Feeling our Way Towards the Noosphere
with
Viola Olsen & Brian Tucker
The Human Energy Project in coordination with Brian Swimme and others has recently produced a video series which focuses on the epic story of the Earth developing a Planetary Mind (the Noosphere). Viola Olsen and Brian Tucker will be facilitating a 4-part online dialogue series exploring what this Planetary Mind is about and how it may be helping to shape our global destiny. Course participants will watch selected short videos and gather for small and large group dialogue and reflection.
Together we will explore the nature of the Noosphere, how human thought shapes the condition of the planet and the destiny of all Life within it. Most importantly, we will consider the possibility that the Noosphere is not a separate being or experience, but that we are all a part of the Noosphere, and that it is embedded deeply within each one of us.
After watching the Noosphere film series, we may find that our destinies are intimately woven into a greater cosmic conversation. This material proposes that the great work we each are here to do can affect the trajectory of Life on Planet Earth.
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Your Program Facilitators
Viola Olsen - Central Point, Oregon, USA
Areas of Interest - Holistic Education, Mysticism and Science (Teilhard de Chardin Studies and Matthew Fox), Thomas Berry’s Dream of the Earth, Ecozoic Studies (Gaia), Bohmian Dialogue and Mindfulness.
Bio: M.Ed., completed a three-year program ending in 2002 at Oregon State University with a focus on Adult Education and Leadership, and designed on principles of Fritjof Capra’s Web of Life and Margaret Wheatley’s Leadership and the new Science. After 23 years of teaching Spanish at Southern Oregon University and ten years teaching English at Rogue Community College, Viola retired in 2018. Following retirement, she created a free of charge, online Holistic Education Resource Center for teachers of Earth Science, which draws on Deeptime Perspectives, and the works of Thomas Berry and Fritjof Capra. In 2022, she completed The Deeptime Leadership Program (and is retaking it), Jeremy Lent’s Web of Meaning Course, and most recently Fritjof Capra’s Course on the Systems View to Life. For the past three years, she participated in all of the Pari Center courses related to the work of David Bohm. Viola’s aim is to participate in projects that lead to a shift in consciousness, hence the two current projects, Feeling your Way Toward the Noosphere and Bohmian Dialogue Sessions.
Brian Tucker - Ewing, New Jersey, USA
Areas of Interest: Technology, Cosmology and Global Consciousness
Bio: B.A. Computer Science, Spiritual Direction Certificate from The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, Deeptime Certified Leader. Brian's facilitation has developed over the past 40 years of work in the areas of Technology, Cosmology and Spiritual Direction. He has a vision that technology can be used to support the flourishing of life on this planet and to help usher in the Ecozoic era. His work incorporates the four Deep Time Mindsets (Context, Matrix, Interiority, Action) into a design framework known as “Life-Centered” Design. Most recently he has begun focusing on the fifth element of the Deeptime Model known as “Continuum” (evolution towards Global Consciousness).
As a Systems Analyst technology professional and certified Deep Time Leader working for the past 16 years for a large Human Services Non-profit serving the Greater Philadelphia region, New Jersey and Delaware, Brian has been consulting with other non-profits whose missions align with Deeptime values (The Deeptime Network, The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, The David Paladin Archives, Bharat Sevashram Sangha, NJ in Kendall Park, The “Global Consciousness Committee” of the Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe, NM, and JEVS Human Services in Philadelphia).
Please visit briantucker.org to learn more.
Program: Feeling our Way Towards the Noosphere
with Viola Olsen & Brian Tucker
Dates:
4 Tuesdays - Feb. 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2023 (YOU CAN STILL JOIN & CATCH UP WITH THE SESSION RECORDINGS)