptime Leadership & Wellbeing Program
(2023-2024)
Starts Sept. 20, 2023

Featuring Stephan Martin, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Jennifer Morgan, Brian Thomas Swimme, Margie Abbott, Orla Hazra, Sarbmeet Kanwal, Matthew Fox, Clifford Berrien, and many others!

1. Introducing the New Cosmology

2. Applying the New Cosmology

3. Deeptime Leadership Practicum