Journey of the Universe | Brian Swimme | Talks at Google

[@FrancieWhite]

This man is a preciousness of soul teaching science and inevitably the meaning of being alive. If only our school system could adopt his and now our cosmology. We love you, Brian!

[@JBNemeth]

Just coming across this now.... Absolutely so! I saw him in person probably 17 years ago at a workshop he was presenting in Billings MT. The most moving moment for me was his description of standing before a rock formation in England and reaching out and touching it, feeling as though he was one with it. That touched my soul, and I felt such appreciation for him and his clear vision of life and living in harmony with Creation. We split up into pairs, but because there was an odd number of people, I was in a group of three, two nuns and me. It was one of the most catalytic happenings of my life, as they seemed to rely on me and my view of the question posed to us. Theirs was a limited sort of view, but mine was more expansive. I do remember a similar kind of reaction to the child saying he new taht already...some of the things he was saying, I said inside, "doesn't everyone know that?" He has indeed been a gift of insight into living and seeing our world with eyes of wonder.

[@purandouglass8169]

Swimme is the best at smashing psychological limitations and Im not even sure he knows how good he really is.

[@adekroll7859]

I am soooo in awe of how this is a living ongoing experience that we participate in--we need to know what it means to be human--our place as human. Wow!

[@glendabourgeois5938]

This presentation feeds my spirit. Thank you, Professor Swimme.

[@marcvwest]

Love to see a conversation between Brian Swimme, Richard Tarnas, Duane Elgin, Susan Blackmore, Amit Gaswami and Richard Dawkins.

[@ewegg1271]

Swimme and Tarnas have a video together on 'archetypal view' channel. Maybe you've already watched it. I love the idea they allude to, that we are by no means the end product. We are evolution in process. I think the best question one could pose to oneself/meditate on is 'what is true human work?' If you want to get into writing or even finding out where you think your place is in society and as such, the universe as a whole. That would be a great place to put pen to paper.

[@victorjcano]

"I love the idea they allude to, that we are by no means the end product." me too , how about: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2K9eJaNfLergck @@ewegg1271

[@anthonyleonard]

Awesome perspective! Thanks for sharing it Brian.

[@gitasn1769]

what a wisdom he is sharing to humanity. He is like ramanujam of India

[@johndonohue8855]

It is beautiful that you still have such awe.

[@kevinhou3299]

Be respectful and grateful for life and the universe even though we understand very, very little

[@frankvazquez5974]

Great lecture. If you guys are looking for a higher theory/framework for understanding consciousness I might suggest you look at the ancient Indian knowledge - they got it mapped out fairly well. You'll even find correlations to an understanding of dark matter in there and no suggestion of science as a problem as you suggest here with "religion". Despite all these discoveries in physics, it seems western academia is still blindsided by its own history.

[@donaldmagill4296]

+Frank Vazquez we are only "blindsided" by our own restricted worldwide he is far out, but in a good way each of us garner's the information we desire please share a link to this "ancient Indian knowledge" "religion" is not acceptable but you can't take away human "faith" you can blame life's last big twist on hominid's genes for that you know the one that gave homo sapiens grow-able parallel processing power we start each day fresh and quiescent then grow as many synaptic connections as we need for our imaginations

[@waterkingdavid]

Look let it be plainly stated. It is an unsaid reality that absolutely any and every way of thinking that in any way suggests anything other than life in a universe made of dead matter and without any purpose has been utterly rejected within western academia. Hence people like Steiner, Jung etc. are unheard of in western academia. When the Brits took over India they realized that the compassion of the Indians they conquered put their presumed superior Christian love to utter shame. What did they do? They made sure Indian religion was viewed as at best quaint. At worst superstitious. But in all cases inferior to western thinking. The great god of western philosophy of course is Kant. A white supremacist racist through and through. If you have any doubts about this do some research into it. No the west has a huge amount to answer for make no mistake.

[@frankvazquez5974]

I'm not sure what your getting at exactly here, (i.e. "blindsided by our own restricted worldwide" make absolutely no sense) though I understand on the prior comments about brit domination in India and their whole re-education program to undo traditional knowledge bases. Even the most "educated" in the west are unaware of how programmed their reality is/has been. As for a link to "ancient Indian knowledge", it is hard to bring an ocean into a brief facebook comment. Those sincere enough will dig - though be warned, plenty of garbage out there in this realm as well...

[@donaldmagill4296]

David Watermeyer "No the west has a huge amount to answer for make no mistake." Our actions are indelible. Do you believe that "I" am responsible? If the answer is yes, then how many years into the past do "I" have to pay? The "west" is a large group. I insure that my path, is the path of light. The actions I take cause the least harm to life as possible. This "moment" of creation in which we exist is ever changing. What path will satisfy "a huge amount"? "Look let it be plainly stated. It is an unsaid reality that absolutely any and every way of thinking that in any way suggests anything other than life in a universe made of dead matter and without any purpose has been utterly rejected within western academia." By whom? The sliding scale of belief: 0= no belief in an omnipresent "being" 7= absolute belief in an omnipresent "being" I vote 0 Now as for faith: 100% homo sapiens= yes (at least at birth)

[@billdanosky]

Does it make any sense that there are only two forces: Attraction (Positive charged) and Repulsion (Negative charged)? The positive force accumulates and attracts things together, forms planets, stars, etc. The negative, repulsion force is what flings the galaxies apart and creates the space between things. Scientists would have to fill in the blanks on how it's balanced, whether ribbons of plasma would be arcing across the universe (as + and - connect and stop) but there are pictures of space that look that way. Maybe effects of that cause changes in who-knows-what. Sure, this is too simple to be true, but I'm a novice, so novel theories appeal to me.

[@SpeaksZen]

Bravo!

[@kindredspirit6654]

Assessing the precariousness of Life on earth and it's extremely insecure location in a highly active part of the galaxy and solar system, it is no wonder our species has an extreme urgency to build spaceships and find new habitable planets. If we don't, we may not be around for long.

[@Jobby1975]

Excellent, however, when you say "England".... it upsets the Scottish, the Welsh and parts of Ireland. The British Isles are not England alone. Otherwise, great stuff, thanks.

[@nowar7789]

humanity is ending possibly too.

[@heinrichkn6475]

Is mass extinction the price a planet pays in order to bring forth intelligent life?

[@hydrorix1]

Brian, you lost me when you mentioned "we" were causing the largest mass extinction event in 65 million years. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the Pleistocene Extinction Event? You know when the Mega Fauna such as wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers went extinct. Your might want to reference Randall Carlson for clarification re: climatic change...