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Brian Swimme has created an interesting career and body of work by attempting to construct a scientifically informed eco-theology, or a kind of cosmological pantheism. This book is what he calls his “auto-cosmology,” an intellectual autobiography really, about his journey from a professor of theoretical mathematics and physics to spiritual storyteller. While the book is a touch self aggrandizing at times, I found some nuggets of wisdom & insight.
HillsAndHamletsBookshop I would give this an actual thumbs up but only for a very specific reader: if you‘re interested in the last century or so effort among a certain strain of thinkers to combine cutting edge science/evolution/cosmology into what most would call today a new age spiritual worldview then this is very interesting. It traces Swimme‘s ideas through the intellectual heritage especially of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry. 2y
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