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Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action
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Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. This course draws on the Journey of the Universe Conversations, a series of 20 interviews with scientists and environmentalists. The first 10 interviews are with scientists and historians who deepen our understanding of the evolutionary process of universe, Earth, and humans. The second 10 interviews are with environmentalists, teachers, and artists who explore the connections between the universe story and the practices for a flourishing Earth community.
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For more than 300 years, Yale University has inspired the minds that inspire the world. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale brings people and ideas together for positive impact around the globe. A research university that focuses on students and encourages learning as an essential way of life, Yale is a place for connection, creativity, and innovation among cultures and across disciplines.
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WEEK1
1 hour to complete
Welcome to Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action!
Learn what this course is about, who's teaching it, and other ways you can explore this topic. Meet and greet your peers as well!
1 video (Total 9 min), 5 readingsSEE LESS
1 video
Tucker and Grim, “Introduction to the Journey Conversations”9m
5 readings
Course Description5m
Pre-Course Survey10m
Meet Your Instructional Team!5m
Recommended Texts5m
Web Resources15m
4 hours to complete
Introduction – Journey of the Universe Conversations
The universe’s evolutionary development forces it to leave eras and to start new eras, which is taking place in our own moment in time. We’re in one such moment. We are being pushed out of the industrial era into a new era of Earth’s history”
4 videos (Total 88 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzesSEE LESS
4 videos
Tucker, “Living Within a Universe Story”16m
Tucker, “Ethics in an Age of Extinction”11m
Journey of the Universe (full film)56m
Brian Swimme - Introduction3m
3 readings
"The New Story," by Thomas Berry30m
“The Unfolding Story of the Universe”, A Conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker and Julianne Warren20m
Hall of Planet Earth, American Museum of Natural History, NYC25m
2 practice exercises
Living Within a Universe Story30m
Introduction – Journey of the Universe Conversations30m
WEEK2
7 hours to complete
Beginning of the Universe: Galaxies, Stars, and the Solar System
A star is required for the production of carbon and oxygen and a galaxy is required for the production of stars. So the Milky Way galaxy as a whole is required for our hands. Understanding our cosmological nature is the first step into a new era.
5 videos (Total 97 min), 9 readings, 5 quizzesSEE LESS
5 videos
Beginning of the Universe (Joel Primack)22m
Galaxies Forming (Todd Duncan and Joel Primack)21m
The Emanating Brilliance of Stars (Todd Duncan and Joel Primack)22m
Birth of the Solar System (Craig Kochel)24m
Beginning, Galaxies, Stars and Solar System5m
9 readings
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 1: Beginning of the Universe30m
Scientific Summary, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: Beginning of the Universe15m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 2: Galaxies Forming30m
Scientific Summary, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: The Formation of Galaxies15m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 3: The Emanating Brilliance of Stars30m
Scientific Summaries, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: The Emanating Brilliance of Stars5m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 4: Birth of the Solar System30m
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)10m
Scientific Summaries, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: Birth of the Solar System10m
5 practice exercises
Beginning of the Universe (Joel Primack)30m
Galaxies Forming (Todd Duncan & Joel Primack)30m
The Emanating Brilliance of Stars (Todd Duncan and Joel Primack)30m
Birth of the Solar System (Craig Kochel)30m
Beginning of the Universe: Galaxies, Stars, and the Solar System30m
WEEK3
8 hours to complete
Emergence of Life, Learning, and Humans
We discuss the oxygen crisis two billion years ago and the endosymbiosis that dealt with it creatively. We too will deal with the enveloping crises of our time, first of all by tending to them, by taking responsibility for them.
5 videos (Total 125 min), 9 readings, 5 quizzesSEE LESS
5 videos
Life's Emergence (Terry Deacon and Ursula Goodenough)30m
Learning, Living, and Dying (Terry Deacon)38m
The Passion of Animals (Scott Sampson)20m
The Origin of the Human (Melissa Nelson and John Grim)31m
Life, Learning and Humans5m
9 readings
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 5: Life’s Emergence30m
Scientific Summary, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: Life’s Emergence15m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 6: Living and Dying30m
Scientific Summary, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: Living and Dying15m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 7: The Passion of Animals30m
Scientific Summary, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: the Passion of Animals15m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 8: The Origin of the Human30m
American Museum of Natural History, Evolution Today10m
Scientific Summary, by Matthew Riley and Brian Thomas Swimme: The Origin of the Human15m
5 practice exercises
Life's Emergence (Terry Deacon and Ursula Goodenough)30m
Learning, Living, and Dying (Terry Deacon)30m
The Passion of Animals (Scott Sampson)30m
The Origin of the Human (Melissa Nelson and John Grim)30m
Emergence of Life, Learning, and Humans30m
WEEK4
8 hours to complete
Becoming a Planetary Presence: Communities, Cities, and Economics
The story of the isolated neutron’s quick decay and the neutron+proton’s long term stability as an illustration of the synergistic effects that will take place in Eco-cities. In ways we can only guess at, these new mutually enhancing relationships will lead to a qualitatively new vitality.
