An Introduction to The Cosmic Egg

Another Name For Every Thing with Richard Rohr

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We are back for a fifth and final season! Richard Rohr is once again joined by Brie Stoner and Paul Swanson to walk together through the layers of the Cosmic Egg of Meaning and life in the Universal Christ. This season focuses on the Cosmic Egg of Meaning as a framework that positions "my story" within "our story" within "the story". In this episode, Richard teaches the overview of the Cosmic Egg so that we can hold the concept as a whole before diving into its particularities. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. Visit cac.org/podcast to listen to the first 4 seasons of Another Name for Every Thing Visit universalchrist.org to learn more about the core themes of Richard’s book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.3	To learn more, visit caac.org.
0:07.6	So, Swanson, we're going to talk about the cosmic egg.
0:14.7	We're going to lay the cosmic egg, if you will.
0:18.5	See what I did there?
0:19.5	I love what you did there.
0:20.5	I love the idea of laying cosmic egg.
0:24.4	No small feet.
0:25.4	But in all seriousness, Richard has this very helpful frame that we wanted to explore
0:32.4	within the guise of kind of like a final exploration of talking about the universal Christ.
0:38.0	He lays out the cosmic egg as this nested my story, with an hour story, within the story.
0:44.6	Yeah, it's a very useful frame that he's used over the years and really kind of emerged
0:50.5	into something essential that he's working with as a teaching tool in his latest book,
0:55.0	The Wisdom Pattern.
0:56.6	And it was fun to hear the ways that he is teasing this out, not only through kind of
1:02.2	the larger context of the Christian contemplative tradition, but also with the lens of our time
1:08.1	right now in these strange and confusing times that we find ourselves in within the pandemic.
1:15.1	Yeah, the Twilight Zone that has been 2020 and still 2021.
1:20.8	And I think it's okay to name that many of those who are listening and it's certainly
1:27.7	myself had a little bit of an allergic reaction to like, oh no, another frame.
1:33.0	Oh no, another map.
1:35.2	And what exactly is the story and who's determining the story and shouldn't it be a little bit
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