Journey of the Universe Course begins tomorrow! 🌎

Journey of the Universe
With Sam King
Hosted by the Deeptime Network
March 25 - May 6, 2025
Tuesdays at 7 pm EDT

What can the Universe teach us about resilience through turbulent times?

Join our live immersion into Journey of the Universe to explore the epic story of cosmic evolution and your integral role in creating a more flourishing planetary future. 

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Upcoming Events

Youth Education and Planetary Ethics 
With Amanda Bennett Rivera 
The Spirituality and Sustainability Global Network
Wednesday, March 26 at 7:30 PM EDT

Amanda will share her experiences in youth education, exploring its intersection with ethics and environmental sustainability. Her work emphasizes how education can inspire future generations to become responsible stewards of the planet.

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The Sacred Universe Award
Saturday, March 29 | 10 am - 4 pm CDT
$100 
Scholarships Available

Join Sr. Gail Worcelo, Dr. Brian Swimme, and Dr. Louis Savary, recipient of the 2025 Sacred Universe Award, for a day of inspiration and connection. This prestigious award, first presented to Thomas Berry in 1993, honors individuals whose work fosters a deeper, mutually-enhancing relationship between humanity and the Earth. Register now to celebrate a legacy of brilliance, wisdom, and vision that continues to illuminate our path forward!

• How High is the Sky? A Celebration of Women Who Have Shaped Our Galactic Consciousness | Sr. Gail Worcelo
• The Cardisphere: God’s Great Evolutionary Experiment and Humanity’s Greatest Challenge | Dr. Louis Savary
• Cosmic Spirituality in an Expanding Universe | Dr. Brian Swimme

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The Pathless Path: Walking the Way of the Pilgrim in a Time between Worlds
In-Person Pilgrimage Retreat 
Pecos Canyon, New Mexico
May 20–26, 2025 

Inspired by reflections from Thomas from the “Thomas Berry Collected Thoughts Series” and from Teilhard de Chardin, this forthcoming pilgrimage will bring us into embodied presence with the psychic energies needed and infinitely available to walk humanity through the epochal shift in consciousness urging us through these times.

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Journey of the Universe in Pakistan

John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Sam King met with Naveed Atif and Mohammad Lajwar to discuss plans to expand the presence of Journey of the Universe in Pakistan. Lajwar has already dubbed the film into Urdu and facilitated five screenings at schools across the country.

Recent Event

Cosmic Walk
Yale Graduate Conference on Religion and Ecology
409 Prospect St, New Haven, CT, USA 06511
Friday, February 21st

Sam King led participants through the Cosmic Walk, an embodied ritual experience along a 138- foot rope marking the 13.8 billion year journey of the Universe. Created by Sr. Miriam MacGillis and scripted by Larry Edwards, the Cosmic Walk is designed to evoke conscious communion and care for our blue-green planetary home. 

The Graduate Conference on Religion and Ecology is a space for cross-cultural research and discourse around the emerging academic field and engaged moral force of religious environmentalism. 

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Children of the Universe Project

Sisters of Earth is offering a Children of the Universe Project to bring the new story and Thomas Berry's wisdom into work with children in the Americas and beyond. During the first phase of the project, participants will receive a packet of materials authored, edited and created by Sisters of Earth who have been deeply influenced by the new cosmology and teachings of Thomas Berry. During this first phase, mentors will be available to work one-on-one with participants as they begin this creative and integrative work. Thomas Berry spoke of a “functional cosmology” – a cosmology with many emanations of the great work, authentic to diverse contexts and situations. We picture Phase Two as a blossoming and sharing of practices in a mutually enhancing relationship among participants. SoE is seeking 50 educators for the project.

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Midweek Sanity Oasis: The Consolations of the Telescopic Perspective in Disorienting Times

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot as seen by the Voyager.
(Photograph courtesy of NASA.)

“It has been a difficult year — politically, personally. Through it all, I have found solace in taking a more telescopic view — not merely on the short human timescale of my own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.”

Click here to read the full reflection by Maria Popova!

With Jason Brown
Mepkin Abbey
April 7, 2025
Online

Jason Brown will speak with Sam King at the next Mepkin Abbey Forum for Contemplative Ecology. A Lecturer and Ecological Chaplain at Simon Fraser University, Jason teaches courses in comparative religion and ecological humanities for the department of Global Humanities and occasionally environmental ethics for the School of Resource and Environmental Management. Jason is a graduate of Yale School of the Environment.

Watch last month’s conversation with Sr. Kathleen Deignan here.

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“Why seashells resemble spiraling galaxies and the human heart”
By Kevin Dann. Nation of Change, March 14, 2025.

“A huge iceberg broke off Antarctica. What scientists found under it startled them”
By Dino Grandoni. The Washington Post, March 20, 2025.

“Archaeologists Find a Pharaoh’s Tomb, the First Since King Tut’s, Egypt Says - The New York Times”
By Alan Yuhas. The New York Times, February 21, 2025.

“Connecticut Families: New exhibit at Yale Peabody Museum shows the wonders of our brains”
By Sarah Cody. WTNH, February 27, 2025.

“Why black holes are more than 'cosmic vacuum cleaners': Short Wave”
By Regina G. Barber, Rachel Carlson, and Rebecca Ramirez. National Public Radio, February 4, 2025. 

“A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal”
By Mike Cummings. Yale News, March 11, 2025.

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