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That connects," a "wholeness," the concepts of gods and a universal Types of complexity is the emergence of the intuition of a "pattern Natural for the universe to become complex in new ways, so one of those Sentience and interconnectedness, from bird-brains and bird-calls to Will give birth to a noosphere, a category that includes all forms of Life (the geosphere generating the biosphere), so too the biosphere Point is that just as it was natural for the earth to give birth to Growing realm of reflections about our metaphysical origins, and his Teilhard coined the term "theosphere" to describe the Rather than being opposed to religion, was indeed how creation Paleontologist had a quasi-mystical insight that rather then evolution, This phenomenon in part explains the accelerating growth of all sorts Into the internet, video games, 3-D graphic animated films, etc. Modes of production, and since McLuhan's work, now these have evolved Innumerable sub-forms and varieties of expressions come from this, Photography and radio mix, not only does television result, but "hybrids" that in turn "release great energy." For example, when Two or more technologies-these fusions might be recognized as Think.) McLuhan noted that when two media are mixed-and I might add, Read among intellectuals over the next ten years-his pointĮssentially being that each medium has its own In 1964 (picture below right) (This and related books were quite widely (See a picture on the left.) A related point was made by Marshall McLuhan, an academic who published the book Understanding Media One of my points is that genes, culture, and technology co-evolveĪnd potentials are released in the mind that may not have been activeīefore. The right is a picture of the human becoming more conscious, lighting (Disney-Pixar, 2008, computer-graphic-animated). There's a fair chance our species hasīecome more cancer-like and will end up generating its own extinction,Īlong with a goodly amount of life on this planet-as hinted out in So complicated that we cannot know for sure, know comprehensively, and Instead of stupidly and self-destructively. Inventions, and the question now is whether we can become explicitlyĪware of this process and, based on this growing awareness of its manyįacets, begin to exercise increasing influence so that we evolve wisely Far more complexity has emerged from relative simplicity,Īnd this applies not just to biological systems, but stellar systems,Įcosystems, and all streams within the ever-accelerating history ofĬonsciousness has been evolving with the history of writing and other Included heavier elements, with the emergence of life, something new Much change in the status of what was involved-the rise and fall ofĭynasties and even empires, maybe even the birth and death of stars,īut that with the birth of more and more interstellar material that Gradually, peopleīegan to realize that many things had not just risen and fallen without
#Visionaries by shade control series#
To the lecture series on "interspirituality" given for the SeniorĪpplied to biology, a historical-genetic approach. The underlying dynamics of spirituality and religion. The sixth lecture considers the essential unity of all faiths and "The Great Story, about cosmic evolution, presented in June 2009) (Here is the link to a related lecture on This is the fifth lecture and will consider theĮvolution of consciousness. The fourth lecture presented visionaries in the arena of education and creativity. Lecture addressed visionaries in psychology. Of visionary and the different types, considering the paradigm shifts (This is the 5th of a 6-lecture series for Senior University Georgetown, October 24, 2011) Lecture 5: Visionaries: Consciousness Evolution
