Matthew Fox, PhD
Brian Thomas Swimme, PhD
Explore a path to spiritual evolution that’s billions of years old yet ever new through the wisdom of the mystics and modern science to discover the awe of being alive, connect with the energy and joy of the sacred, and experience yourself as a vibrant part of creation.
Have you ever considered that, just like the Universe, you are in a constant state of creation?
What if the awe, wonder, and mystery of the cosmos were not just distant truths, but the very essence of who you are — an infinite, ever-evolving being capable of reinventing yourself at any moment?
In this insightful online event with spiritual theologian Matthew Fox and cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme, you’ll explore how the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality and leading-edge revelations of modern science synergize to illuminate your deeper potential for transformation, letting go, vitality, self-expression, and joy.
Matthew and Brian will share how the Four Paths — Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa, and Via Transformativa — mirror the cycles of the Universe and can guide you to live more fully and authentically.
These paths provide a profound transformative roadmap for understanding and acting on your purpose and finding meaning in the cosmos and in our world.
With Brian, you’ll discover a process for evolution that’s billions of years old yet pulsing with possibilities today.
Matthew will share how the vibrant and meaningful insights of the mystics instruct us in receiving the energy of creation and co-creating with it...
... and how the Fourfold pathway contributes to practicing and understanding the mystery of your unfolding spiritual journey — including your service and work in the world.
Modern science now reinforces what the mystics taught thousands of years ago — creation is born from chaos, whether personal struggles or global turbulence such as ecological crises...
It’s all part of an ongoing process of evolution that is not only crucial for our survival — but an important part of the human journey.
Both perspectives offer deep insights on how to navigate with greater ease and resilience the challenges and uncertainties that occur along your own personal journey and that of our species as a whole.
Please join us for this fascinating FREE event to experience how Matthew’s theological teachings and Brian’s cosmological insights come together in this one-of-a-kind exploration of what it means to be human in the grand dance of the cosmos.
In this inspiring online event, you’ll:
- Discover the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality — a comprehensive framework for navigating your spiritual journey in the context of the cosmic story
- Be guided in an interactive exercise that synergizes the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality with the four directions to tap into your deeper humanity and creative potential
- Go deeper into the Via Creativa as the bridge between mysticism and prophecy
- Learn how the universe’s inherent creativity can inspire and empower your own spiritual and artistic expression
- Explore "balanced turbulence" as a state that fosters creativity and resilience — in both the cosmos and your life
- Discover how creativity, guided by the Holy Spirit, is essential for personal and collective evolution — and how art can become a meditative spiritual practice
A professor of cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, Brian is known for his Cosmogenesis book and Northern California Emmy® Award-winning PBS documentary, Journey of the Universe. His perspective on the nature of the Universe supports the emergence of a flourishing Earth community.
Matthew, one of today’s foremost mystical scholars and recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award, offers us divinely inspired guidance on how we can rise to meet the uncertainties of our time with compassion, conviction, creativity, and grace.
Through this remarkable dialogue, you’ll not only gain a deeper intellectual understanding of your place in the Universe, you’ll also be invited to go inward to embody the miracle of life as it unfolds within and around you.
If you’re ready to explore your own cosmic potential and embrace the wonder of being, join us for this incredible journey into the heart of creation.
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Join this FREE video event with Matthew Fox and Brian Thomas Swimme to rediscover the awe of being alive, connect with the energy and joy of the sacred, and experience yourself as a vibrant part of creation through a deeper interpretation of the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality.
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What People Are Saying About Matthew Fox...
I think of Matthew Fox as God’s Talent Scout for all the pivotal figures and ideas he has reclaimed for the reform of Christianity. He knows the sources and translates them into modern idioms for the rest of us! What he has done with Hildegard, Eckhart, and Aquinas himself makes him a major teacher and guide.
Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico
With his characteristic vigor, wit, and startling insight, Matthew Fox reclaims living wisdom from the murky recesses of theology. Who knew that Thomas Aquinas was so extravagantly brimming with a vital blend of earthy reverence and contemplative quietude, blessing the holiness of all that is incarnational while exalting the One that transcends all distinction? May these distilled teachings contribute to mending the torn web of the world.
Author of Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Author of A New Christianity for a New World
What People Are Saying About Brian Thomas Swimme...
As a theoretical physicist interested in the wider cultural and spiritual implications of modern science, I have long been a fan of the work of Brian Thomas Swimme, who has a particularly inspiring take on the standard scientific paradigm — that the universe is not just something to be theoretically understood but something we can have an experiential relationship with. In his newest book, Cosmogenesis, he intermingles his description of the development of his ideas with his own very personal history. Poignant, epic, and fascinating, it is quite simply a joy to read.
Imperial College London, physics department
Cosmogenesis is a remarkable story threaded into the dynamic unfolding of our emerging universe. The weave here of poetics, spirituality, and science is exquisite. Swimme’s narration will carry you along in his poignant journey toward universe-as-teacher. You will discover your personal entry into a cosmos speaking through you.
Yale University, co-author of Ecology and Religion
This is a brave, paradigm-shifting, page-turning book; vulnerable and intimate, vast, and lyrical. By sharing the challenges and breakthroughs of his own personal story in the style of an auto-cosmology, Brian Thomas Swimme impactfully reveals epic twists and turns of the Universe Story. Powerful storytelling throughout evokes a new and much needed cosmology that meaningfully brings together subjective lived experience and recent scientific discovery.
Author of Learning to Lead Together: An Ecological and Community Approach and co-founder of Global Generation
About Matthew Fox
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Matthew Fox is a prolific author of books dedicated to renewing the ancient tradition of Creation Spirituality, including Original Blessing... A Spirituality Named Compassion... and Christian Mystics. This earth-based mystical tradition is feminist, welcoming of the arts and artists, honors Indigenous wisdom, works with science, and is committed to interfaith approaches and eco, social, and gender justice.
Matthew’s effort to reawaken the West to its own mystical tradition has sparked awareness of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, and the mysticism of Thomas Aquinas, as well as the wisdom tradition that nurtured Jesus. Matthew’s work helps reconnect science and spirituality by honoring the sacredness of the Cosmos, and interacting with contemporary scientists who are also mystics. He believes that “by reinventing work, education, and worship, we can bring about a nonviolent revolution on our planet.”
Matthew received his doctorate summa cum laude in the history and theology of spiritualities from the Institut Catholique de Paris. A member of the Dominican Order for 34 years, he established an Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality that operated for seven years at Mundelein College in Chicago, and for 12 years at Holy Names University in Oakland.
He founded the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland in 1996 and was president and professor until 2005 when he left to create a pilot project to reinvent the educational experience for inner-city teenagers.
Matthew is a recipient of many awards, including the Gandhi King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, which is awarded for dedication to peace, unity, nonviolence, and justice. He also received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award —other recipients have included the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
About Brian Thomas Swimme
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Brian Thomas Swimme, PhD, is director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a nonprofit public benefit organization, and professor of cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his PhD from the department of mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics.
Brian brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.8 billion-year trajectory of the Universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community. He's author of Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe… The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos… and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He's co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a 10-year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry.
Brian also created, with Bruce Bochte, three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos… The Earth’s Imagination… and The Powers of the Universe. He co-wrote, with Mary Evelyn Tucker, and hosted the 60-minute film, Journey of the Universe, which was broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide and won the Northern California regional Emmy for Best Documentary in 2011.
His most recent media work, created with Monica DeRaspe-Bolles and Devin O’Dea, is the popular YouTube video series, “The Story of the Noosphere.” He lectures widely, and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, and the American Museum of Natural History.
