I just shared this via email with the Center for Ecozoic Studies group I’m working with this year. CES will soon be publishing an issue of their journal (that will also be available in print as it’s a special issue), that focuses on Brian Swimme’s new book, Cosmogenesis. I have a piece in it and it’s such an honor to be included with the other contributors. I shared this piece because I sense that your way of describing how humans came to be will resonate with Brian’s articulation of cosmogenesis, how all of us came to be - gifts from dying stars as the ever expanding cosmos continues to create life even while we face such devastation and losses. I find this extraordinarily hopeful on the one hand, and on the other simply miraculous.
It’s amazing! Brian’s work, and just who he is as a person, has influenced my work since I first met him in the late 1980s, when he was working with Thomas Berry. He sparkles!
Reminds me a bit of learning about colors. In Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein she talks about ancient Greek and other cultures not having words for "blue" - a whole section about dye and color and textiles.
This also brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore's distinction between reciting and rehearsing what we read - in an effort to be less extractive of ideas and more relational 💃
All very true. I think about the material sensuality of our bodily interaction with the world constantly. I also can't help but imagine that our thoughts and feelings are also haptic in their formation as all this stimuli is received, processed, integrated, retrieved, expressed and transformed through intricate chemical and electrical dances throughout the whole body and all the organisms that inhabit it . What would you say?
I just shared this via email with the Center for Ecozoic Studies group I’m working with this year. CES will soon be publishing an issue of their journal (that will also be available in print as it’s a special issue), that focuses on Brian Swimme’s new book, Cosmogenesis. I have a piece in it and it’s such an honor to be included with the other contributors. I shared this piece because I sense that your way of describing how humans came to be will resonate with Brian’s articulation of cosmogenesis, how all of us came to be - gifts from dying stars as the ever expanding cosmos continues to create life even while we face such devastation and losses. I find this extraordinarily hopeful on the one hand, and on the other simply miraculous.
Thank you Susan and that sounds like a book I must read!!
It’s amazing! Brian’s work, and just who he is as a person, has influenced my work since I first met him in the late 1980s, when he was working with Thomas Berry. He sparkles!
Yes!
🙏🙏🙏 for 'the funk and texture' delivered to my tablet!
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Oh this is beautiful Sophie, beautiful.
We are life emerging.
Thank you.
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Wow..
Just....wow
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Beautiful, Sophie 🦠☀️🧡
Reminds me a bit of learning about colors. In Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein she talks about ancient Greek and other cultures not having words for "blue" - a whole section about dye and color and textiles.
This also brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore's distinction between reciting and rehearsing what we read - in an effort to be less extractive of ideas and more relational 💃
All very true. I think about the material sensuality of our bodily interaction with the world constantly. I also can't help but imagine that our thoughts and feelings are also haptic in their formation as all this stimuli is received, processed, integrated, retrieved, expressed and transformed through intricate chemical and electrical dances throughout the whole body and all the organisms that inhabit it . What would you say?