
Aquinas on Consciousness, Cosmos, Creativity & Enlarging Our Souls
Aquinas, like most indigenous and pre-modern thinkers, and unlike the human-centered philosophers of the modern and industrial era, begins his philosophy with the universe. Our
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Aquinas, like most indigenous and pre-modern thinkers, and unlike the human-centered philosophers of the modern and industrial era, begins his philosophy with the universe. Our

In yesterday’s DM we spoke of reintroducing a sense of the cosmos. To say that we need to “reintroduce” is to say that we have lost the

Reintroducing a cosmic awareness to the way we look at the world and develop our work worlds and institutions is basic to our survival as

Nineteenth-century French poet and translator, Gerard de Nerval, had this to say about the modern consciousness that so readily left out the universe: Free thinker,

Is the Cosmos an Original Blessing? I sort of think so. And I also think that every human being should be aware of and convinced of this.

Another reason why the Cosmos is on my mind lately is that, as I shared in my class with Brian Swimme recently, Rabbi Heschel makes

Another reason the cosmos is on my mind these days is that I am currently co-teaching a class through Shift Network with cosmologist Brian Swimme

Another response to our recent Cosmic Mass at the POWR in Chicago came from an older man who came up to me afterwards, said this

One reason the cosmos is on my mind is that we just celebrated a “Cosmic Mass” (TCM) in honor of the Sacredness of Earth (and

This past Saturday morning at 2:30 am, I returned from the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago where, among other things, I and a team
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