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Cosmology and Teilhard de Chardin

Presented by Alan Krema

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Teilhard de Chardin1881 ‐ 1955

Geologist  ‐ Paleontologist  ‐ Jesuit Priest

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truth of scientific discovery and truth of the mysticism

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Seeing ourselves.

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Observing Our Place

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Observing

Quote from Teilhard, “The Human Phenomenon”

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We are Three Centered Beings

Gift of seeing  ‐ mindfulness

Gift of knowing  ‐ heartfulness

Gift of doing  ‐ compassion

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CosmologyCosmology is a narrative which explains the universe we inhabit.

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Ancient Egyptian Cosmology

Anthropocentric – Human like God

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Medieval Cosmology

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Modern Cosmology

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Meaning

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Our Place in the Universe

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Scale and Perspective

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Scale and Perspective

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Scale

Cosmic Scale Video

Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack:  http://www.new‐universe.org/index.html

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Annunciation Marie Howe

Even if I don’t see it again—nor ever feel itI know it is—and that if once it hailed meit ever does—And so it is myself I want to turn in that directionnot as towards a place, but it was a tiltingwithin myself,as one turns a mirror to flash the light to whereit isn’t—I was blinded like that—and swamin what shone at meonly able to endure it by being no one and sospecifically myself I thought I’d diefrom being loved like that.

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Experience Energy – Matter Continuum

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Observation of Experience

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Reflection on Experience

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PART II

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Teilhard’s Story

1881 ‐ 1955

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Hominization

Centration ‐ Decentration ‐ Super‐centration

Law of World Creation

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Expanded Consciousness:Perspective and movement

Where is our center?

Vortex Video

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Noosphere – Global Consciousness

The form of the sphere was essential to Teilhard’’s thought.   The earth is formed as a sphere which has no edge.  

The circle of the geosphere and biosphere are a form that requires us to interconnect.

Teilhard envisioned an envelope of thought containing the earth, like a global brain.

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Connectedness

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LOVE: A cosmological force

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Evolution

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Evolution

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Evolution of the Cosmos as Consciousness

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Divinity

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Evolution

The Awakening of Love.  We are witnessing a quantum jump of consciousness and human unity.  

Desire for more life and more creativity, is the impetus of evolution

The deep impulse in each of us to express, to be, to create, to love more, is the impulse of evolution incarnate.

The more we feel this impulse and say yes to it, the more we become the impulse  This is a way to become one with the divine.

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Evolution as Emergence

Film clip by Brie StonerEvolution as Emergence

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Christ in Evolution

Eternal.  One with consciousness, source, and God

Embody.  We are the universe in person.  Incarnate.

Emerge.  The universe always wants more.  We emerge as the incarnate universe.  The impulse of evolution. The creator is creating co‐creators.

Eros.  Incarnating the impulse of evolution is to join and give birth to the creative human becoming.

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Divine Milieu

‐From “The Divinization of Our Activities” 

Get an image.

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OMEGA

This is the fruit of the development taking place in human experience…. If a Christian today can say to his God that he loves him with his whole body and soul and with the whole universe, he is not making a sudden and individual discovery; his act is the manifestation of a new and general state of the noosphere.

Cannot this state represent a further and final metamorphosis in progress since the birth of love in Christianity;  the coming to consciousness of an “Omega”:  in the heart of the noosphere –the circles’ motion toward their common center:  the appearance of the Theosphere”?

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PART III

ACTION

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Trinity

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Laudato Si

The ultimate destiny of the universe is in the fullness of God, which has already been attained by the risen Christ, the measure of the maturity of all things.53 ‐‐ pg. 61

53 Against this horizon we can set the contribution of Fr Teilhardde Chardin

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RIGHT ACTION FOLLOWS UNION". . . contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing that Christians do: it is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a renewed humanity that is capable of seeing the world and other subjects in the world with freedom‐‐freedom from self‐oriented, acquisitive habits and the distorted understanding that comes from them. To put it boldly, contemplation is the only ultimate answer to the unreal and insane world that our financial systems and our advertising culture and our chaotic and unexamined emotions encourage us to inhabit. To learn contemplative practice is to learn what we need so as to live truthfully and honestly and lovingly. It is a deeply revolutionary matter." ‐‐ Archbishop Rowan Williams, former leader of the Anglican Church in an address to the Synod of Catholic Bishops in Rome

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Contemplative Life is not Personal Salvation

Epistle on Prayer  ‐ Cloud Author

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What Will You Do?

“The heart of the world is calling for you with your special gifts and unique perspectives.  What can you do?  What will you do?  If each person does something, the whole planet will shift.  Sit quietly with your authentic heart and ask the question.  It is no accident that you are here at this time.  What draws you?” 

Jean Huston, The Wizard of Us, pg 83.

Sennen:  Where the Light Gets In

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Expand Your Heart

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EXERCISE HEART – MIND COHERENCE

HEART MEDITATION

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References and Readings“Cosmology with a Vatican Scientist:  Exploring the Big Questions”, audio teaching by Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ.,  Now You Know Media.

“Laudato Si” by Pope Francis.

Teilhard pictures are taken from “The Teilhard Project”, and The American Teihard Association websites.

Cosmology images are taken from the website: http://www.new‐universe.org/index.html by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack.