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Powers of the Universe: CENTRATION

8/19/2019

Centration is the coming together in one life of the entire evolutionary development.
Evolutionary Cosmologist Brian Swimme writes that “the cosmological Powers of the Universe are coursing through us moment by moment. To become aware of these powers is to touch the Source of Life.”
-The Powers of The Universe

Click here for a liturgy celebrating Centration.
(Prepared by Gale Thackrey)

"The cosmological powers of the Universe are coursing through us moment by moment. To become aware of these powers is to touch the source of life,” -Brian Swimme

The Sacred Wisdom of Honey Bees

7/22/2019

A Bee Prayer
Winged spirit of sweetness, I call on you.
Teach me the ways of transformation and fertilization,
The path from pollen to sweetest honey.
Teach me to taste the essence of each place I alight,
Carrying that essence with me to continue creation’s cycle.
Teach me the ways of hope, reminding me the ways of hope,
Reminding me that what seems impossible may yet be achieved.
Flitting tears of the gods, draw me ever closer to the wisdom hidden within beauty.
Give me flight and sunlight, passion and productivity,
Cooperation with those around me, and sharpened strength to defend my home.
May I ever spiral out from my heart, searching for what I need,
And return there once again to turn those lessons into nourishment.
Bee spirit, I call to you. (borrowed from A Book of Shadows)

Stay Buzzing,
Nick Polizzi
Founder, The Sacred Science

Dance of the Honey Bee

7/15/2019

Ellen Litwiller and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, has been a companion to human beings for thousands of years. As we’ve long welcomed the nourishment of honey and have come to rely on this insect for pollination, we’ve learned ways that we might nourish the honey bee in return—by providing abundant habitat and tending to hives. More

Powers of the Universe: RADIANCE

6/16/2019

Note: In the Powers of the Universe, cosmologist Brian Swimme provides a synthesis of scientific and spiritual worldviews, empowering people to rediscover and remember who they truly are in the greater story of life, and situate the larger challenges of our day as part of the journey of the Universe. This view leads to a positive, life-affirming vision of human potential, one that calls for a new level of ecological responsibility, wisdom, and relatedness. In the process, Swimme demonstrates how science and spiritual traditions can find common ground in a worldview that is evolutionary, scientific, and filled with reverence and wonder. (ecopsychology.org)

"The cosmological powers of the Universe are coursing through us moment by moment. To become aware of these powers is to touch the source of life,” -Brian Swimme

"Radiance may be the sweetest of the powers, but that doesn’t lessen its immense importance and complexity. We wouldn’t be here at all if it weren’t for the most radiant of all local beings: the sun. She, blazing wildly from the depths of her fiery furnace, sets our standard. She also has a lot of company. Since the primeval flaring forth, everything in the universe has been giving off light, in the visible spectrum and out, in the form of electromagnetic and quantum energy. ‘Radiance is the primary language of the universe, the way the universe communicates with itself.’ The way that it speaks to us. The sun and the earth, with all its emerging forms and beings, are part of the cosmos’s ongoing conversation. "

- Betsey Crawford
The Soul of the Earth

Click here for a liturgy celebrating Radiance.

Powers of the Universe: CATACLYSM

5/19/2019

Note: In the Powers of the Universe, cosmologist Brian Swimme provides a synthesis of scientific and spiritual worldviews, empowering people to rediscover and remember who they truly are in the greater story of life, and situate the larger challenges of our day as part of the journey of the Universe. This view leads to a positive, life-affirming vision of human potential, one that calls for a new level of ecological responsibility, wisdom, and relatedness. In the process, Swimme demonstrates how science and spiritual traditions can find common ground in a worldview that is evolutionary, scientific, and filled with reverence and wonder. (ecopsychology.org)

"The cosmological powers of the Universe are coursing through us moment by moment. To become aware of these powers is to touch the source of life,” -Brian Swimme

The Power of CATACLYSM
Cataclysm is as essential to reality as emergence. The destructions, degradations and disasters of the universe are part of the story of its life, a movement from a complex to a simple state that allows for the emergence of newness.

Click here for a liturgy celebrating CATACLYSM.

For the next level of growth, of deepening, something has to wake us up, shake us up. It may take a tornado to blow us all the way to Oz where the greatest gifts await us. Jean Houston says that the call of this time of Cataclysm is to “radical reinvention” in order to “speciate,” to become a deepening spirit of the earth for her new emergence. Never before in history have so many devoted themselves to develop fully, to regard problems as opportunities in work clothes. Encouraging us that we have just the right gifts on just the right planet to bring this new earth community to life, Jean adds, “You are blessed to be alive at this time."
(From: kreativefire.com)

Powers of the Universe: EMERGENCE

3/17/2019

Note: In the Powers of the Universe, cosmologist Brian Swimme provides a synthesis of scientific and spiritual worldviews, empowering people to rediscover and remember who they truly are in the greater story of life, and situate the larger challenges of our day as part of the journey of the Universe. This view leads to a positive, life-affirming vision of human potential, one that calls for a new level of ecological responsibility, wisdom, and relatedness. In the process, Swimme demonstrates how science and spiritual traditions can find common ground in a worldview that is evolutionary, scientific, and filled with reverence and wonder. (ecopsychology.org)

"The cosmological powers of the Universe are coursing through us moment by moment. To become aware of these powers is to touch the source of life,” -Brian Swimme

Third Power: EMERGENCE
the power of creativity and how the Universe transcends itself

We’ve discovered that the universe is not a place; it’s a STORY, A STORY of an irreversible sequence of emergent events. For a long time, we thought the universe was an established realm that had its major creativity happening only at the beginning of time. Now we understand that the universe is an ONGOING CREATIVE EVENT. Stars came forth, galaxies came forth, planets have emerged, life burst into existence. This power of emergence could also be called ONGOING CREATIVITY. In some ways, it’s the greatest discovery in the history of the human sciences—that the universe as a whole, and each being in it, is permeated with the power of EMERGENCE.

Click here for a liturgy celebrating EMERGENCE.

The 'Great Work' of the religious traditions of our time...

3/20/2018

“In our contemplation of how tragic moments of disintegration over the course of the centuries were followed by immensely creative moments of renewal, we receive our great hope for the future. To initiate and guide this next creative moment of the story of the Earth is the Great Work of the religions of the world as we move on into the future.”
-Thomas Berry, “Religion in the Twenty-first Century,” in The Sacred Universe, 87
(Source: http://thomasberry.org/quotes)

In this book, Thomas Berry makes a persuasive case for an inter-religious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. More

Commemorate and Celebrate

6/20/2017

"The universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.
- Thomas Berry, “Returning to Our Native Place,” in The Dream of the Earth

The future awaits...

5/20/2017

“Evolution means that nature does not operate according to fixed laws but by the dynamic interplay of law, chance, and deep time; that is, one cannot understand natural processes apart from developmental categories. The interaction of forces creates a dynamic process of unfolding life, pointing to the fact that nature is incomplete; there are no fixed essences. Instead, nature is consistently oriented toward new and complex life.”

― Ilia Delio, From Teilhard to Omega: Co-creating an Unfinished Universe

Earth Economy

4/20/2017

“[O]ur human economy is derivative from the Earth economy. To glory in a rising Gross Domestic Product with an irreversibly declining Earth Product is an economic absurdity.”

― Thomas Berry, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos