Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this endeavor he became enthralled with the possibilities for humankind, which he saw as heading for an exciting convergence of systems, an "Omega point" where the coalescence of consciousness will lead us to a new state of peace and planetary unity. Long before ecology was fashionable, he saw this unity as being based intrinsically upon the spirit of the Earth. Studied in England. Traveled to numerous countries, including China, as missionary.
Died in New York City on Easter 1955
“The day will come when,after harnessing the winds, the tides and graviation,we shall harness for God the energies of love.And on that day,for the second time in the history of the world,man will have discovered fire.”
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“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”
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“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”
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“We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.”
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“The whole life lies in the verb seeing.”
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