This is a fascinating website, full of excellent annotated references to recently published books "a once and future encounter with an embryonic, numinous universe." Provides an ongoing update of Sri Aurobindo's seminal idea of a universe endowed with an innate evolutionary dynamic toward consciousness and transcendence.
 
"...A Creative, Organic Universe: From this holistic vista, the over fifteen hundred references posted here can testify to a once and future encounter with an embryonic, numinous universe. Science began by reading nature as a sacred book. The endeavor went on to explore and catalogue atom, cell, species and star. But its necessary method of looking down into matter and back in time reduced and lost life along the way. Earth and human were removed from privileged regard to a rare, contingent blossom not to appear again. This physical agenda, lately in search of a quantum theory of everything, seems almost Ptolemaic in its efforts to shore up an inadequate model and misplaced emphasis.
 
As the references attest, a growing number of researchers and scholars advocate a quite different scenario. An organically self-organizing universe is increasingly understood which can return life and intelligence to a central significance. In a biological cosmos whose innate properties give rise to sentient beings on cellular planets, its essence is most evident from whom they may become. No longer a random tangent, the manifest emergence of life, mind and informed selves can define a vectorial arrow of cosmogenesis. People are once more of cosmic notice, this time as its leading, creative, spiritual edge." ...
© 2006, by Arthur Fabel

A Sourcebook for the Worldwide Discovery of a Creative Organic Universe
An Annotated Anthology Sourcebook for the Worldwide Discovery of a Creative Organic Universe
Table of Contents
Introduction
Genesis Vision
Learning Planet
Organic Universe
Cosmic Code
Nested Evolution
Earth Life Emerge
Genesis Future
Glossary
Recent Additions
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As a collaborative work in progress, we invite suggestions of books, articles and websites, (best if annotated). If selected for inclusion, the sender will be noted. Please email to:
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The universe is progressing in a direction toward greater intelligence, conscious awareness, & self-understanding. The dark universe becomes gradually more lit up with consciousness. David Grinspoon

David Grinspoon

This sourcebook documents the rising planetary vision of an organically developing universe, a cosmic genesis, by way of an annotated bibliography and anthology with over 1500 entries.  Instead of an alphabetic list, its outline conveys this once and future narrative of a quickening, numinous creation which involves human participation.  Of special note will be a respectful accord with prior wisdom and how it might advise a better, more tolerant, sustainable future.

As the logo portrays, our guiding premise is that a new composite stage of worldwide knowledge is just now emerging from the contributions of all people together.  From this humankind vantage, whole earth appears as a learning planet coming to its own discovery.  This inclusive vista can provide a novel dispensation we are in much need of today.  The main editor is Arthur Fabel but its on-going authorship belongs to everyone. 


The implications are that human beings are much more like the cosmos than we thought when we conceived it as a dead, inert, materialistic thing. In other words the cosmos becomes much more like us. Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks

An abridged version of Parts III, IV, V, and VI are posted as the Science Bibliography, “The Emerging Discovery of a Self-Organizing Universe,” at the Forum for Religion and Ecology website hosted by the Harvard University Center for the Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/religion. 


Let’s visualize all the people living in peace. Let’s carry the clearest vision of a peaceful world. And do it with a spirit of fun and joy. War is over if you want it. Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

View a keynote presentation made at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic on October 14, 2005. The conference was organized by the Center for Dialogue between Science and Religion of the Cyril-Methodius Theological Faculty. An earlier version of this talk was presented at Marist College on May 14, 2005.