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A major evolutionary transition is beginning to unfold on earth. Individuals are emerging who are choosing to dedicate their lives to consciously advancing the evolutionary process. They see that their lives are an important part of the great evolutionary process that has produced the universe and the life within it, and they realize that they have a significant role to play. Keep Reading
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A short article about evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson's ambitious plan to salvage the integrity of higher education. Keep Reading
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Brian Swimme has been a student of Teilhard de Chardin's work for many years. Himself a scientist with an abiding interest in the interface of science and spirituality, Swimme's own passion and understanding have been deeply influenced by Teilhard's ideas. Keep Reading
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Like Teilhard de Chardin, Bruteau believes that we are at a unique juncture in history where, perhaps for the first time, evolution will not be primarily physical in nature but rather will be noetic—a transformation or mutation of consciousness. And human beings are in a crucial position. For in order to take this next evolutionary step, she tells us, we must actually become conscious participants in the unfolding and direction of the evolutionary process itself. Keep Reading
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Evolution is a multidimensional business—its movements painted in the broadest strokes across the contours of the cosmos, yet mirrored in the subtleties of each human soul. And indeed, a growing number of people—from scientists to mystics, from futurists to psychologists—are telling us that it is in the human soul that the responsibility for the next step in life's unfolding lies. Understanding this biggest of pictures, and our place in it, has never seemed more crucial—or more spiritually relevant. Keep Reading
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"I’m speaking about those individuals at the edge who want to catalyze a revolution in consciousness and culture, a revolution that will be able to create dynamic new structures that enable a new future to emerge. I believe such a revolution would have to be based upon the most important scientific, historical, cultural, and spiritual discovery of the last three hundred years: evolution." Keep Reading
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Ever since the Copernican revolution, the battle lines between science and religion have been drawn. In succeeding generations, science and religion have been depicted as two cultural juggernauts slugging it out to establish their ideas as the dominant worldview. This book by integral philosopher Ken Wilber offers an intriguing attempt at finding the common foundations between science and religion, sense and soul. Keep Reading
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Two evangelists of evolutionary spirituality - Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow - are carrying the message of science and spirit to grassroots Christianity and beyond. Keep Reading
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The Great Turning is an essential resource for those who understand this need and are prepared to engage what Thomas Berry calls the Great Work. It cuts through the complexity of our time to illuminate a simple, but elegant truth. We humans live by stories. We are held captive to the ways of Empire by a cultural trance of our own creation maintained by stories that deny the higher possibilities of our human nature—including our capacities for compassion, cooperation, responsible self-direction, and self-organizing partnership. Keep Reading
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"It sets forth a vision of the vast transformational enterprise of the next millennium, and it seeks to discover the design of evolution inherent in all nature with which we can consciously cooperate to guide our actions." ~Barbara Marx Hubbard Keep Reading
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"To understand the meaning of our crises, it is necessary to view them with "evolutionary eyes"... Keep Reading
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Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness," a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the "game." Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress -- a move toward empathy -- is our only hope. Keep Reading
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What is our cosmic story? In the last 100 years, science has provided more information on life than in all of recorded history. But what are we to do with that information? Cosmologist Brian Swimme explains why we need a new cosmic story that explains what we now know about the universe, and how that story can provide a pathway into the future of a vibrant life. Keep Reading
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Spoken word poet and social justice activist Drew Dellinger reads his poem, "Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe." Keep Reading
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A short clip by eco-philospher Joanna Macy from her DVD "The Work That Reconnects." Joanna shares about the concept of a Great Turning. Keep Reading
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This video puts words spoken or written by Thomas Berry together with photographs and music. Keep Reading
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Rev. Michael Dowd, author of "Thank God for Evolution" explains the distinction between private revelation such those put forward by individual Biblical characters including Moses and the Apostle Paul, and public revelations about God or Ultimate Reality as observed by millions in the sacred process of scientific inquiry through new eyes ranging from microscopes to telescopes. Keep Reading
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Rev. Dowd introduces the idea of living in evolutionary integrity by understanding our human instincts as our unchosen nature. Keep Reading
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A half century ago, Paul MacLean introduced the idea that the human brain consists of three main parts, and that the parts of our "Triune Brain" correlate to the time sequence of their evolutionary emergence: reptilian, paleo-mammalian, and neo-mammalian. Since then, scien-tists have recognized that there is a fourth and far more recently evolved mammalian structure, which is profoundly manifest in the human brain: the prefrontal cortex, or frontal lobes. In this video Michael Dowd presents a brief overview of each of the components of our Quadrune Brain. Keep Reading
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Michael Dowd speaks at Renaissance Unity in Detroit, Michigan, one of America's largest progressive churches. Sunday Sermon, "The Gospel According to Science: Evolutionary Good News," September 28, 2008 Keep Reading