Cosmologist | Planetary healer | Author | Gardener | Traveller | Abba fan |
Jude Currivan PhD
DR JUDE CURRIVAN is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. 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, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic world-view. This underpins her work aimed at enabling transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues, raising awareness and empowering fundamental change and sustainable solutions to global problems.
She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Master’s Degree in Physics from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics. And she is the author of seven non-fiction books currently available in 16 languages and 26 countries including CosMos – A Co-creator’s Guide to the Whole-World co-authored with Dr Ervin Laszlo. Her latest is The Cosmic Hologram- In-formation at the Center of Creation, the first book of the Transformation trilogy and which won a silver Nautilus Book Award for 2017. Book two of the trilogy The Story of GAIA: The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of our Conscious Planet is published late 2022
For the last two decades years she has also travelled around the world in service to planetary and collective healing, some of which is described in her books The 8th Chakra, The 13th Step and most recently HOPE – Healing Our People & Earth. In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View to facilitate the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness in service to conscious evolution.
www.judecurrivan.com
My 10 Best
(In no particular order)
Conversations With God Book 1
That was a time in my life when I thought I’d come to a place where I was going to stay – my forever home, my forever work, my forever then husband, and it was like everything got thrown up in the air and over a short period of time. I had an astrologer friend read my chart in 1999 and she read my transits,for the year and her face drained of color. She didn’t say anything for a while then said, “By the end of the year, you may have lost quite a few things that you thought you needed but you didn’t, but you will still have what you truly need.” And she didn’t say anything more than that. My house went, my work went, my husband at the time went and I ended up at the end of that year in a tiny little cottage with well water and a generator and my beloved cat Clovis to turn the millennium. And everything came from there. Neale’s book fell off the shelf and I went straight through the Conversations and by then I think there were at least three. And they nurtured my soul during that period; they helped me not to fall apart and understand there was a deeper purpose for what was happening. I may not be able to see it for the challenge that it was, but they brought me into that place of deep trust. It was almost like a life raft in a very stormy ocean.
Benedictus
I was invited to be the senior advisor for someone doing a PhD on John O’Donohue. I loved his work but being a Senior Advisor to someone doing a PhD, it helps if you know about the subject you’re advising on. I went deep into John O’Donohue’s work and found it incredible and inspiring. He had a book I already knew, Anam Cara, which is very beautiful, but I got Benedictus, which means blessings, and it is a book of blessings. It’s a blessing for strangers, a blessing for the end of the day, it’s a blessing for grief, a blessing for joy, a blessing for different times of the year for beginnings or endings. It’s as broad as so much of our lives; he brings forth these beautiful words, poetic blessings that really resonate at a deep heart level—gratitudes and blessings—and it’s one that I dip into because if there’s something in my life, I’ll open the book and see there’s a blessing for it. If it’s a challenge it will ease me, if it’s a Woo Hoo! It will heighten even further. It’s such a beautiful gift of his genius and spirit, so accessible and speaks to us.
Earth Prayers From Around the World
Before everything fell apart, I was living in this beautiful big house near the stone circle of Avebury in Wiltshire which I still very much live in and love that landscape. We used to hold ceremony at Avebury at the Celtic 8-fold year – the Solstices, the Equinoxes, and then the 4 quarter points; the start of February, the start of May, the start of August, and the start of November. I came across the bookstore, The Henge, in Avebury and found this book of 365 Earth Prayers that are from all over the world and many different traditions. The folks I was with would attune to an Earth prayer and we would invite and welcome and share in all the events, workshops, rituals and ceremonials we did over the years. I’ve been using it now for well over 20 years, and I still invite and welcome and love its poetry, its invocations that all honor Gaia. It contains prayers from people like Walt Whitman, Thich Nhat Hanh, Black Elk, Margaret Atwood ,and many traditions. Some are anonymous and some are Jewish, Indigenous, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, secular, all traditions and all are very beautiful, and speak to the heart
The Living Universe
Duane Elgin has been a campaigner and Earth guide for many, many decades. We’ve known one another for quite some time, and the book asks, “Where are we? Who are we? Where are we going?” About 20 years ago, before I wrote any books, I was given guidance that I’d eventually write a trilogy titled, The Transformation Trilogy. In 2017 I wrote The Cosmic Hologram, and in 2022, The Story of Gaia. And there’s a third book to come that is provisionally titled, Many Voices, One Heart. I was told the first book would help us understand who we are and where we are; the second book would be again, who we are, where we are, and perhaps where we might go. And the third book would be very much where we go. Duane’s work spoke to me – all the books I love speak to me on the level of mind, heart, purpose and soul – and the title itself, The Living Universe, speaks to me because all the work I’ve done over so many years ,and certainly in The Cosmic Hologram and The Story of Gaia, speaks to an essentially living and evolutionary universe where mind and consciousness is not something we have, they’re literally what we and the whole world are, and the universe exists to evolve meaningfully and purposefully. So, I think that’s the other point about Duane’s book. It really resonated with me from that perspective, a relationship with a livin, symbiotic universe.
