The Living Universe
The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? by Duane Elgin, with a foreword by Deepak Chopra, brings together extraordinary evidence from cosmology, biology, and physics to show that the universe is not dead but uniquely alive. Traditionally, science has regarded the universe as made up of inert matter and […]
Initiation into a Living Planet
In this in-depth essay, Charles Eisenstein asks us not to get too caught up in the scientific definition of life, but instead to feel into the truth that the planet is a living system and to order our priorities accordingly. The essay explores our relationship to climate change through this lens, inviting readers to move […]
Changing of the Gods
The Laszlo Institute
The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research fosters open transdisciplinary inquiry into current science-based conceptions of the human being and the world. The Institute brings together open-minded scientists and lay people from all parts of the world to develop emerging ideas and communicate them to people in their particular fields as well as to society […]
The Story of GAIA
The Story of Gaia by Jude Currivan, Ph.D., explores our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity. Currivan reveals that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we and the whole world fundamentally are—our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic […]
Living vs Dead Universe
We cannot understand who we are on our life’s journey without first understanding the universe we live in. Our future pivots on how we answer the question of whether we regard the universe as dead or alive. A growing body of evidence points toward regarding the universe as “alive,” and there is a meaningful distinction […]