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Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.
Brian Swimme
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Brian Swimme
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 4
Mathematician
Physicist
Seattle
Washington
Brian Thomas Swimme
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