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| Original Title: | The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story |
| ISBN: | 0939680149 (ISBN13: 9780939680146) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Brian Swimme
Paperback | Pages: 168 pages Rating: 4.25 | 365 Users | 45 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story |
| Author | : | Brian Swimme |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 168 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1984 by Bear Company (first published January 1st 1984) |
| Categories | : | Spirituality. Science. Nonfiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Philosophy. Religion. Biology. Ecology |
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Communicating his ideas in the form of a classical dialogue between a youth and a wise elder, cosmologist Brian Swimme crafts a fascinating exploration into the creativity suffusing the universe. His explication of the fundamental powers of the cosmos is mystical and ecstatic and points directly to the need to activate one’s own creative powers.Rating Out Of Books The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
Ratings: 4.25 From 365 Users | 45 ReviewsJudge Out Of Books The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
Excellent, thought provoking book on the nature of the universe and the need for deeper thought.Im not familiar with classic dialogue, but this book started out and interesting and ended up annoying. Why was the youth character always so excited, dumbfounded, and eager to repeat what was just said? This book also neglected to mention many of the other life forms with higher cognitive abilities and over-focused on humans. It also got some stuff with evolution/genetics wrong. I did enjoy hearing some facts about physics that I didnt remember or know, and I thought that a few of the ideas
This thoughtful exploration of the meaning of the universe was very well done. Even if I did not agree with all of the opinions of the author, I felt that he did a great job sharing the beliefs he has about humanity in the context of astronomy. The fact that he holds a doctorate in his field of science and also has such a deep spirituality is very special; this book attests to his uniqueness of thought, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A musing inspired by Swimmes lyrical retelling of the story of the earth: What scientists will not tell you is that the universe too feels lonesome. Why else would she have dreamed up this pitiful creature but to feel in us her own beauty? The quiet of snowfall, the grace of a whale, the repose of an iceberg, without us, these things would have no witnesses to their beauty. In exiling ourselves from the natural world, we have lost a feeling for true beauty and have forgotten what it is to be the
Humans are here as the eyes and heart of the universe, that it might reflect upon itself. Humans are here to experiment, laugh, and play; we are here to mess around and enjoy the process AND to pay attention to creation.To put it in terms of the moon, for example, we arrive at our destiny when we experience the moon as a moon-human-complex, rather than a human "having the experience of" the moon. When we truly experience the moon, we are at one with the moon. We dissolve into it, and it
This might be my all-time favorite book. I've read it so many times and still discover new nuggets of wisdom and insight from it. I've given it away many times as well and usually get great feedback.It's not a 'story' in the typical sense, but it's a discussion between an older man and a young boy about 'The Story', - the story of all of us, the story of the Universe, the amazing things we now now about this Universe and how we can learn from and be inspired by this story. I think this book
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