With Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, professor and founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies; Luisah Teish, author and Ifa-Orisha priestess; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and global indigenous leader.
Brian Swimme is a renowned cosmologist on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program, and author of The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry) andThe Universe Is a Green Dragon.
A growing global consensus is emerging that this moment of planetary breakdown can transform into breakthrough. From scientists to shamans, this crisis is being recognized as a crisis of cosmology — of the guiding cultural narratives whose stories must also now transform because “worldviews create worlds,” as Richard Tarnas puts it. How can diverse cultures’ cosmologies illuminate these breakthroughs for a radical evolutionary transformation?
Author Richard Tarnas suggests that the “disenchanted objectivist world view of modernity that underlies the present crisis is in the process of transcending itself.” That paradigm is becoming a more inclusive cosmology that embraces the creative complexity, aliveness and “ensoulment” inherent in the web of life. He also draws on suggestive evidence that planetary alignments correspond to large-scale human behavior, archetypal cycles that echo and build on prior periods of revolutionary transformation.
Luisah Teish will share her Ifa-Orisha West African cosmology’s perspectives, including that of Oya, the Goddess of Catastrophe who shows how breakdown can lead to breakthrough through making basic structural changes.
Iroquois elder Oren Lyons will depict perspectives on the place of gratitude, ceremony, clear thinking and peacemaking from the Iroquois and other indigenous traditions.
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
