ANN AMBERG - 2025 Powers of the Universe Learning Immersion

Archetypal Earth and Cosmos: The Powers of the Universe

Join us for an online experiential immersion exploring how foundational ecological archetypes
can profoundly shape our personal and collective journeys

What is the earth asking of us?

Is it possible to partner intentionally with the elegant creativity of the earth and the cosmos?

How does our inner life respond to the vibrancy of the natural world as a living subject?

Starting March 2, 2025, join Ann Amberg, M.C.S., M.A. for a biweekly online study group as we explore The Powers of the Universe*, based on the 11-part educational series by Dr. Brian Thomas Swimme. What are the powers of the universe? They are foundational universal, eco-cultural and psychic patterns that shape all life, from molecules to animals to bioregions to galaxies. Gravity, creativity, balance, destruction and rebirth, transformation, and complexity are just a few of the foundational patterns that work to ensure the regeneration of the earth's ability to be self-creative.

Just below our everyday consciousness, these primal archetypal tendencies structure realities that bubble forth from mystery. They are science-based gods that personify the core elements of a new, relatable creation myth—part of our unfolding story that celebrates what it means to be a contributing member of the human species. Guided by these powers, we are invited to become more ensouled and in sync with a larger psychic context informed by the dream of the earth now, in this uncertain changing-time.

In this transformative program we’ll take a deep dive into ten cosmological dynamics: Centration, Allurement, Emergence, Homeostasis, Cataclysm, Synergy, Transmutation, Transformation, Interrelationship, and Radiance. We'll invite a reflective, embodied experience of the numinous qualities of earth and psyche, exploring inner leadership capacities enabling us to respond with grace and agility in this time of systemic shifts at the personal, cultural and global level.

Of the archetype, C. G. Jung wrote: “It persists throughout the ages and requires interpreting anew. The archetypes are imperishable elements of the unconscious, but they change their shape continuously.” (CW 9i, 1959, para. 179). Our discussions will help illuminate how these universal patterns—archetypal constituents animating the ecological unconscious,—emerge via a multitude of symbolic images into our own conscious awareness in this time of global upheaval. Our engagement with the ten cosmological dynamics is a creative practice of deep ecopsychological "image literacy."

Inspired by the work of Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Richard Tarnas, Sharon Blackie, Geneen Marie Haugen and other luminaries in the fields of cosmology and consciousness, ecopsychology, myth, nature-based inquiry and depth psychology, we will explore our emerging orientation as planetary humans, consciously reflecting and inhabiting the ten patterns that shape the universe and all life. With a deep awareness of these patterns we can learn to work in synergy with life systems to release an outmoded domination paradigm and nurture our birthright as resilient planetary humans.

The Spring-Summer 2025 immersion program is full.

Questions? To learn more or be added to the mailing list for future courses please contact me at annamberg4@gmail.com

Course Details

Fees:

Standard: $365 ($33 per session)
Student: $290
Scholarship provider: $450

A deposit of $100 holds your place, payable via credit card, PayPal, or Venmo If you paid a deposit, I will email you an invoice for the balance due by March 1, 2025. Groups of 4 or more registering together are eligible for a discount at $290 per person.
Full fees payable by March 14, 2025
The program fee includes one optional private mentoring session with me during the program, to be scheduled after full program fee is paid.

Groups of 4 or more registering together are eligible for a discount. A guest speaker may join us for one or more sessions.

Participants are encouraged to attend all live online sessions and to view the associated recorded video lecture with Dr. Swimme before or after the session. We will have opportunities between sessions to explore personal soul inquiry in nature or community, dreams, and individual reflection. This creative, applied self-research opens the door to collaboration with mystery and the ecological unconscious, deepening our archetypal literacy and our soul journey.

