“Mysteries of the Sacred Universe A video produced by Sadaputa Dasa (Dr. Richard L. Thompson) based on the book of the same title.
The Mysteries of the Sacred Universe video shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical, geographical, and spiritual world models.
It is illustrated with computer graphics animations and diagrams which make the subject matter come alive.”
Richard Leslie Thompson, also known as Sadaputa Dasa, was an American mathematician, author, and Gaudiya Vaishnava religious figure. Historian Meera Nanda described him as a driving intellectual force of ‘Vedic creationism’ due to his co-authorship with Michael Cremo of Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (1993), a work criticized by the scientific community.
Thompson published books and articles on religion-science relationships, Hindu cosmology, and astronomy. He was a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and a founding member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, which examines the relationship between modern scientific theories and the Vaishnava worldview.
In the ‘science and religion’ community, he articulated ISKCON’s view of science. Danish historian Mikael Rothstein described Thompson as the dominant writer on science in ISKCON, and C. Mackenzie Brown, a professor of religion, referred to him as the leading figure in ISKCON’s critique of modern science.