I am always inspired by Dr. Richard's talks: he speaks like the Butterfly probing for sweetness, but is also the Flower too, with her smile rooted in the Earth, bent and surprised, pulsating with the heart of Truth and Beauty; this: the Saint and the Poet share their stories of Truth and Beauty: I am the light says the former with her eyes wet with grief and sorrow, while the latter trips into the forest, arms akimbo, laughing and being laughed at by them, for he has fallen into earth's dark and wet loam, head turned to feet, as he holds them close, and as they, Truth and Beauty, make him as if their roots, fecund, persistent and bent; for he is their creature collapsing into this local reality, choking with sympathies running a frisson up and down his spine, imbuing him with their gifts of heightened perception and a lack of expectation; then and there, in Earth's Cosmic embrace, while reaching with their purpose, his wonder turns to awe, as his eyes glimmer with the love in it all. Thank-you Dr. Richard :)

I love this. It’s so comforting to not feel so alone, as when I listen to these 2 beautiful, intelligent men speak of the gravity of our current situation. When we hold the reality of this moment with conscious awareness we are engaged on a journey towards cogent cosmic solutions. Let us keep on.

Oh this is truly wonderful!! Both presenters so different and yet such a profound interweaving of the theme. The stars lead us to wonder...I will be using this phrase whenever I can.Hope it gets wide exposure...oh and i totally agree with the white supremacy comment. Australia where I live was colonised during the enlightenment and enlightenment science was sadly put into service for the near genocide of indiegenous peoples here. We are in a slow process of reconciliation and archetypal cosmology is still a untapped resource. Thanks so much for posting this.

There is already a song about that : "Who do you think you are? A Superstar? How right you are ! And we all shine on ..." Thank you professor Lennon , and thanks for these brilliant men-pun intended. We use these light/star analogies for a good reason-they contain a key to the mystery of us. With beacons of intelligence that these men are, and all like them, we have a fighting chance ...Follow the light, follow your Star, be another point of light and help illuminate the world.

The evolution of the universe often seems to have evolved through the clash of opposing forces. Patriarchy, industrial culture all were born of this evolving universe. It had its gifts for humanity, but today we are recognizing, increasingly as a culture, the price we had to pay for these gifts-we have sacrificed the viability of our planet itself, so that we could enjoy a good life. It is time that a new force emerges to check and contain patriarchal culture. And perhaps, because we are now cognizant of it, evolution no longer needs to proceed with conflicts and clashes but with harmony. I see Love as this new force that needs to emerge in our world now, harmonizing our differences, and uniting us, in ways that only love can do, by not sacrificing our individuality but fulfilling it by bequeathing it a greater wholeness-a wholeness that contains all that is in the universe. Thanks PCC! (and of course, as a EWP alum, I am channeling Aurobindo here)

1:17:12 Interesting, Brian. Compare that to Daniel Quinn's thinking though, that we should NOT view humanity as the peak of evolution, and that we already do, unfortunately.

And onward in my jouirney I come to understand that every hair is numbered, like every grain of sand. Bob Dylan

pardon me for the mistake. It is the strong nuclear force which attracts the two protons together to make deuterium. The two protons are unstable and one of them decays through the weak nuclear force.

In indian scriptures we have named stars in sanskrit and when child is born we say this child is from this star we call star as Nakshatra

Brian Swimme forgot to mention the reason why fusion in stars must the use the weak nuclear force. Stars don't get hot enough for the direct fusion of hydrogen into helium since the electromagnetic repulsion between two protons is to strong. H is fused indirectly to He through the weak nuclear force through beta plus decay which happens in all stars. The fusion in our sun through the proton proton chain begins with the weak nuclear force. Two protons collide with enough energy to change one of them into a neutron. The neutron emits an a neutrino and positron to carry away the positive charge so the neutron can be neutrally charged. The result is deuterium. Another proton fuses with the deuterium with the emission of a high energy photon through the strong nuclear force which is easier since you have now a neutron which is neutrally charged. He 3 is created or light helium. The final state of the proton proton chain in all stars by colliding two He together which emits to protons to create He 4

Consequently, the fusion of Hydrogen to Helium can only occur through the strong and weak nuclear force of the proton proton chain which is true of all stars.

The Sun and all stars don't get hot enough to directly fuse helium into hydrogen. It takes tens of billions of degrees to do that which is why at first astronomers did not think that stars worked through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. The hottest stars don't get over 10 billion degrees in their core and the odds of all six particles colliding simultaneously to make helium are two high (4 protons and 2 electrons) which can only occur at tens of billions of degrees. Source Book: 100 Billion Sun's. Kippenhahn, p. 44

When this clever man who gives such a wonderful presentation says "White supremacy... guilt etc." It's not about that. You're all clever enough there. I hope you think about why he put those words together. All the rest: really Inspiring.