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The Story of the Noosphere - Hardcover
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by Brian Thomas Swimme (Author), Monica Deraspe-Bolles (Author)
The Story of the Noosphere is the latest edition of Brian Thomas Swimme's cosmological work. Together with philosopher Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, Swimme explores heredity, tools, reflective consciousness, communication, population, trade, cerebralization, and convergence across four eras of human history. Based on contemporary science and empirical data, the book challenges readers to move past Modernity's overemphasis on rationality and embrace the dynamism of imagination and reflection, into the noospheric era--the unification of humanity. The book has an accompanying YouTube series.
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RELIGION / Religion and Science
RELIGION / Philosophy
SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology
Cover design: Regina Gelfer
Cover art: Sebastian Swimme
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ISBN 978-1-62698-594-0
Author Biography
Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a public benefit non-profit that focuses on scientific and interdisciplinary research on the future of human collective consciousness. Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. With Mary Evelyn Tucker, he authored the book and film Journey of the Universe, www.journeyoftheuniverse.org.
Monica DeRaspe-Bolles is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a consultant at The Human Energy Project, Orinda, CA. With Brian Thomas Swimme and Devin O'Dea, she created the popular YouTube video series "Story of the Noosphere." She lives at Blueberry Front, Snohomish, WA, a research center for time-developmental cosmology.
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