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James Gardner
The Biofriendly Cosmos

James Gardner, science essayist, complexity theorist, and author of Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution, discusses the ideas behind his radical new theory of cosmic creation and the evolution of life.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn
A Universe Like No Other

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, creator and host of the PBS television series Closer To Truth, provides a fascinating overview of current cosmological theories in this conversation with WIE's Tom Huston about why our universe exists and what kind of universe it may—or may not—be!

Paul Davies
Mysteries of the Universe: Talks with Physicists about Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Part One

In the first installment in WIE Unbound’s new Mysteries of the Universe series, acclaimed physicist Paul Davies explores the nature of dark matter and dark energy with WIE editor Tom Huston.

Bernard Haisch
Mysteries of the Universe: Talks with Physicists about Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Part Two

Bernard Haisch, an eminent astrophysicist who is known for finding parallels between science and religion in his work, speaks with WIE editor Tom Huston about dark matter, dark energy, and the mysterious composition of our universe.

Deno Kazanis
Mysteries of the Universe: Talks with Physicists about Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Part Three

In his conversation with WIE editor Tom Huston, biophysicist Deno Kazanis proposes that spiritual insights into the nature of subtle realms of existence may provide a key for unlocking the mysteries of dark matter.

Janna Levin
Mysteries of the Universe: Talks with Physicists about Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Part Four

In this final edition of WIE’s four-part investigation into dark matter and dark energy, editor Tom Huston talks to theoretical physicist Dr. Janna Levin about some of the most imaginative new theories describing the nature and structure of the universe.

Joel R. Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams
At Home in the Cosmos: Exploring Who We Are and Why We Are Here

Physicist Joel Primack and his wife, philosopher Nancy Abrams, speak with WIE’s Andrew Cohen and Elizabeth Debold about how a new scientifically-based cosmology is providing new meaning to humanity’s unique role in the evolving universe.

Duane Elgin
The Living Universe

Author and media activist Duane Elgin explains why he thinks the cosmology of the future will see the universe not as a mechanical conglomeration of matter but as a living, evolving entity.

Brian Swimme
The Story of the Universe
Mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme is both scientifically grounded and spiritually inspired in this portrayal of human consciousness as the end result and leading edge of 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Dr. Ervin Laszlo
Information and Memory in Cosmos and Consciousness
A Voices from the Edge presentation in London

Dr. Ervin Laszlo presents a radical new theory of our “informed universe” in which information is as elemental as energy but is perpetually created and forever retained.

Edgar Mitchell
The Quantum Hologram

Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Edgar Mitchell, discusses the nature of consciousness and its place in the cosmic scheme of things past, present, and future.

Michael Dowd
Beyond Sustainability: A Hopeful, Inspiring Vision of the Next 250 Years
A Voices from the Edge presentation in NYC

Michael Dowd, former Evangelical minister, believes that as we integrate the story of cosmogenesis into our lives a worldwide spiritual revival will occur.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo
The Bifurcation Point: World at the Crossroads

Ervin Laszlo, Nobel Prize nominee and Club of Budapest founder, brings his grand-scale “theory of everything” to bear on the plight of humanity here and now.

Articles

Your 3-D Universe Is So Passé
A new way of looking at reality stretches the mind into multiple dimensions
Issue 36
Preachers of a New Pentecost
Two evangelists of evolutionary spirituality are carrying the message of science and spirit to grassroots Christianity and beyond

Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd are traveling the ancient missionary path with a radical new message: the science of evolution may be the key to a worldwide spiritual revival.

Issue 25
The Café at the Beginning of the Universe
An encounter with Howard Bloom

One of today's most imaginative minds plays cosmic (and comic) tour guide through the formative moments of the universe, hinting at wild surprises yet to come.

Issue 25
Comprehensive Compassion

A visionary cosmologist explains why this may be the most critical yet potentially transformative time on the planet in 65 million years.

Issue 19
Looking Back to the Beginning
The Ultra Deep Field: a picture worth ten thousand galaxies

Ann Druyan · Neil deGrasse Tyson · James Gardner · Brian Swimme

Issue 26
Has Heaven Died and Gone to Physics? or The Gospel According to Frank
A Book Review of Frank J. Tipler

A review of The Physics of Immortality, Frank J. Tipler's reductionist prophecy of an eternity far stranger than paradise.

Issue 11