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Episode 1: Bruteau's spiritual journey (26 min.)
As an undergraduate, studying mathematics and physics, Bruteau was "feeling for something that you'd have to call mystical, and I wasn't finding anything that suited me," she tells Tom Fox. Then one day in a drug store waiting for a friend to buy a toothbrush, Bruteau discovered a paperback book that would change her life. "All the important things in my life have been the sheerest accidents. You would hardly believe that this would be the thing. ... I see the whole cosmic adventure as a creative activity on the part of the Divine."
Episode 2: The role of the human being is creativity (23 min.)
"The more that we have consciousness, the more we participate in the exegesis of the Infininte One. ... Our role, as human beings, is to continue the creative action," Bruteau tells interviewer Fox. "How are we not God?" she says in response to a question. "There is no way we are 'not God' because there cannot be any 'not God.' That is because God is infinite."
Episode 3: Fear: Today's spiritual challenge (16 min.)
Bruteau tells Tom Fox: "All our challenges can be reduced to efforts by one party to dominate other parties. This shows in persons, corporations, nations, religions, and warfare. ... This comes out of a psychology of fear. The basis of this fear is that we don't have a basic hold on existence. We see others precisely as others, not as equals, as children of God. ... The deeper truth is the truth of mutual affirmation and not mutual negation."
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Bruteau's books include The Holy Thursday Revolution and God's Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World . Her studies and interests combine the spiritual and scientific as she seeks the mystical in the material and the vast creativity of God in the temporal unfolding of the cosmos. Like Teilhard de Chardin, Bruteau believes that we are at a unique juncture in history where, perhaps for the first time, evolution will not be primarily physical in nature but rather will be noetic -- a transformation or mutation of consciousness.