…those kinds of people will be a culture more civilized than any that we have seen so far. If I can paraphrase Teilhard De Chardin for a moment he said, or I will paraphrase him this way: when the human race understands the potential of the…

…for years I know that in a sense our points of view probably meet in the ideas of someone like Teilhard De Chardin, who was a great secular thinker, an evolutionary primatologist and a great religious thinker, philosopher, jesuit, theologian and so forth…

…religious thinker, philosopher, jesuit, theologian and so forth and so on and I don't know how much brother David knows about Teilhard De Chardin a lot I'm hoping he was very important in my own growth. Well maybe you could say something about all that.…

…he was very important in my own growth. Well maybe you could say something about all that. Well I'd rather not start with Teilhard De Chardin but when you were first of all with the topic, because it came as a Surprise to me, Terence and I as Terence…

…and I see this as the feminine, the goddess re emerging into three dimensional space in the form of this what Teilhard De Chardin called the noosphere, but which is more correctly identified as Sophia, the emanation of wisdom as a feminine spirit as…

…and I see this as the feminine, the goddess re emerging into three dimensional space in the form of this what Teilhard De Chardin called the new sphere, but which is more correctly identified as Sophia, the emanation of wisdom as a feminine spirit, as…

…you see to be very like I don't know if you like this or not the similarity, but like the omega point of Teilhard De Chardin, which he sees as the goal or attractor of the entire universe. And if there is to be a model of morphogenetic fields…

…from in our civilization. The idea of it just going on and on and on and on and on forever isn't very attractive. The Teilhard De Chardin view of an omega point is the idea of there being an end or goal to history. And then, of course there's the…

…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 a change in consciousness so that practically every person…

…networks, DNA sequencing, and, and, and, and what is the question? The technosphere, the biosphere, the cultural sphere which Teilhard De Chardin called the noosphere, is in a state of forced self transformation. We're undergoing and by we I don't know…

…thinking project which has as its vector I call it concrescence following Whitehead's Neoplatonism, one could call it god Teilhard. De Chardin called it the omega point but the process by which knowing transforms itself from some kind of aboriginal…

…globalizing of intelligence, new as this sounds you know these kinds of ideas have been around for a while if you haven't read Teilhard De Chardin, who you know my god s j right, and he talks about an omega point and what he calls the noosphere, the…

…religious teachers relate to this technical thing, to me the more interesting relational approach to it is through somebody like Teilhard De Chardin, who I take as my direct inspiration. I never read de Chardin that carefully when he was hot but since…

…evolution. His great insight was to see geology, biology and sociology as a continuous spectrum. And McLuhan talked a lot about Teilhard De Chardin. With McLuhan you never knew whether he was being entirely serious or just going for the good line but he…

…and the sum of parts is only when you connect them up they can really achieve a higher purpose. And this is what Teilhard De Chardin was talking about except his idea was there. Okay we prepare for this not by buying a Windows 95 computer we prepare…

…except his idea was there. Okay we prepare for this not by buying a 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 of this we have a kind…

…description of the imagination from the cosmic attractor, which sounds to me like a combination of Plato, Thomas Taylor and Teilhard De Chardin. It's the idea of the omega point and Teilhard De Chardin is the attractor of the whole evolutionary process.…

…to me like a combination of Plato, Thomas Taylor and Teilhard De Chardin. It's the idea of the omega point and Teilhard De Chardin is the attractor of the whole evolutionary process. It's all being drawn towards this end point which is actually very like…

…I think that this idea of attraction, it has ancient roots it's something that in this century has been brought out by Teilhard De Chardin. I think actually we have to have some notion of an attractor for the evolutionary process of the cosmos and this…

…partly a question of, as I see it what role one thinks the attractor has. I think that the cosmic attractor, as Teilhard De Chardin conceives it, or as aristotle conceives it is drawing things towards a state of higher unity. That's how you could Express…

…those kinds of people will be a culture more civilized than any that we have seen so far. If I can paraphrase Teilhard De Chardin for a moment, he said or I will paraphrase him this way: when the human race understands the potential of the…

…chrysalis of ideological constraint that technology is in the process of dissolving. William Butler saw this in the 19th century. Teilhard De Chardin reached it in the 40s and the 50s. Mcluhan Expressly articulated this vision in the 50s and the 60s. This…

…and it meshed well with an idea that I'd encountered in my youth which was the idea of the noosphere from Pierre Teilhard De Chardin. To go into that briefly, he was a jesuit and a paleontologist, and he saw no contradiction between them and he saw…

…Thomas Berry and Brian swim. One is a cultural historian and Catholic Priest in his 80s who's a student of Teilhard De Chardin, and the other one Brian swim is a mathematical cosmologist, and they basically articulate this kind of trajectory of evolution…

…real influence of something beyond humanity, beyond history, which Terence thinks there is, namely the transcendental object the attractor or as Teilhard De Chardin would put it the omega point? Or is there not? And if there is, how limited is it in its…

…seems to be, about something just happening on earth? And I have the same problem with Christian Apocalyptic speculation. Teilhard De Chardin for example he talks of the consciousness here is he talking about the transformation of this planet and of…

…about a different kind of thing. What about the timetable Terence? So far it seems like your idea is pretty similar to Teilhard De Chardin, Except you said he didn't give us a timetable. So assuming we have sunshine for 25 000 years, when do I think…