Journey of the Universe - Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker [epub]

This volume tells the epic story of the universe from an inspired new perspective, weaving the findings of modern science together with enduring wisdom found in the humanistic traditions of the West, China, India, and indigenous peoples.

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Review

"An expanded creation story of the cosmos but an expanded look into the evolution of our own consciousness. I cannot imagine a more urgent book to read as we enter this revolutionary moment on the planet. It is an illuminated manuscript, a prayer book of wonder and awe for our time." --Terry Tempest Williams, author of "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"--Terry Tempest Williams (02/24/2011)

"What's most striking about Swimme and Tucker's work is a simple but beautiful assumption: a cosmological orientation opens the human mind to wonder, gratitude, humility, and creativity."--Mitchell Thomashow, "Orion"--Mitchell Thomashow "Orion "

"Strikingly, . . . the co-authors managed to fit 14 billion years of grandeur along with humanity's most fundamental questions into small spaces. . . . Perfectly tailored for classroom use . . . offering a common ground for discussion among people of myriad points of view."--Julianne Lutz Warren, "Journal of Environmental Studies and Science"--Julianne Lutz Warren "Journal of Environmental Studies and Science "

"For those of us enmeshed in symbolic consciousness, this is just the story we need to hear, loud and clear. It helps us understand how we happened to be here, and, more important, why."--Bill McKibben, author of "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" and "The End of Nature"

--Bill McKibben (09/16/2010)

About the Author

Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Mary Evelyn Tucker is senior lecturer and research scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School. She is co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale.