THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF HUMANITY Despite Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s duties as a stretcher-bearer in WWI, or perhaps because of them, he began to think even more about his philosophy of the Cosmos. The din and fog of the war made him even more convinced that all is one: the cosmos and all in it are bound up together; materially, organically and spiritually. It was an intoxicating idea; that no matter what activity human beings are engaged in, even a ghastly war, they are forming a new unity, which has a higher – more evolved - purpose than a mere collection of beings. He wrote, “We now understand that when Christ descends sacramentallly into each one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with Him; it is in order to join Him physically, a little more closely to Himself and to all the rest of the faithful in the growing unity of the world.” His ideas evolved to imagine a sphere of human thought encompassing the earth; he named it the Noosphere, and it continued to haunt him. He wrote, “All humanity is not only made of the same stardust and connected by the laws of biology and physics; our consciousness is also a part of a greater collective whole – and is ever evolving. It has been convincingly argued that his ideas of the Noosphere gave rise to the concept of the World Wide Web. amazon/Teilhard-Chardin-Handful-Catholics-ebook/dp/B00B7A1FYM/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374080542&sr=1-6
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