Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, and co-founder of Whole World View. Having grown up as the daughter of a coal miner in the north of England, she has since journeyed to more than eighty countries around the world and for the last twenty -five years has lived in the sacred landscape of Avebury. She has experienced multidimensional realities since early childhood and worked with the wisdom keepers both incarnate and discarnate of many traditions. Jude integrates leading-edge science, consciousness research, and universal wisdom teachings into a holistic worldview. This underpins her work to enable transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues, raise awareness, and empower fundamental change and sustainable solutions to global problems. She holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Master’s Degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in cosmology and quantum physics. She is the author of seven non-fiction books currently available in 16 languages and 26 countries.
For anyone interested in the overlaps between ageless wisdom and science, this is an important book. Gaia’s story explores the discoveries and understanding, both leading-edge and ancient, that have progressively perceived how our Universe began and, from its earliest epoch, the long path that would eventually lead to our home world and the myriad abundance of children she has birthed, including ourselves.
The author begins with several ancient teachings, quoting the I Ching, “In the beginning was the One, the One became two, then became three, and from the three, ten thousand things were born.” She mentions the ancient Greeks and their intuitive understanding of numbers, pointing out that the Big Breath also reflects the Vedic perspective of the Breath of Brahman.
She further reminds us, how the ancient Greeks and many Indigenous peoples “viewed the Earth as a living being: a goddess and a mother. They called her Gaia.”
Dr. Jude Currivan examines in this book the emergence of self-aware members of the Universe which is a unified entity. She shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and explains that evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processes.
The author details the 13.8-billion-year story of our Universe where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Showing how the Universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing “big breath,” she shares the latest evidence for the innate sentience that has guided our universal journey from simplicity to ever-greater complexity, diversity, and self-awareness – from protons to planets, plants, and people.
She brings together extensive scientific knowledge, evolutionary biology, cosmic insight, and embodied wisdom with brilliant attunement and insights before each chapter, leading the reader on a unified path toward greater wholeness.
You can find on her website a short video about “The Story of Gaia – Big Breath” and I think it’s worth watching. There are quite a few videos with her on YouTube and this is the link to her talk at the Theosophical Society in 2022 “A Whole World-View of the Universe, Gaia, and Us: Helping to Explain the Unexplained”.