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7 Cheng, 174, 184; Jones and Culliney, 647, 652; Robert G. Jahn, and Brenda J. Dunne, Margins
of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1987): 324;
Laughlin and Throop, 729.
8 Cheng, 162-63, 170; Berry, Dream, 195.
9 David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, repr.
1981): 143-44, 155, 177-78, 203; David Bohm, Fragmentation and Wholeness (Jerusalem: van Leer
Jerusalem Foundation, 1976): 18, 23; Cheng, “Guan”, 167, 175.
10 Berry, Dream, 82; Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower,
1999): 190; Tu Weiming, “Ultimate Self-Transformation as a Communal Act: Comments on
Modes of Self-Cultivation in Traditional China”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy 6 (1979): 242.
11 Berry, Dream, 215; in Tu Weiming and Mary Evelyn Tucker, eds., Confucian Spirituality, vols. 1 & 2.
(New York: Crossroad, 2004): 1.
12 Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion (New York:
Basic Books, 2008): 7-9; Berry, Great Work, 48, 161.
I’ve been called to cosmogenesis since gazing at the stars on boyhood nights in Rome, NY.
The journey has taken me to intercultural and transdisciplinary work in Alaska and China,
an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the evolution of consciousness at Emory, and to university
teaching, writing and research fellowships elsewhere in the US. Joined with love for my
gifted partner Greta D’amico and my wonderful family, my enduring interest has been
celebration of the nondualized life of things in ecohumane sustainability and its evocation
in science, mythopoeia and spirituality – evolutionary systems cosmology, Chinese lore and
contemplative experience. My home is The Institute for Contemporary Ancient Learning in
Seattle. Publications include, By the Torch of Chaos and Doubt (2003), and a recent article
“Contemplative Ecology” in Journal of Chinese Philosophy (March 2010).