Teilhard de Chardin in Le Phenomene Humain (The Phenomenon of Man) 1955...
We
have used the term mega-synthesis. Within a better understanding of the collective,
it seems to me that the world should be understood without attenuation or
metaphors when applied to the sum of all human beings. The universe is necessarily
homogeneous in its nature and dimensions. Would it still be so if the loops
of its spiral lost one jot or tittle of their degree of reality or consistence
in ascending ever higher? The still unnamed Thing which the gradual combination
of individuals, peoples and races will bring into existence, must needs be
supra-physical, not infra-physical, if it is to be coherent
with the rest. Deeper than the common act in which it expresses itself, more
important than the common power of action from which it emerges by a sort
of self-birth, lies reality itself, constituted by the living reunion of reflective
particles.
And
what does that amount to if not (and it is quite credible) that the stuff
of the universe, by becoming thinking, has not yet completed its evolutionary
cycle, and that we are therefore moving towards some new critical point that
lies ahead. In spite of its organic links, whose existence has everywhere
become apparent to us, the biosphere has so far been no more than a network
of divergent lines, free at their extremities. By effect of reflection and
the recoils it involves, the loose ends will be tied up, and the noosphere
tends to constitute a single closed system in which each element sees, feels,
desires, and suffers for itself the same things as all the others at the same
time.
We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses equivalent to a sort of super-consciousness. The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered by myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection.
This is the general form in which, by analogy and in symmetry with the past, we are led scientifically to envisage the future of mankind, without whom no terrestrial issue is open to the terrestrial demands of our action.
To the common sense of the 'man in the street' and even to a certain philosophy of the world to which nothing is possible save what has always been, perspectives such as these will seem highly improbable. But to a mind become familiar with the fantastic dimensions of the universe they will, on the contrary, seem quite natural, because they are simply proportionate with the astronomical immensities.
In
the direction of thought, could the universe terminate with anything less
than the measureless---any more than it could in the direction of time and
space?
One thing at any rate is sure--from the moment we adopt a thoroughly realistic view of the noosphere and of the hyper-organic nature of social bonds, the present situation of the world becomes clearer; for we find a very simple meaning for the profound troubles which disturb the layer of mankind at this moment.
The two-fold crisis whose onset began in earnest as early as the Neolithic age and which rose to a climax in the modern world, derives in the first place from mass-formation (we might call it a 'planetisation') of mankind. Peoples and civilizations reached such a degree either of frontier contact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they could no longer develop save by interpenetration of one another. But it also arises out of the fact that, under the combined influence of machinery and the super-heating of thought, we are witnessing a formidable upsurge of unused powers. Modern man no longer knows what to do with the time and the potentialities he has unleashed. We groan under the burden of this wealth. We are haunted by the fear of 'unemployment'. Sometimes we are tempted to trample this super-abundance back into the matter from which it sprang without stopping to think how impossible and monstrous such an act against nature would be.
When we consider the increasing compression of elements at the heart of a free energy which is also relentlessly increasing, how can we fail to see in this two-fold phenomenon the two perennial symptoms of a leap forward of the 'radial'--that is to say, of a new step in the genesis of mind?
In order to avoid disturbing our habits we seek in vain to settle international disputes by adjustments of frontiers--or we treat as 'leisure' (to be whiled away) the activities at the disposal of mankind. As things are now going it will not be long before we run full tilt into one another. Something will explode if we persist in trying to squeeze into our old tumble-down huts the material and spiritual forces that are henceforwared on the scale of a world.
A
new domain of psychical expansion--that is what we lack. And it is staring
us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.
Peace through conquest, work in joy. These are waiting for us beyond the line where empires are setup against other empires, in an interior totalization of the world upon itself, in the unanimous construction of a spirit of the earth.
BACK to story
BACK to Tillman Page
...and that’s exactly how anger works and operates
***, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y’all, y’all
It just ain’t the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane?
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don’t belong
Nations droppin’ bombs
Chemical gases fillin’ lungs of little ones
With the ongoin’ sufferin’ as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin’ really gone?
So I could ask myself really what is goin’ wrong
In this world that we livin’ in people keep on givin’ in
Makin’ wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin’ each other, deny thy brother!
A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover
The truth is kept secret, it’s swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where’s the love, y’all? come on! (I don’t know)
Where’s the truth, y’all? come on! (I don’t know)
Where’s the love, y’all?
I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I’m gettin’ older, y’all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin’
Selfishness got us followin’ the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo’, whatever happened to the values of humanity?
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality?
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ under
That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ down
There’s no wonder why sometimes I’m feelin’ under
Gotta keep my faith alive til love is found
-the Black-Eyed Peas
lyrics...download...black eyed peas...lyrics