…sense in which we ordinarily use that. Now this idea is basically just catholicism with the chrome stripped off, or you know, Teilhard De chardinism of a certain sort, the idea of the omega point, the idea of a telos attracting and drawing history into…

…I mean about provincial thinking. First of all it's limited to a tiny fraction of the cosmos, and I see the same problem with Teilhard De Chardin is the omega point just about human destiny on earth or just the destiny of the earth or even the solar…

…Anything you can say about it out of the language that it springs is necessarily unfaithful to it. Well I think that Teilhard De Chardin had in mind something more like what we've got, except there was the change in consciousness so that practically every…

…I find that lately I have no trouble in telling embarrassing stories about myself. What I'm thinking about is Terence's rhapsodizing about Teilhard de Chardin. You see, the last time that I had a conversation with Terence is when I was working on the…

…part. I took that to mean that he didn't know much at all about him. So I proceeded to lecture him about how Teilhard had prophesied the Internet. And Terence never let on that he'd already long ago come to the same conclusion, which I later realized…

…everybody else a little bit further in the months ahead. Now I'm wondering if I'm also the only one who thought of Teilhard E. Chardin's important book, the phenomena of man, when Terence was talking about the approach of an omega point. Of course that…

…And over the next few months, you'll be hearing a lot more from me about that book. But here's the headline. In 1962, I read Teilhard de Chardin's phenomena of man. But until I read Homo Deos, no other book has ever made as deep an impact on me as…

…or little that anybody has said about cyberspace, about the meltdown of humanity into some electronic collectivity, has been surpassed by Teilhard de Chardin. He had this idea that human beings were on this earth and that they would generate what he called…

…about, except his idea was there. Ok, we prepare for this not by buying Windows 95 computer. We prepare for this, according to Teilhard de Chardin, by doing spiritual exercises alone, by doing tai chi by the lake. And after a few years, years of this,…