A reader of the blog just connected me to this site.
I have been a fan of Brain Swimmes work since I first started college. My first class at Evergreen State College was a class called sacred places, which had a serius impact on me obviously! Our first text book for that class was Swimmes classic universe story.
This video is a great introduction to new cosmology.
http://www.global-mindshift.org/memes/swimmeseries/step1-2.asp?bandwidth=high_video
Swimmes work is important for people interesting in bioregional animism because it gives us an understanding of the importance of the universe story, our cosmology. Now Swimme is not an animist, but much of what he says my inspire your own animism cosmology as it has mine. In animism we see many diverse cosmo,logies interweaving with animism. We see toaist cosmologies, christian cosmologies, we see new age cosmologies, indigenous ancient cosmologies, we see islamic and buddhist cosmologies and so on. For those of us that are steeped in modern society today the work that Swimme has done to elucidate a modern cosmology may help fill in the blanks for us who are actively discovering an animist cosmological vision.
Enjoy!
I have been a fan of Brain Swimmes work since I first started college. My first class at Evergreen State College was a class called sacred places, which had a serius impact on me obviously! Our first text book for that class was Swimmes classic universe story.
This video is a great introduction to new cosmology.
http://www.global-mindshift.org/memes/swimmeseries/step1-2.asp?bandwidth=high_video
Swimmes work is important for people interesting in bioregional animism because it gives us an understanding of the importance of the universe story, our cosmology. Now Swimme is not an animist, but much of what he says my inspire your own animism cosmology as it has mine. In animism we see many diverse cosmo,logies interweaving with animism. We see toaist cosmologies, christian cosmologies, we see new age cosmologies, indigenous ancient cosmologies, we see islamic and buddhist cosmologies and so on. For those of us that are steeped in modern society today the work that Swimme has done to elucidate a modern cosmology may help fill in the blanks for us who are actively discovering an animist cosmological vision.
Enjoy!
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Someone invited me to the PeaceNext networking site and I created a Bioregional Animism group there, LLB. Maybe you'd like to join PeaceNext and promote BA there?
http://www.peacenext.org/group/bioregionalanimism
I checked it out, I like the site!
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