Comments - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Gaia Community2024-03-28T20:51:12Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A349&xn_auth=no We stand today at the be…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2020-06-27:5313775:Comment:386082020-06-27T12:17:53.093ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>We stand today at the beginning of Teilhard's</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> third</strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> phase of…</span></span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>We stand today at the beginning of Teilhard's</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> third</strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> phase of</span></span> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">evolution, the </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">moment at which</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> <em>the world</em></span></strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong> is covered with the incandescent glow</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong> of </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>consciousness</strong></span></em>. Teilhard characterized this as</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> "<strong>evolution becoming conscious</strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> of [IT]self</strong>." <br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> The Net, </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">that great collectivizer of minds, is the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> <strong>primary tool for our emergence into the third</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> phase and as<span> <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-global-neural-network-noosphere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Perry Barlow</a> says...</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> "<strong>With cyberspace</strong>, <strong>we are</strong>, <strong>in effect</strong>, [<strong>NOW]</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> <strong>hard</strong>-<strong>wiring the collective consciousness</strong>,"</span></p>
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<p></p> “Just as the biosphere is th…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2016-03-02:5313775:Comment:208242016-03-02T08:29:01.337ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><br></br>“<strong>Just as <em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=870444416317144" rel="noopener" target="_blank">the biosphere</a></em> is the unified field of life</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> and its support systems</strong>…so …</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><br/>“<strong>Just as <em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=870444416317144" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the biosphere</a></em> is the unified field of life</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> and its support systems</strong>…so <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/for-starters-what-s-a-noosphere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the noosphere</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em> is the unified field of the mind,</em> the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1222190081142574" target="_blank" rel="noopener">psychic</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1222190081142574" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reflection of the biosphere</a></strong>. Because <em>we as a</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em> species, <strong>the aggregate of consciousness-bearing</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong> cells of the evolving Earth</strong>, are not yet </em></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>awake to </em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong> our role as a planetary organism</strong>,</em> <strong>so too the</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> noosphere is not yet fully conscious</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><br/> When humanity <strong>becomes conscious of itself as</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> a single organism</strong> and <em><strong>unites to activate the</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong> noosphere</strong></em>, we will find <strong><em>the collective resolve</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em> and will to reconstruct the biosphere</em></strong> and divert</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> the energy of the human race from a path of</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> destruction based on a mechanised abstraction from</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> nature to <strong>a new harmonic order of super-organic</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> reality based on an entirely different state</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong> of </strong><strong>consciousness than has yet existed on Earth</strong>.”<br/><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><br/></span><a class="result-snippet-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles"></a></p>
<p class="result-snippet"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1152576474770602" target="_blank" rel="noopener">José Argüelles</a></b></span></p>
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<p></p> At the beginning of the twe…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-05-29:5313775:Comment:144332013-05-29T14:08:52.676ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong>At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the notion that <em><a href="http://andrewcohen.org/blog/evolutionary-influences-brief-history-evolutionary-spirituality" target="_blank">the evolutionary process is ultimately driven by a spiritual impulse</a></em> is continuing to gain traction, with a growing number of progressive philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.</strong></p>
<p>To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the…</p>
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<p><strong>At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the notion that <em><a href="http://andrewcohen.org/blog/evolutionary-influences-brief-history-evolutionary-spirituality" target="_blank">the evolutionary process is ultimately driven by a spiritual impulse</a></em> is continuing to gain traction, with a growing number of progressive philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.</strong></p>
<p>To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality in a way that no other theory can. But others, like <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-human-cycle" target="_blank">Aurobindo</a></strong> before them, are beginning to reach beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully took to heart the reality of this view?</p>
<p><strong>Freed from <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bluestone-enigma" target="_blank">the mythic dogmatisms</a> of premodern religion</em>, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?</strong></p>
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<p></p> The Evolutionary's Guide to…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-04-06:5313775:Comment:141152013-04-06T06:47:23.882ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-evolutionary-story-of-y-our-species" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Evolutionary's Guide to Changing the World</a></strong>.</p>
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<p><span>In his 1955 masterpiece </span><strong><em>The Phenomenon of Man</em></strong><span>, French priest and</span></p>
<p><span>paleontologist </span><span><strong><a href="http://www.lawoftime.org/noosphere/theoryandhistory.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Pierre…</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-evolutionary-story-of-y-our-species" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Evolutionary's Guide to Changing the World</a></strong>.</p>
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<p><span>In his 1955 masterpiece </span><strong><em>The Phenomenon of Man</em></strong><span>, French priest and</span></p>
<p><span>paleontologist </span><span><strong><a href="http://www.lawoftime.org/noosphere/theoryandhistory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</a></strong> wrote the following words:</span></p>
<p><span>"<strong>Evolution is <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/information-is-the-light" target="_self">a light <em>which illuminates </em></a></strong></span><em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/information-is-the-light" target="_self">all facts</a></strong></em><strong>, a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/1152565688105014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curve <em>that all lines</em></a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/1152565688105014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">must follow</a></strong>." Over the course of the past half century since <span>its</span></p>
<p><span>publication, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as</span></p>
<p><span>evolution has become </span><span>a defining framework in which we are beginning</span></p>
<p><span>to understand virtually everything - from </span><span>biology and technology to the</span></p>
<p><span>interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural </span><span>worldviews,</span></p>
<p><span>and <strong><em>even <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-is-is" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spirituality</a></em>.<br/><br/><br/></strong></span></p>
<p>Pierre Teilhard de Chardin goes on to propose in <strong><a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2287&C=2164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chapter 3: The</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2287&C=2164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand Option</a></strong> of his book, which he aptly entitled <strong>The Future of</strong></p>
<p><strong>Mankind</strong> ... "<span>This being so, let us look at the human species</span></p>
<p><span>and <strong>SEE IF we can fit it into the scheme</strong>. Because we ate a part of it,</span></p>
<p><span>because the rhythm of its </span><span>growth is infinitely slow in comparison with</span></p>
<p><span>our own, and because its grandeur overwhelms us, </span><span><strong>Mankind</strong>, <em><strong>in its</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span><em><strong>total evolution</strong></em>, <em><strong>escapes our <span style="text-decoration: underline;">intuitive</span> g<span style="text-decoration: underline;">ras</span>p</strong></em>. <strong>But may we not see</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>reflected in </strong></span><span><strong>the life around us things that we cannot see directly</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>in ourselves</strong>? <strong>Let us study ourselves </strong></span><span><strong>in the </strong></span><strong>mirror of other living</strong></p>
<p><strong>forms</strong>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1154251167936466" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>WHAT DO WE SEE</strong> ?</a> "</p>
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