“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

“The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.”

French philosopher, Jesuit Priest, paleontologist, geologist, biologist - Teilhard de Chardin helped to discover Peking Man. His book, The Phenomenon of Man, explores the evolution of the cosmos and hypothysizes our next evolutionary step. Not surprisingly , these teachings were banned by the Catholic Church.

Anodea Judith says, “Teilhard de Chardin passed away a full ten years before James Lovelock ever proposed the “Gaia Hypothesis” which suggests that the Earth is actually a living being, a collosal biological super-system. Yet Chardin’s writings clearly reflect the sense of the Earth as having its own autonomous personality, and being the prime center and director of our future — To this end, he suggested that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, was growing a new organ of consciousness, called the noosphere. The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a “planetary thinking network” — an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication.”