The Sacred Cosmological Dynamic of Loss

This is a compilation of a few clips from Brian Swimme's video #5 of his DVD series "Canticle to the Cosmos" (1990), which is available at http://www.brianswimme.org/store/product.asp?pID=17&cID=1 . The title of the video #5 is "Destruction and Loss", and it is based on Thomas Berry's Principle 5th principle for a functional cosmology ( see http://pagaian.org/book/appendix-a) which states that "The Universe has a violent as well as a harmonious aspect, but it is consistently creative in the larger arc of its development." This excerpt is used in the PaGaian Cosmology (http://pagaian.org) Summer Solstice Preparation class - both on the ground at Bru-na-BigTree Australia and on-line ... Summer Solstice being the time of the turning into the dark part of the year's cycle, the peaking and harvest of Creativity, of Life.

Brian also speaks in the video #5 (not in this clip) of engaging with your "enemy" - with what you perceive to be your enemy. This could be something that you think is holding you back from being fully who you might be - but which may actually be the pathway to that wholeness of being: Summer Solstice is the season for engaging with these energies - for coming to Wholeness/ Fullness of Being, as Sun's energy peaks.

P.S. Brian uses the word "God" a bit in this clip ... he doesn't usually, but it seemed necessary in the context.

I have permission to publish sections of Brian Swimme's DVD's here on YouTube. Enjoy! I do advise buying the whole set. And getting his books.

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Education

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• cosmology
• Brian Swimme
• loss
• death
• thermodynamics
• universe
• Summer Solstice
• evolutionary spirituality
• Bread of Life
• sacred feast
• Gaia
• eco-spirituality
• PaGaian.