Brian Swimme
Physicist, Author
1950 –
Who is Brian Swimme?
Brian Thomas Swimme is a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. He received his Ph.D. from the department of mathematics at the University of Oregon for work in singularity theory. Swimme was a faculty member in the department of mathematics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, 1978–81. He was a member of the faculty at the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, 1983–89, and is adjunct professor for Holy Names University's Sophia Center.
Swimme brings the context of story to our understanding of the multi-billion-year trajectory of cosmogenesis. His published work includes The Universe is a Green Dragon, The Universe Story, written with Thomas Berry, and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. Swimme is the producer of three DVD series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe.
Jerome Stone, author of Religious Naturalism Today, lists Swimme as a contemporary religious naturalist. Mary Evelyn Tucker, historian of religions at Yale University, teamed with Swimme to produce Journey of the Universe, an HD film released in 2011. They draw together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology and biology, with humanistic insights concerning the nature of the universe.
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