"Nature is good"

Cosmology & Metaphysics

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, 1988, Stephen Hawking.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, 1992, Stephen Hawking. (VHS)

ANGELS FEAR: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, 1987, Gregory Bateson.

THE COSMIC DOCTRINE, 1949, Dion Fortune.

COSMOS, 1980, Carl Sagen.

COSMOS, 1980, Carl Sagen. PBS series based on the astronomers best selling book, and narrated by Sagen himself. (DVD)

THE SELF-ORGANIZING UNIVERSE: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution,1980, Erich Jantsch.

THE TAO OF PHYS1CS, 1975, Fritjof Capra. .

THE UNIVERSE IS A GREEN DRAGON, 1984, Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry.

THE UNIVERSE STORY: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era-A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos, 1992, Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry.

SHIKASTA, 1979, Doris Lessing. In Shikasta the story of the final days of our planet is told through the Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Twentieth-century Earth, named 'Shikasta, the stricken' by the kindly paternalistic Canopeans sho colonised it many centruies ago, is under the influence of the evil empire, Puttoria. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. (fiction)

WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW, 2004, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, "WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?!" is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in an Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. The fourteen top scientists and mystics interviewed in documentary style serve as a modern day Greek Chorus. The chorus members act as hosts who live outside of the story, and from this Olympian view, comment on the actions of the characters below. They are also there to introduce the Great Questions framed by both science and religion, which divides the film into a series of acts. Through the course of the film, the distinction between science and religion becomes increasingly blurred, since we realize that, in essence, both science and religion describe the same phenomena.(DVD)

"Evolution is."

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