PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Toward a Science Charged with Faith
Chapter 5 of God and Science
by Charles P. Henderson
It was at the height of his career in paleontology while he was studying bones and fossils in northern China (in 1927) that Teilhard wrote what he called "a little book on piety" designed to convey both the sincerity and the orthodoxy of his faith to his superiors in Rome. In this book Teilhard speaks of The Divine Milieu and by its very title suggests his theme: the whole material world as the setting for a profound, mystical vision of God. It is in the world itself, as it is seen through the eyes of science, that the workings of God are most apparent. Teilhard's writing is graphic and unrestrained:
All around us, to right and left, in front and behind, above and below, we have only to go a little beyond the frontier of sensible appearances in order to see the divine welling up and showing through. But it is not only close to us, in front of us, that the divine presence has revealed itself. It has sprung up universally, and we find ourselves so surrounded and transfixed by it, that there is no room left to fall down and adore it, even within ourselves.
By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and moulds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers. In eo vivimus. As Jacob said, awakening from his dream, the world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.(1)
Needless to say writing like this did not reassure the religious authorities in Rome, for Teilhard affirmed the material world as a source of mystical illumination. Though Teilhard did not directly criticize any specific doctrines of the church in his little book of piety, this work constitutes an assault upon the skeletal supports of traditional theology. Teilhard was just as provocative when he was trying to reassure as when he was trying to stir up debate. Early on, he describes his book in two sentences which were intended to convey the modesty of his position but in reality contained a theological time bomb:
http://www.godweb.org/chardin.htm
Thursday, April 26, 2007
U.S. Border Patrol Bars Canadian Psychotherapist with Drug Research Far in
anti cognitive liberty perps use 'Net search to filter out who is defending somatic processing experiments
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Monday, April 23, 2007
The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have
The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have
By Daniel A. Farber, Basic Books
Posted on April 23, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/50404/
The following is an excerpt from Daniel A. Farber's forthcoming "Retained by the People: The 'Silent' Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have" (Perseus Books, 2007), available April 30.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. --The Ninth Amendmenthttp://www.alternet.org/rights/50404/
The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have
The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have
By Daniel A. Farber, Basic Books
Posted on April 23, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/50404/
The following is an excerpt from Daniel A. Farber's forthcoming "Retained by the People: The 'Silent' Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have" (Perseus Books, 2007), available April 30.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. --The Ninth Amendmenthttp://www.alternet.org/rights/50404/
Monday, April 16, 2007
The Surprising Antiwar Message of 24
james fallows finally sees first season...trying to stop a war based on lies! too much.
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Friday, April 06, 2007
DoseNation on top of Shroom book by Andy Letcher
from DoseNation
The Washington Times Review of 'Shroom'
...Times chimes in with a favorable review of 'SHROOM', a text we've covered in some detail on this site. Another interesting bit of wisdom from the review: Some of the facts Mr. Letcher confirms are at least as strange as the legends he debunk... 2007-04-04 15:17:34 jamesk
Interview with Andy Letcher, author of 'Shroom'
...aspects of alternative culture. His first book, SHROOM: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was reviewed by DoseNation earlier this week. Andy was nice enough to take the time to answer our burning questions about the text via e-mail. Please e... by James Kent 2007-03-23 12:15:50 jamesk
Book review: Shroom - Andy Letcher
SHROOM, by Andy Letcher, is that most wondrous of finds; a magic mushroom book that dares to confront modern orthodoxy, and does so in a way that actually advances our knowledge in the field. Billing his text as "A Cultural History of the Magic Mush... by James Kent 2007-03-19 11:35:44 jamesk
Researchers tested pot, LSD on Army volunteer; new book by James S. Ketchum, MD, Author
Researchers tested pot, LSD on Army volunteers
http://www.forgottensecrets.net/
Chemical warfare watchers, from scientists to policy advocates, often wonder what went on at the Army Chemical Center during the 1960s.
It was a decade in which thousands of Army enlisted men served as volunteers for the secret testing of chemical agents. The actual historical record, however, has until now remained disturbingly incomplete.
The author spent most of a decade testing over a dozen potential incapacitating agents including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives. His 380-page narrative, loaded with both old and recent photographs, derives from technical reports, memoranda, films, notes and memories.
what?
Army doctors gave soldier volunteers synthetic marijuana, LSD and two dozen other psychoactive drugs during experiments aimed at developing chemical weapons that could incapacitate enemy soldiers, a psychiatrist who performed the research says in a new memoir.
The program, which ran at the Army's Edgewood, Md., arsenal from 1955 until about 1972, concluded that counterculture staples such as acid and pot were either too unpredictable or too mellow to be useful as weapons, psychiatrist James Ketchum said in an interview.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-05-army-experiments_N.htm
http://www.forgottensecrets.net/
Chemical warfare watchers, from scientists to policy advocates, often wonder what went on at the Army Chemical Center during the 1960s.
It was a decade in which thousands of Army enlisted men served as volunteers for the secret testing of chemical agents. The actual historical record, however, has until now remained disturbingly incomplete.
The author spent most of a decade testing over a dozen potential incapacitating agents including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives. His 380-page narrative, loaded with both old and recent photographs, derives from technical reports, memoranda, films, notes and memories.
what?
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