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Janet Lynn Roseman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Integrative Medicine at the Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. She teaches courses in Spirituality and Medicine, Art and Medicine, and Death and Dying for medical school students. She received the first Joseph Moore President's Award for her work in oncology and spirituality from Lesley College and was a David Larsen Fellow in Spirituality and Medicine at the Kluge Center for Scholars at the Library of Congress. Dr. Roseman is also the Founding Director of the Sidney Project in Spirituality and Medicine and Compassionate Care™, a medical education program for physician residents.

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In this conversation, we speak with writer and spiritual teacher Patricia Pearce, whose journey from Presbyterian pastor to mystic invites us to rethink the boundaries of faith and spiritual identity. Patricia shares how a profound shift in consciousness opened her to the illusion of separateness and the deeper unity beneath all things. Together, we explore the transformation that led her to leave the institutional church and step into her vocation as a writer and guide on unitive consciousness.

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Patricia Pearce was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from college she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Andes of Ecuador, an experience that set her on a path of spiritual exploration and into ordained ministry.

For seventeen years she served as a Presbyterian pastor, but in the early 2000's, following the death of a close friend, she experienced a spiritual awakening which showed her that Reality is an interconnected whole, the essence of which is Love; that separateness and the separate self are illusions in the mind; and that this world is a form of dream.

The insights from her awakening led her beyond the bounds of conventional Christian belief, and in 2010 she left the Church to embark on a vocation of writing, speaking, and teaching about the global shift into unitive consciousness.

She is the author of two books—Beyond Jesus: My Spiritual Odyssey; and No One in I Land: A Parable of Awakening.

Patricia shares her latest writings and podcasts on her WeAwakening Substack. You can learn more about her and her offerings on her website, www.patriciapearce.com.

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In this episode, we enter a conversation at the edge of human evolution, where science and spirituality converge.

Our guests, cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme and scholar Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, co-authors of The Story of the Noosphere, invite us to imagine humanity’s next great unfolding: the birth of a planetary mind.

Together we explore what Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere. Swimme and DeRaspe-Bolles describe this as the time when the universe begins to awaken to itself through us.

Our conversation touches on the nature of convergence: the universe’s movement toward communion rather than collapse; and on allurement, that subtle power of attraction that draws atoms, stars, and people into deeper relationship. We ask what it means to participate consciously in this convergence, and how imagination might guide the emergence of a more unified, compassionate world.

If you’ve ever sensed that your own life is part of a larger unfolding story and that consciousness itself is a cosmic event, this episode is for you.

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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. The Story of the Noosphere video series on Youtube.

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 (www.journeyoftheuniverse.org). 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 (starborne.substack.com).

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