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Saturday Talk: Cosmogenesis:  A Dialogue

Join Cosmologist Brian Swimme, Ph.D., as he discusses his recently published book, Cosmogenesis, and elaborates on Teilhard de Chardin’s idea of the noosphere, understood as the sum knowledge and experience of all that humanity has imagined, created, and built though the ages.  The Noosphere can be seen as another layer to Earth’s many spheres, our collective planetary mind.  Dr. Swimme will engage the audience in a dialogue about the implications of these ideas for a generative future.

Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco. The department he co-founded, “Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness” (PCC), is the only graduate program in the Western world that places equal emphasis on contemporary science, indigenous spirituality, classical philosophy, and feminist thought for its Masters and Doctoral programs. He and his colleagues at CIIS created this program in order to re-imagine the human species as a mutually enhancing member of the Earth community. The author of many books, Dr. Swimme’s work, both as a writer and a teacher, is committed to shaping the leadership necessary for profound, progressive transformation of social institutions and individual consciousness in service to a thriving planet.