Science and a Conscious Universe

Science has given us a fantastic new story — the story of the evolution of the universe and the story of ourselves as witnessing and participating in an unfolding cosmic drama. The discoveries made by the Hubble telescope, as well as the discovery that the universe came into being 13.7 billion years ago, have utterly transformed our perspective on the evolution of cosmic and planetary life and our own origins. Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) has been compared to a new Copernicus and the famous telescope he developed has revealed a universe that is not only incredibly vast and incredibly strange —even terrifying in its immensity — but also breathtakingly beautiful, as if painted by a cosmic artist of unparalleled genius.

The view of our planet from the moon, the ever-expanding dimensions of the universe, the ongoing complexity of the sub-atomic world and the story of the biological evolution of life on this planet may all be called revelations; it is almost as if the cosmos is speaking to us, telling us the story of how it came into being, how we came into being. And it is speaking to us through its own creation—human consciousness.

The Excerpts


Selected Excerpts from Chapters 9 & 14 from my book: The Dream of the Cosmos

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I am deeply into reading one of the most important and evocative books I have ever read. It is a work of genius and transformation.
– Jean Houston, Author and Visionary
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Anne Baring is one of the great pioneers on the Divine Feminine of our time. Her work is a marvelous marriage of profound learning, deep and mature mystical experience and a vivid immediate gift of communication. Her latest book, The Dream of the Cosmos, is the consummation of her life’s work, twenty years in the making. It is a masterpiece that will last a long time and deserves to be read by all seekers and anyone interested in the birth of a new civilization out of the chaos of our time.
– Andrew Harvey, author of Return of the Mother and Radical Passion
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The need to heal the split between spirit and matter — the need for the return of the feminine — is one of the most important stories of our present time. Few have dared to penetrate to the very foundation of this cultural split and to comprehend the real depths of the imbalance that now threatens our whole planet. Anne Baring’s book is a testimony to the Feminine: it is the story of what we have lost and what we need to regain.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee author of The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul