Turning Crises Into Wisdom with Elisabet Sahtouris

Program Description

Evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris blends biology, philosophy and spirituality into an intoxicating mix that will touch the very nucleus of your cells. Offering a multitude of reasons to remain hopeful despite dire predictions for our environment, Sahtouris is confident we can turn things around – and quickly – because “life is too intelligent to proceed by accident.” She cites recent evidence that “DNA reorganizes itself intelligently under stress with remarkable speed.” In other words, “There’s never a time for greater creativity than during crisis.” Sahtouris shows you how to uncover the four and one-half billion years of biological wisdom deep inside us all.

A United Nations consultant on indigenous peoples, Sahtouris is the author of several books including Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution (Praeger 1999) and co-author with Willis Harman of Biology Revisioned (North Atlantic Books 1998).

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• How to understand your place in the universe
• Why nothing in the universe is ever lost
• The secret connection between self-interest and cooperation
• How biology and spirituality empower ecology
• Genetic engineering: is science going too far?
• How biology has overtaken physics as a root science
• How to use biological concepts to help human institutions

Program Number: 2780              Host: Michael Toms            Interview Date: 6/4/1999