2025 Powers of the Universe program dates:

March 2 - Session One
Introduction: "Seamlessness"—the generative mystery, ground of all being, the ecological unconscious
March 16 - Session Two
"Centration" —how the universe centers on the unique unfolding of each being: individuation and the ecological self
March 30 - Session Three
"Allurement"— we are bonded to each other and to the earth through the primordial power of eros
April 13 - Session Four
"Emergence"— the earth is creative and gives birth to new ways of being and knowing in each moment
April 27 - Session Five
"Homeostasis"— how the earth is self-organizing and maintains its capacity for self-creation
May 11 - Session Six
"Cataclysm" — in the cycle of life/death/rebirth, nature composts what it has created to nurture emergence
May 25 - Session Seven
"Synergy"— beauty, complexity and working together: building resilient communities and habits of mind
June 8 - Session Eight
"Transmutation"— how engagement with the other changes us: shadow work and the ecological challenges we face now
June 29 - Session Nine
"Transformation"— healing and seeding deep shifts in values and worldviews one idea, one action at a time
July 6 - Session Ten
"Interrelationship"— deepening care, joy and compassion for the earth community, nurturing the beauty we create and remembering we are sponsored by the earth
July 20 - Session Eleven
"Radiance"— we can become vessels for the magnificence of the universe in resonance with our depth of feeling

Session Agenda:
In each session, I will set the tone in a short grounding meditation to set the container for our space. After a 10 minute check in I will share a guided presentation for 40 mins. with a break for questions. We will participate in Council Circle for 30 minutes to share individual and group reflections, practicing deep listening, and then intentionally close the space.

All sessions are recorded.

Cancellations:
Cancellations received before March 14 are refunded the full program fee.
We ask participants to commit to the entire course; to preserve the cohesion of the cohort we do not offer a drop-in option.

Resources:
Participants receive a wealth of resources including:

links to The Powers of the Universe recorded studio sessions with Dr. Brian Swimme
complete digital transcripts of each segment
comprehensive related bibliography and relevant media
individual mentoring by request

Participant's Comments

"Thank you Ann, this work is needed and should be taught in all classrooms and universities." —Heidi B., The Power of Partnership online series, 2017

“Thank you Ann, such a gracious and stunningly generous steward you are to us...for your guidance, your knowledge, your wisdom I am grateful... such rich, fertile ground.” —M. P. , What Does the Universe Do? pilot immersion learning group

“I want to live fully awake and alive and honor the universe. I am challenged to put action into my thoughts. My worldview as well as my teaching is being reshaped.” —Universe Story online course; K-12 teacher

“Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and insights to the powers of the universe...I found the information profoundly moving and filling a vacuum in me that seemed to be waiting for this.” —P. E., What Does the Universe Do? introduction

Journey of the Universe

An epic story of cosmic, earth, and human Transformation! This EMMY® Award-Winning Documentary, written by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker, connects such big picture issues as the birth of the cosmos 14 billion years ago – to the invisible frontiers of the human genome – as well as to our current impact on Earth’s evolutionary dynamics. Watch the video

Centration

Allurement

Emergence

Homeostasis

Cataclysm

Synergy

Transmutation

Transformation

Interrelationship

Radiance

Seamlessness

In the Powers of the Universe Immersion we will:

Learn to cultivate an embodied awareness—through feeling, sensing, intuiting or imagining, and thinking— of the ten cosmological dynamics and the relationships between them
Reflect on our emerging consciousness of how the Powers as mythic archetypal ‘gods’ of our time in a depth psychological context
Consider how awareness of the powers in our everyday lives shape our worldview and can inform our approach to complex systems including climate change, technology and economics
Cultivate a collaborative group spirit through focused dialogue, imagery, dream work, council circles and contemplative practices
Build our capacity to use our curiosity and our boundaries to become containers for eros and beauty
Strengthen our felt sense of how we might enter a participatory consciousness with the dream of the earth
Begin to inhabit a larger, relational sense of inner sovereignty that can meet the world and its challenges in our present time

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