Monday, June 23, 2014

The Noosphere










The Noosphere, the thinking layer of Earth, grows stronger as collective consciousness evolves. We are connected more than ever to our sensor-filled world through the internet and this is expanding our consciousness and strengthening the Noosphere. Intuit this in deep meditation.
James



Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (1881–1955) was a French philosopher, Jesuit priest, trained paleontologist and geologist. Teilhard, in 1925, coined the term “Noosphere”, to demote the mind-sphere or the mental sheath surrounding the earth above the biosphere, the sphere of life.  His vision of the noosphere was a “transforming agency of hominization.” Julian Huxley preferred to think of the noosphere’s role as a transforming agent for “progressive psychosocial evolution,” rather than hominization.  


[i] Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de. The Phenomenon of Man. NY: Harper Perennial, 2008.