Five Stars are not Enough
Five stars are not enough to express my appreciation for this resource.
Since 1977, I have sought to image, describe and conceptualize in easily understandable ways the evolutionary story of how the world came to be. I tried to do this first for myself, a non-scientist, and for other seekers who also longed to understand. The scientific discoveries of the evolution of the Universe are all encompassing, leaving no dimension of human experience unaffected. The writings of Thomas Berry became totally engaging, but there were so few resources for communicating their power. For decades at Genesis Farm, we literally "cut and pasted" drawings, charts, timelines, rituals, snippets of films, lectures and images in a constant attempt to grasp, understand and share the enormity of what this "new cosmology" was revealing.
At long last, this masterful resource provides the mind and heart with an understandable history of how everything came into being. Through profound and...
Poetic
I love programs like this. I love when documentaries pull you into their power of storytelling.
Although this documentary is powerful and poetic, it seems to wander about aimlessly at times. For instance, it suggests that somehow the Earth itself could be somehow directing its own destiny, suggesting that the Earth has kept a temperature conducive to life, not by coincidence, but by purpose, regulating that temperature against the backdrop of the changes in the sun and the solar system in order to harbor life. They suggest that the Earth itself might be a system that is aware and cognizant of it's destiny, but then quickly leave that premise without elaborating in any way or backing that notion up with empirical evidence.
That is an interesting suggestion. And you would think that there would be some reason that it was presented, but no. It just quickly moves to the next somewhat loosely related topic. There was no common thread here for me, nor anything new. It...
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