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Angela Manno is an award-winning artist based in Scotland. She is a graduate of Bard College and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, and l’Ecole des Arts in Lacoste through Sarah Lawrence College, France. She trained with master iconographer Vladislav Andrejev in the ancient liturgical art of Byzantine-Russian iconography.

A three-time grant recipient from the Xerox Corporation, Manno’s art has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and other museums around the world.

In 1988, Manno was commissioned by NASA to commemorate the U.S. return to space flight with the launch of Discovery, the first after the Challenger accident. She is the only female visual artist selected for this honor. Other artists to capture the novelty of space travel for the space agency include Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Wyeth. Her artwork for this assignment has toured throughout the United States and is part of the permanent NASA space art collection at the Kennedy Space Center.

Manno’s major solo exhibition, Conscious Evolution: The World At One, toured internationally and was seen by more than a quarter of a million people. With the support of private and corporate sponsors—including actor Tom Hanks, AXA Space, and Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia—the artwork featured in the exhibition became part of the permanent fine art collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.

In May 2022, Manno was commissioned by the Vatican Dicastery on Integral Human Development to create an audio-visual program to open Laudato Si’ Week 2022, the seven-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking encyclical. The program, Responding to the Cry of the Earth, featured images from her series Contemporary Icons of Endangered Species and appeared on computer screens around the world as part of the global event No More Biodiversity Collapse: Rebalancing Social Systems with Nature.

Manno’s artwork has been noted in numerous publications, including NPR, Hyperallergic, National Wildlife Magazine, TNational Catholic Reporter, The Progressive, Sojourners, ART News, Treehugger, Smithsonian Online Magazine, Kosmos and a nine-page spread in The Artful Mind, the premier art magazine of the Berkshires. Her plein air landscapes are featured in the French documentary film Voyage au Pays des Lavandes (Journey to Lavender Country). Her art is also featured in two coffee table books, Visions of Space and In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet American Space Art Book, and on the cover of the forthcoming volume, Animal Dignity.

Manno’s current series, Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species, applies her iconographic training to a contemporary exploration of the environmental crisis and biodiversity collapse.

Links:

Website: https://angelamanno.com/

Sacred Biodiversity Oracle: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sacred-Biodiversity-Oracle/Angela-Manno/9781591435037

Beyond Factory Farming: https://orbisbooks.com/products/beyond-factory-farming-a-contemplative-prophetic-approach-to-food?_pos=4&_sid=89bf9dd41&_ss=r

Come, Have Breakfast: https://orbisbooks.com/products/come-have-breakfast-meditations-on-god-and-the-earth-copy?_pos=2&_sid=37e1df777&_ss=r

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Ernie Tamminga is a trained Spiritual Director and holds a PhD in Cross-Cultural Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied for five years with Raimon Panikkar. His dissertation focused on Teilhard’s notion of a “Privileged Axis” of evolution. During the 1970s he was a member of the board of “The Phenomenon of Man Project,” which offered presentations and retreats centered on Teilhard’s vision.

Ernie calls himself a “planet empath” whose heart has long been broken by the degradation we are inflicting on our Home Planet and all her living beings. He shares Raimon Panikkar’s frequently stated hope, “I’m holding out for a mutation.” Ernie also had a career in the technology industry and has taught university-level courses in World Religions and in Computer Science. (One of his business cards identifies him as a “Consulting Multitasker.”)

Links:

Website: https://pointomega.com/

Substack: https://ernietamminga.substack.com/about

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernie-tamminga-32b17a1

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Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Wilmington, as she explores the intersection of religion, technology, and the mysterious world of UFOs (now UAPs).

From academic insight to cosmic curiosity, Dr. Pasulka challenges the boundaries of belief and science in a way that is authentically speculative, exploratory, and expansive.

Dr. Pasulka’s research focuses on religion, technology, and emerging religious movements. She has authored a series of acclaimed books, including:

Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences (2024), American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology (2019), and Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture (2014).

https://dwpasulka.com/

IG: @dwpasulka

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John F. Haught, PhD is a Distinguished Research Professor from Georgetown University in Washington, DC where he was Professor in the Department of Theology (1970-2005) and Chair (1990-95). His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion. Haught has authored over twenty books on these topics. In 2002 he was the winner of the Owen Garrigan Award in Science and Religion; and in 2004 the Sophia Award for Theological Excellence; in 2008 he received a “Friend of Darwin Award” from the National Center for Science Education. In Fall 2008 he held the D’Angelo Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University in New York City. In April 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from Louvain University, Belgium.

Marie Bayon de La Tour is the great-niece of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. Her background is in Natural Sciences, and she currently teaches Life and Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences at the primary and secondary school levels. Marie is Secretary General of the Association of Nephews of Teilhard de Chardin, Vice-President if the Association of Friends of Father Teilhard de Chardin, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation. Marie is a wife, mother, grandmother, and author.As quoted: “Here I am contemplating the rolling wooded hills, the Limagne plain, and the Puys (volcanoes) on the horizon” -Teilhard wrote to his brother Joseph, Marie’s grandfather."The Feminine": Le Féminin, avenir du mondeÂ: Deux vies en conversation, Marguerite Teillard-Chambon et son cousin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:https://www.amazon.com/F%C3%A9minin-avenir-monde%C3%82-conversation-Teillard-Chambon/dp/2364525977?ref_=ast_author_mpbTeilhard Project: https://www.teilhardproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AN-ESSAY-BY-MARIE-BAYON-DE-LA-TOUR.pdf

Dr. Ernie Tamminga, PhD is a trained Spiritual Director and holds a PhD in Cross-Cultural Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During the 1970s he was a member of the board of “The Phenomenon of Man Project,” which offered presentations and retreats centered on Teilhard’s vision. Ernie also had a career in the technology industry and has taught university-level courses in World Religions and in Computer Science. He is currently leading an ATA study group for "The Human Phenomenon."https://pointomega.com/

In the third installment of a three part conversation on Teilhard and Jung, Dr. Andrew Del Rossi and Dr. Thomas Legere discuss the emergent wisdom found in the integration of the theories of the two visionaries.

In the second part of a three part conversation on Teilhard and Jung, Dr. Andrew Del Rossi and Dr. Thomas Legere discuss the thought and vision of each thinker and then talk about each man's encounter with institutions.

In the first of three conversations, podcast host, Dr. Andrew Del Rossi, and psychologist, Dr. Thomas Legere, explore the convergences and divergences along with the emergence of wisdom and insight from the thought of Teilhard de Chardin and Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

Frank and Mary Frost are independent documentary filmmakers with more than 35 years of experience. Frank earned his PhD in Cinema from the University of Southern California. Mary is a journalism graduate of the University of Toledo and was a syndicated reporter on Capitol Hill before joining Frank Frost Productions. The Frosts recently produced a film on the life of Teilhard de Chardin for public television.https://www.teilhardproject.com/