Brian Swimme

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Brian Swimme (born 1950) is an author of several books dealing with cosmology, evolution and religion. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1978 in gravitational dynamics. His research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of the universe, the relationship between scientific cosmology and more traditional religious visions and the role of humanity in the unfolding story of Earth and cosmos. In 1998, he founded the international Epic of Evolution Society forum for artists, scientists, ecofeminists, ecologists, religious thinkers and educators interested in the new story.

He is the author of:

Manifesto for a Global Civilization (with Matthew Fox), Bear and Company, 1982, ISBN 093968005X
The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story, Bear and Company, 1984, ISBN 0939680149
The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era: A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos, Harper, 1992 (1994, ISBN 0062508350) - a culmination of a 10-year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, Orbis, 1996 (1999, ISBN 1570752818)
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us - The Evolution of Life on Earth (with Sidney Liebes and Elisabet Sahtouris), John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN 0471317004

Swimme's media work includes the video series, Canticle to the Cosmos and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. With Elisabet Sahtouris, he wrote the narrative of the book for the exhibit A Walk Through Time.

Swimme also introduced Barbara Hand Clow in her books, Heart of the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades (1989, ISBN 0939680599) and The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light (1995, ISBN 1879181304).^[1]