Thoughts on Chardin's Presumed Evolution of Human Consciousness: Part 1
In response to Teilhard de Chardin's essay "Does Mankind Move Biologically Upon Itself?" in Revue Des Questions Scientifiques , October 20, 1949 In the final paragraph of his essay Does Mankind Move Biologically Upon Itself , Teilhard de Chardin says, "...it requires no great gift of prophecy to affirm that, within two or three generations, the notion of the psychic infolding of the earth upon itself...will be as generally accepted and utilized by our successors as the idea of the earth's mechanical movement round the sun...is accepted by ourselves." It is clear such a generation has either not yet matured or not yet come to be. So the question remains, is Chardin wrong to assume that we will soon be on the cusp of accepting as truth that some psychic infolding of the earth upon itself is occurring? In this series of posts, which I have entitled Thoughts on Chardin's Presumed Evolution of Human Consciousness, I aim to explore this question an...