663. Brian Thomas Swimme - a podcast by Rick Archer

Brian Thomas Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. From the publication of The Universe Is a Green Dragon to the Emmy Award–winning PBS documentary Journey of the Universe, Swimme has articulated the cosmology of a creative universe, one in which human intelligence plays an essential role.

For three decades as a professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, he taught evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the humanities. Currently he is director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a nonprofit public benefit organization.A detailed description of his books and media works can be found at storyoftheuniverse.org.
About the documentary, Journey of the Universe.Human Energy presents Story of the Noosphere

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Interview recorded September 18, 2022Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.




YouTube Video Chapters:00:00:00 - Introduction to Brian Thomas Swimme and Cosmology
00:03:59 - Two Meanings of Cosmologist00:08:00 - The Relationship Between Human Mind and the Universe
00:12:49 - The Power of Scientific Knowledge in Understanding Ourselves00:16:55 - The Color of the Universe
00:20:55 - The Nature of Laws and the Mystery of the Universe00:25:36 - The Ontology of Intelligence and Consciousness
00:29:10 - The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness and the Experience of Reality00:34:14 - The Ontological Connection between Individuals and the Universe
00:38:50 - The Interplay of Science and Spirituality00:42:17 - The Mystery of Mathematics and Science
00:46:22 - The Influence of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry00:50:12 - The Interdependence of Science and Spirituality
00:53:43 - The Noosphere: United Humanity and Earth's Evolution
00:58:46 - The Special Quality of Humanity and Symbolic Consciousness01:03:50 - The Dark Age and the Loss of Knowledge
01:07:45 - Ignorance of Extinction01:10:57 - Co-evolution of Technology and Spirituality
01:15:02 - Becoming beings who see the whole first01:19:50 - The Bhagavad Gita and Being Established in Action
01:23:55 - The Vast Intelligence Within You01:27:25 - The Noosphere in Action
01:32:05 - The Noosphere as a Collective Consciousness01:35:24 - Deepening Collective Intelligence
01:38:19 - The Dream of the Earth and Integral Ecology01:43:30 - Embracing Change: A Deep Change of Heart and Mind
01:46:42 - A Breaking of Symmetry in the Early Universe01:50:50 - The Incessant Creativity of the Universe
01:54:52 - Matter's Intrinsic Property of Self-Organization
01:59:13 - The Excitement of Matter and Spiritual Development02:02:39 - A Round-Trip from Tacoma to Berkeley

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