The Story of the Noosphere: Brian Thomas Swimme and Monica DeRaspe-Bolles

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In this episode, we enter a conversation at the edge of human evolution, where science and spirituality converge.

Our guests, cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme and scholar Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, co-authors of The Story of the Noosphere, invite us to imagine humanity’s next great unfolding: the birth of a planetary mind.

Together we explore what Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere. Swimme and DeRaspe-Bolles describe this as the time when the universe begins to awaken to itself through us.

Our conversation touches on the nature of convergence: the universe’s movement toward communion rather than collapse; and on allurement, that subtle power of attraction that draws atoms, stars, and people into deeper relationship. We ask what it means to participate consciously in this convergence, and how imagination might guide the emergence of a more unified, compassionate world.

If you’ve ever sensed that your own life is part of a larger unfolding story and that consciousness itself is a cosmic event, this episode is for you.

Find out more about their book and their work:

The Story of the Noosphere Book

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The Story of the Noosphere Video Series at The Human Energy Project.

Monica DeRaspe-Bolles is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she researches time-developmental cosmology and the potential emergence of a new structure of human experience that fosters cosmogenetic awakening. She is the co-author of The Story of the Noosphere and the co-writer of its thirty-five companion minifilms, created in collaboration with Brian Thomas Swimme. The Story of the Noosphere video series on Youtube.

Brian Thomas Swimme is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He completed his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. Swimme is the host of the Emmy Award–winning PBS special Journey of the Universe, co-written with Mary Evelyn Tucker (www.journeyoftheuniverse.org). His most recent book, Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe, is an early example of autocosmology—a genre blending contemporary science with cosmological phenomenology (starborne.substack.com).

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