Direct from Chartres: Embracing the Unfolding Universe. A VIRTUAL pilgrimage experience with Brian Thomas Swimme and Lauren Artress

Join us virtually from Chartres on Pilgrimage with Brian Swimme— Embracing the Unfolding Universe, hosted by Lauren Artress. Sign up to receive video recordings from four days of morning meditations with Lauren Artress and Rob Hodges on cello, talks by Brian Thomas Swimme, discussions between Brian and Lauren, and video vignettes around Chartres village with Lars Howlett including, for the first time, the Fall Harvest Festival! Watch the journey unfold Sept 30th to Oct 4th or at your own time and pace. (Recordings are not live, but emailed in daily digests with links that will NOT expire.) Questions? Email [email protected]  

As the proxy pilgrim, Lars will also light a candle in Chartres Cathedral in your honor and include the spoken names of up to two other people by request.

The full Chartres Pilgrimage program description is available at the link below!

Embracing the Unfolding Universe: An Exploration of Humanity's Cosmic Role with Dr. Brian Thomas Swimme hosted by the Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress

The creative energy of the universe has, over fourteen billion years, brought forth a Milky Way galaxy filled with stars, an Earth throbbing with life, and a restless human species in search of its soul, its mission in our universe. Our destiny is to create harmony. We have been born into this evolutionary process to participate in the cosmic act of bringing a fragmented humanity into a vibrant Earth community. Us-and-them categories are no longer viable; contemporary biology has discovered that genetically we are all relatives. Suffused with the energy that constructed two trillion galaxies, we are ready to imagine ourselves as planetary humans. In Chartres cathedral, one of the great spiritual centers of human history, we will feel the reverberations that always accompany the emergence of a new era. In lectures from cosmic storyteller Brian Thomas Swimme, in walking the Labyrinth together, in creative exercises, in dialogue with all, in star gazing within the Milky Way galaxy, in contemplative music, and in imagery the size of a cathedral, we will enter a heart-centered pathway into the next era of humanity's journey.