Cosmogenesis: The Universal Creation Story
A VIA Webinar
What’s all this about Cosmogenesis? Join Veriditas founder Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress in conversation with Brian Thomas Swimme as they discuss the Story of the Universe and how our own life path plays a part in its direction. Inspired by the work of Thomas Berry, Brian contextualizes the 13.7 billion year trajectory of the universe and considers how we can return to a vibrant community that transcends individual, human and geo-political boundaries.
In this one-hour webinar, Lauren and Brian consider how the archetype of the labyrinth can serve as a divine blueprint that can transform human consciousness individually and in community. As Lauren writes in Walking a Sacred Path, “The labyrinth offers a spiritual exercise that becomes the path of life. It allows the wandering soul to find a way to center, to find a way home."
Your Instructor
Brian Thomas Swimme is the Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics. Swimme is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He is co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a ten-year collaboration with cultural historian, Thomas Berry. Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe. Most recently he co-wrote and hosted the 60-minute film Journey of the Universe, broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide.