Brian Thomas Swimme is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness department at California Institute of Integral Studies and Director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a public benefit non-profit that focuses on scientific and interdisciplinary research on the future of human collective consciousness. Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. He is the host of the Emmy-award winning PBS special Journey of the Universe, written with Mary Evelyn Tucker.

Swimme's Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe is an early example of the autocosmology genre combining contemporary science and cosmological phenomenology. His recent book, written with Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, illustrated by Sebastian Swimme, and commissioned by Human Energy, is companion to the YouTube series with the same title, The Story of the Noosphere.