Direct from Chartres: Embracing the Unfolding Universe

with Brian Swimme and Lauren Artress

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Join us virtually from Chartres on Pilgrimage with Brian Swimme— Embracing the Unfolding Universe, hosted by Lauren Artress. Sign up to receive video recordings from four days of morning meditations with Lauren Artress and Rob Hodges on cello, talks by Brian Thomas Swimme, discussions between Brian and Lauren, and video vignettes around Chartres village with Lars Howlett including, for the first time, the Fall Harvest Festival! Watch the journey unfold at your own time and pace. Questions? Email [email protected]



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Brian Thomas Swimme
Brian Thomas Swimme

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.


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