6 videos (Total 106 min), 7 readings, 6 quizzesSEE LESS
6 videos
Becoming a Planetary Presence (Cynthia Brown)23m
Transition (Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker)3m
Breakthrough Communities (Carl Anthony)26m
Eco-Cities (Richard Register)25m
Ecological Economics (Richard Norgaard)24m
Planetary Presence, Economics, Eco-cities1m
7 readings
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 9: Becoming a Planetary Presence30m
Scientific Summaries, by Riley and Swimme: Becoming a Planetary Presence15m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 10: Rethinking Matter and Time30m
Scientific Summaries, by Riley and Swimme: Rethinking Matter and Time30m
Journey of the Universe Book: Chapter 11: Emerging Earth Community30m
Mary Evelyn Tucker and Mary Gorham “Business and Sustainability”20m
Solutions Journal - Read one article20m
6 practice exercises
Becoming a Planetary Presence (Cynthia Brown)30m
Transition (Mary Evelyn Tucker)30m
Breakthrough Communities (Carl Anthony)30m
Eco-Cities (Richard Register)30m
Ecological Economics (Richard Norgaard)30m
Becoming a Planetary Presence: Communities, Cities, and Economics30m
WEEK5
6 hours to complete
Embodied Knowing: Food, Energy, and Health
Understand the universe as self-organizing. Consider galaxies. It is the spiral structure of a galaxy that enables it to construct stars. Elliptical galaxies have lost this structure and have lost the capacity to construct stars. With planets it’s similar. The water, soil, and air enable it to bring forth life year after year. Soil in particular is a dynamic structure that required three billion years of life to construct. But it’s here now. So long as we maintain its health and integrity, it will bring forth food. But to lose that dynamic structure or to lose the dynamic structure of the oceans is to regress back billions of years.
5 videos (Total 97 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzesSEE LESS
5 videos
Permaculture (Penny Livingston)23m
Indigenous Ways of Knowing (Nancy Maryboy and David Begay)32m
Sustainable Energy (Paula Gonzalez)22m
Healing and Revisioning (Belvie Rooks)16m
Embodied Knowing: Food, Energy, Health2m
3 readings
“Indigenous Knowledge, Technology, and Life Lived Responsibly”, by John Grim25m
Indigenous Environmental Network – Read one story20m
Mary Evelyn Tucker and Jon Gorham “Sustainable Energy and Organic Food”30m
5 practice exercises
Permaculture (Penny Livingston)30m
Indigenous Ways of Knowing (Nancy Maryboy and David Begay)30m
Sustainable Energy (Paula Gonzalez)30m
Healing and Revisioning (Belvie Rooks)30m
Embodied Knowing: Food, Energy, and Health30m
WEEK6
6 hours to complete
Emerging Earth Community: Teaching and the Creative Arts
Humans need to live for something greater than themselves if they are ever to achieve happiness and fulfillment. One way to achieve this goal is to teach children the full nature of our universe. Not just our technologies and our sciences and our arts and entertainments, but the story of the universe itself and what is taking place all around and through them.
6 videos (Total 104 min), 8 readings, 5 quizzesSEE LESS
6 videos
Arts and Justice (Marya Grathwohl and Drew Dellinger)27m
Myths, Metaphors and Identities (Sachiko Kawaura and Nancy Abrams)19m
Teaching Journey of the Universe (Bindu Mohanty and Tom Collins)31m
Paul Winter in Dialogue with Mary Evelyn Tucker17m
Emerging Earth Community: Arts, myths, teaching Journey2m
Conclusion5m
8 readings
Love Letter to the Milky Way: A Book of Poems, by Drew Dellinger30m
“Belonging”, by Julianne Lutz Warren30m
Paul Winter – Earth Music10m
Paul Winter – Earth Mass10m
Paul Winter – Winter Solstice10m
(Music) Paul Winter - Lullaby for the Great Mother Whale (5 min)10m
(Music) Paul Winter – Wolf Eyes10m
Post-Course Survey10m
5 practice exercises
Arts and Justice (Marya Grathwohl and Drew Dellinger)30m
Myths, Metaphors and Identities (Sachiko Kawaura and Nancy Abrams)30m
Teaching Journey of the Universe (Bindu Mohanty and Tom Collins)30m
Paul Winter in Dialogue with Mary Evelyn Tucker30m
Emerging Earth Community: Teaching and the Creative Arts30m
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TOP REVIEWS FROM JOURNEY CONVERSATIONS: WEAVING KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
by VBJan 28, 2018
I loved this course. I see my place in the world in an entirely new way. Each one of us has a "great work" that we can contribute to our ever evolving and expanding universe.
by MWJan 4, 2017
A wonderful course providing deep insights into deep time and history. Well constructed lessons presented in a format that encourages participation and learning.
by PWJun 11, 2017
This is a very interesting and enlightening course. It has helped me see the world and the universe in an entirely different way. Thank you very much!
by BTJan 1, 2017
This course is filled with interesting interviews, thoughtful websites and papers all designed to help advance your understanding ofView all reviews
