The Story of the Noosphere

Join us Wednesday, October 22, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Brian Swimme and Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, authors of award-winning The Story of the Noosphere.

The Story of the Noosphere reimagines our role in Earth’s evolution. We are not here merely to consume, but to participate directly in bringing forth a unified humanity. The same cosmic evolutionary force that created stars and galaxies is now constructing a thinking Earth, with the human collective as a planetary mind—what Teilhard de Chardin named the “noosphere.” Once perceptible only to visionaries like Teilhard, the noosphere is now visible, to any attentive mind, as a global nervous system of instantaneous communication, as an economic network more powerful than any nation-state, and as an AI-infused internet offering the full treasury of human knowledge to every community. This vision is no longer abstract philosophy; it is the architecture of our daily lives. Just as we now rely on the noosphere for our survival, the noosphere relies on us—on our creativity, insights, and aspirations—for its ongoing emergence. In this new cosmic story, each of us lives at the junction where the universe is awakening. Our personal destiny is entwined with the destiny of the whole. The challenge is not simply to observe this new era of Earth’s history, but to shape it—to bring intelligence, compassion, and courage to the great work now underway. 

About Our Guests

Monica DeRaspe-Bolles is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she researches time-developmental cosmology and the potential emergence of a new structure of human experience that fosters cosmogenetic awakening. She is the co-author of The Story of the Noosphere and the co-writer of its thirty-five companion minifilms, created in collaboration with Brian Thomas Swimme.

Brian Thomas Swimme is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He completed his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. Swimme is the host of the Emmy Award–winning PBS special Journey of the Universe, co-written with Mary Evelyn Tucker. His most recent book, Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe, is an early example of autocosmology—a genre blending contemporary science with cosmological phenomenology. He writes Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology on Substack.

The recording will be available to all registrants within one week of the event.