Wisdom of the Rishis
This particular book is written by a very wise man, Sri M. I had the great joy of both meeting and working with him when he came to London a while ago. We did a walk together with a number of folks around London churches, mosques and synagogues – a walk of unity and hope. He’s such a wonderful man and I found out about his book and, again, he’s passionate about the convergence of science and spirituality. And, of course, the ancient Indian traditions was exactly that—that consciousness is the nature of reality. He was born a Muslim, attracted to the Vedic teachings at an early age and met his guru at the age of 9. And he’s been on that journey ever since. He says, “Rather than choosing any specific religion or tradition, he teaches the universal essence of all religions.” Consciousness is the nature of reality.
The Coming Interspiritual Age
This is the first book to review and predict the ongoing history of world religions and spirituality in the context of developmental history, the evolutionary consciousness movement. Kurt was a monk for a number of years, and he used to work with pioneers of interfaith such as Wayne Teasdale and others. He’s an extraordinary man and a good friend of mine. What is particularly helpful is that he’s showing a confluence, an ongoing direction of travel possible through the commonality of underlying truths that are fundamental to each and all of the religions, which is spiritual more than organizational ,and really bring those together so these themes of inter-spirituality can be understood as a direction for us. Another friend, Elizabeth Sahtouris, has this great metaphor of consciousness, and all is consciousness, as a piano keyboard, just different notes and vibrations. The spirituality folk stand on the high notes and look down on the bottom and the ones on the bottom look up and go, you’re out of here. You know, it’s the whole keyboard and the more we work together across the keyboard within ourselves, and together with that unity and diversity, that’s ultimately what collective human evolutionary consciousness is all about. Kurt’s work very clearly brought the potential of perceiving inter-spirituality, but still grounded in traditions and faith-based cultures. It’s a natural tradition that expands and appreciates what connects us, what joins us, and what we have in common. I believe this is going to hit the mainstream very quickly. Two of the Nobel Laureates this year in Physics, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger, are all about universal non-locality. Professor Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw say that space and time emerge from deep levels of something – they don’t know what it is, but they know that the appearance of our universe is not its fundamental reality and they’re just about to bring out a book on the subject.
Not-Two Is Peace
What does that title mean? Adi Da teaches unity and diversity but his languaging is prior unity so that is a sense of prior unity that is differentiated into 2 or 3 or more so when he says “Not Two is Peace,” he means that when you realize that you’re inseparable, there is differentiation but not separation, then that is the way of peace. That’s what he means by the title. I’m good friends with two of his closest devotees and colleagues when he was on Earth. In November 2018, we organized a gathering, with breakout groups in Westminster Abbey and The House of Lords, but the date we chose without knowing it was the 10th anniversary of his passing. So all of the Adi Da community sent us a blessing for our unity conference in London that day. Beautifully synchronous. The book is about how do you bring this unity and diversity into lived experience, everyday life? And that’s what he means – the ordinary people’s way of global cooperation, and I love that.
The Lord of the Rings
I have all three volumes in this one book and it’s beautiful, incredibly thin like tissue paper. It was given to me as a 21st birthday present so my copy is 50 years old next year. It’s got all the maps in it, too. Weirdly, I was 13 or 14 when I came across it. A friend of mine at school knew my love of fantasy and said, “You must love Lord of the Rings,” and I hadn’t read it. I went to the library and read it voraciously and by the time this beautiful copy was given to me when I was 21, I think I’d read it about five times. I’ve always loved it and I love the Peter Jackson films; there’s so much in it that speaks to me. When you know Tolkien’s story—I went to Oxford and he would meet folks at the pub, the Bird & Baby as it’s sometimes called. I loved the trees – the Ents. I loved Samwise Gamgee, this incredibly ordinary Hobbit who becomes an extraordinary hero, and Legolas of course, and Gandalf. I love Tolkien’s advocation of Middle Earth the beauty of it and England where he was walking and the beauty of our land. The other thing is he didn’t just write the book, he created an entire cosmology and a language—everything.
Quadrivium
The Quadrivian is a beautiful book which is edited by Joe Martin. It’s a summary of a 4-level educational system based on ancient wisdom, a cosmology of wholeness, harmony and consciousness. And wiithin that, the other three aspects of it are Geometry, which is numbe,r but number in space as geometry and number in time as music, and number itself in terms of archetypes and then all of it wrapped in a sort of unity into a base framework of a unified cosmology. That four-fold education was given to mystery schools and medieval academies across many traditions, and it is now at the leading edge of science as we’re also realizing that number, geometry, music, wholeness are fundamental. The book is relatively recent. It gave me a sense of joy that all I’ve been researching, studying in many different ways for so long—decades on decades on decades—finally had been brought together. The sub-title is “The 4 Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music and Cosmology,” and that’s what you get, so it’s how to make the perfect universe. It’s an easy read.
The Book of Joy
What two wonderful, inspiring souls. Both of them had their trials and tribulations and to come through all of that laughing and full of joy. And that is exactly the example. I talk about going beyond being a role model to being a soul model and for me those two are soul models. You never see either without their infectious laughter the whole time. They’re laughing at their own jokes. They are just who they seem to be and, to me, are an example of soul modeling.