We provide online programs including a 9-month Deeptime Leadership & Wellbeing Program. whatever your path, an evolving universe is your context!
Perhaps you saw the movie “Journey of the Universe,” teach Big History, use the Montessori Cosmic Education Curriculum; or you’re using the lens of evolution to address urgent crises such as energy or agriculture; or you’re re-contextualizing human identity and purpose inside of an evolving universe; or you’re a musician, artist, or dancer focused on cosmology . . . Groups and individuals around t
07/01/2026
HOLY MOLY . . .
This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade. (Gift Article) From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.
06/15/2026
A number of Deeptimers participated last year and came home radiant with stories about their experiences. This is highly recommended. Deeptime members can receive a 15% discount. For more info click here: https://dtnetwork.org/events/the-cosmological-imagination-dancing-the-universes-dream/
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06/09/2026
This is incredibly inspiring. It's about how horses turning barren deserts in China into lush greenlands.
China Released Horses Into a Barren Desert With No Grass — What Happened Next Shocked Scientists December 1986. Eleven horses step off a cargo plane onto a desert s...
06/02/2026
In the 1992 volume The Universe Story, written with the cosmologist Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry articulates one of his clearest economic claims directly related to our environmental challenges:
"Our human economy is derivative from the Earth economy. To glory in a rising Gross Domestic Product with an irreversibly declining Earth Product is an economic absurdity."
— Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era — A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
The line is precise and uncompromising. The economy the human community runs is a subset of the larger economy the Earth has been running for four billion years — the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, water, soil, energy, and biological diversity that makes every human transaction possible. To celebrate human economic growth while the Earth economy is collapsing is, in Berry's framing, not a tradeoff. It is incoherent. The numbers do not add up because they are measuring different things on different scales.
The Great Work, in this dimension, includes the slow re-grounding of human economic thinking inside ecological reality. Mutually beneficial relations cannot be built on accounting that pretends the Earth is an externality.
What is one place in your own life where the human economy and the Earth economy have stopped speaking to each other?
Carry the Great Work forward at thomasberry.org