It’s the end of the world—if we understand that a “world” is something we put together through the stories and symbols of a culture. When a worldview or a cosmology unravels, when myths no longer give one a sense of place and meaning in the cosmos, we experience this as the end of the world—the apocalypse.

But apocalypse means “unveiling.” While it often leads to destruction and fear—the clinging to an imagined past of fascism—it can also be a collective re-birth, the emergence of a new story, new sets of symbols, that give one a sense of place in the cosmos, that give our world meaning. 

This course seeks to first understand our world through the lens of cosmology; then looks at how our world is unraveling (the polycrisis); and, finally, works collaboratively to reimagine our work, and our world, by applying a new world-vision.

This is an invitation to explore our worldviews—the narratives and symbols that give us our sense of who we are and our place in the world. This course provides the foundational concepts from our spiritual, philosophical and scientific traditions by exploring the concept of cosmology/ecology.