CIIS Faculty Publications
Title
The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
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Description
Communicating his ideas in the form of a classical dialogue between a youth and a wise elder, cosmologist Brian Swimme crafts a fascinating exploration into the creativity suffusing the universe. His explication of the fundamental powers of the cosmos is mystical and ecstatic and points directly to the need to activate one’s own creative powers.
ISBN
978-0939680146
Publication Date
6-1-1984
Publisher
Bear & Company
City
Rochester, Vermont
Keywords
Meditations; Gaia; Cosmology
Disciplines
Cosmology, Relativity, and Gravity | New Religious Movements
Recommended Citation
Swimme, Brian, "The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story" (1984). CIIS Faculty Publications. 55.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/55
Comments
Author: Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor of cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco. His department, "Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness" (PCC), is the only graduate program in the western world that places equal emphasis on contemporary science, indigenous spirituality, classical philosophy, and feminist thought for its masters and doctoral programs. He and his colleagues at CIIS have created this program in order to re-imagine the human species as a mutually enhancing member of the Earth community.
The heart of Swimme's work is his focus on knowledge that is transformative--of ourselves and of our civilization. His graduate program attracts intellectually engaged women and men who are in varying degrees dismayed by what they see happening in industrial societies and who are striving to find meaningful ways to develop their gifts to serve the future of the world.
Swimme's work joins with those scientists, scholars, and visionaries who recognize that the Earth community is facing an unprecedented evolutionary challenge, the most severe degradation of life in the last 65 million years. This multifaceted crisis requires a fundamental reorientation of our civilization, one in which a compassionate humanity becomes a mutually enhancing presence within Earth's complex systems of life. Cultural historian Thomas Berry, who is co-author of "The Universe Story", has called this task "the Great Work."