Some thoughts on ‘Deep Time’ and Green Spirituality by Chris Holmes

The wonderful GreenSpirit Walking Break in late Spring of 2022 provided a happy coincidence for me. Our location at Monckton Wyld was very close to Dorset’s fascinating ‘Jurassic’ coast, and came just as I was reading the final chapter of ‘Otherlands’. In this superb book, the palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Thomas Halliday takes the reader back to specific times and places over the past 550 million years of Earth’s history (the period of complex multi-cellular life and just one eighth of the total 4.6 billion). The Dorset coast, ‘Otherlands’ and walking in Nature with fellow GreenSpirits (plus mainly sunny weather) made me feel very open to all that ‘Deep Time’ offered, open to the astonishing journey that the Earth has been on. There is a real joy in knowing one is part of something so magnificent – but in what way is it ‘spiritual’? The following paragraphs will, hopefully, help to explain.

Some thoughts on ‘Deep Time’ and Green Spirituality by Chris Holmes2022-11-07T08:40:13+00:00

My Green Spiritual Journey #9 – ‘A Life of Two Halves’ by Mary Jo Radcliffe

I was born in London 10 days after war was declared into a very ancient traditional Catholic family. After 2 months my elder brother and I were sent with a very strict nanny, to a deaf Grandfather in Yorkshire. Obedience and fear were born. In January 1942 we came back to Stanmore to find another brother had arrived. Here bombs, air raids and gas masks accompanied by Catholic prayers were the pattern of a fear filled life though nothing was spoken of.

My Green Spiritual Journey #9 – ‘A Life of Two Halves’ by Mary Jo Radcliffe2022-06-16T13:35:33+00:00

Music – Luminosity – Review

The performance of this piece of music in October 2021 in London was inspired by the book "The Universe is a Green Dragon" by Brian Swimme. Therefore, it’s all about the amazing unfolding of the universe from the big bang to the present day.

Music – Luminosity – Review2022-04-20T07:30:27+00:00

A Cosmic Walk Down Under

Catherine Hutchison writes about a workshop she attended on the Universe Story (the story as revealed by Science from the Big Bang to the present day) in Australia and why understanding the Universe Story is so important for our human evolution.

A Cosmic Walk Down Under2022-05-11T18:43:37+00:00

‘From our Feet to our Heart: The Cosmic Walk Adventure’ by Erna Colebrook

The concept of the Cosmic Walk was the brainchild of Sister Miriam MacGillis of Genesis Farm in New Jersey USA after she read The Universe Story by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry (1992) which has the beguiling subtitles of “From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era” and “A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos”.

‘From our Feet to our Heart: The Cosmic Walk Adventure’ by Erna Colebrook2022-05-11T18:44:18+00:00
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