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?
Friday, March 30, 2007
Ecstacy By Prescription!
The unapologetic hippies at 10 Zen Monkeys talk to a guy from MAPS about legal psychedelic research, and how MDMA has a good chance of becoming a mainstream pharmaceutical. Except that there's really no market for it (not taken in daily doses). Lots of other drugs are covered too, including pot, shrooms, LSD and ibogaine.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AutoPoietics on the 'Net psybernetics autopoiesis
http://beat.doebe.li/bibliothek/p00001.html
http://autopoietic.net/
Journal of Autopoietic Theory
Associated with the Autopoiesis Email list at autopoiesis-dialognet@yahoogroups.com
Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.
Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.
See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997
See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975
See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England
AutoPoietics on the 'Net psybernetics autopoiesis
http://beat.doebe.li/bibliothek/p00001.html
http://autopoietic.net/
Journal of Autopoietic Theory
Associated with the Autopoiesis Email list at autopoiesis-dialognet@yahoogroups.com
Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.
Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.
See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997
See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975
See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
2+2=4 NYtimes gets a clue on Bush Admin Central Lie
NYTimes ED
Editorial
central double-bind of this Admin.
He was charged with those crimes, defended by the best lawyers he could get, tried in an open courtroom and convicted of serious felonies. Mr. Libby walked freely out of the court, had his say in public and will be allowed to appeal.
A Libby Verdict
central double-bind of this Admin.
He was charged with those crimes, defended by the best lawyers he could get, tried in an open courtroom and convicted of serious felonies. Mr. Libby walked freely out of the court, had his say in public and will be allowed to appeal.
It was another reminder of how precious the American judicial system is, at a time when it is under serious attack from the same administration Mr. Libby served. That administration is systematically denying the right of counsel, the right to evidence and even the right to be tried to scores of prisoners who may have committed no crimes at all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/opinion/07weds1.html
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
RU Sirius' Leary Project course online started...
8 week course
February 26 - April 27
Course texts:
True Mutations by RU Sirius
The Intelligence Agents by Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
Personas, Medias & Messages
Personas, Medias & Messages
Take the Timothy Leary trip with R.U. Sirius. This course will have two components. One aspect of the course will deal with Timothy Leary’s personal and intellectual history. We will look at how he changed culture. We will look at the controversies around his life and person. And we will understand transhumanism and Leary’s role as one of the first transhumanists .
The other aspect of the course will incorporate exercises suggested by Leary himself in exploring his evolutionary circuits in his book, The Game Of Life.
Most of the course readings will be provided online, but serious students are encouraged to obtain and read the course texts and recommended books (if you can find them!).
Recommended Books:
The Game of Life: Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary: A Biography by Robert Greenfield
What Does Woman Want: Timothy Leary
I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary by John Higg
what?
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Intelligent Universe by James Gardner on ArtBell global radio tonight
what?
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/652.html
http://www.intelligentuniverse.org/
Bio
James Gardner is a complexity theorist, a science essayist and an attorney. He is the author of the new bookhttp://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/652.html
http://www.intelligentuniverse.org/
Friday, February 16, 2007
Wake for Bob Wilson RAW robert anton wilson at Santa Cruz this weekend
Bob has de-animated to very low resolution atoms? Cremated? Celebrate his incredible life at Santa Cruz Wake.ok
Join us at The Cocoanut Grove, one of Santa Cruz' premier seaside venues and enjoy mind-expanding RAW media presentations, a raucous processionary send-off, top-notch hors d'oeuvres, a variety of soft beverages, cash bar, old friends and new, comedy, levity and hilaritas!
$23 Tickets here
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Ram Dass Richard Alpert and Tim Leary preface to Alan Watts' Joyous Cosmology notes on the Ecstatic Voyage
what?
buy this book here
Joyous cosmology
let's see, so it would have been better for Cognitive Liberty if Ram Dass Richard Alpert and
Tim Leary and Alan Watt's had Not done this?
Please edit accordingly , D. Pinchbeck and Myron Storoloff, et. al. , ....
Ram Dass Richard Alpert & Tim Leary on Alan Watts
Alan Watts spells out in eloquent detail his drug-induced visionary moments. He is, of course, attempting the impossible—to describe in words (which always lie) that which is beyond words. But how well he can do it!
Alan Watts is one of the great reporters of our times. He has an intuitive sensitivity for news, for the crucial issues and events of the century. And he has along with this the verbal equipment of a poetic philosopher to teach and inform. Here he has given us perhaps the best statement on the subject of space-age mysticism, more daring than the two classic works of Aldous Huxley because Watts follows Mr. Huxley's lead and pushes beyond. The recognition of the love aspects of the mystical experience and the implications for new forms of social communication are especially important.
You are holding in your hand a great human document. But unless you are one of the few Westerners who have (accidentally or through chemical good fortune) experienced a mystical minute of expanded awareness, you will probably not understand what the author is saying. Too bad, but still not a cause for surprise. The history of ideas reminds us that new concepts and new visions have always been non-understood. We cannot understand that for which we have no words. But Alan Watts is playing the book game, the word game, and the reader is his contracted partner.
But listen. Be prepared. There are scores of great lines in this book. Dozens of great ideas. Too many. Too compressed. They glide by too quickly. Watch for them.
If you catch even n few of these ideas, you will find yourself asking the questions which we ask ourselves as we look over our research data: Where do we go from here? What is the application of these new wonder medicines? Can they do more than provide memorable moments and memorable books?
The answer will come from two directions. We must provide more and more people with these experiences and have them tell us, as Alan Watts does here, what they experienced. (There will hardly be a lack of volunteers for this ecstatic voyage.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/jcforewd.htm
buy this book here
Joyous cosmology
let's see, so it would have been better for Cognitive Liberty if Ram Dass Richard Alpert and
Tim Leary and Alan Watt's had Not done this?
Please edit accordingly , D. Pinchbeck and Myron Storoloff, et. al. , ....
Ram Dass Richard Alpert & Tim Leary on Alan Watts
Alan Watts spells out in eloquent detail his drug-induced visionary moments. He is, of course, attempting the impossible—to describe in words (which always lie) that which is beyond words. But how well he can do it!
Alan Watts is one of the great reporters of our times. He has an intuitive sensitivity for news, for the crucial issues and events of the century. And he has along with this the verbal equipment of a poetic philosopher to teach and inform. Here he has given us perhaps the best statement on the subject of space-age mysticism, more daring than the two classic works of Aldous Huxley because Watts follows Mr. Huxley's lead and pushes beyond. The recognition of the love aspects of the mystical experience and the implications for new forms of social communication are especially important.
You are holding in your hand a great human document. But unless you are one of the few Westerners who have (accidentally or through chemical good fortune) experienced a mystical minute of expanded awareness, you will probably not understand what the author is saying. Too bad, but still not a cause for surprise. The history of ideas reminds us that new concepts and new visions have always been non-understood. We cannot understand that for which we have no words. But Alan Watts is playing the book game, the word game, and the reader is his contracted partner.
But listen. Be prepared. There are scores of great lines in this book. Dozens of great ideas. Too many. Too compressed. They glide by too quickly. Watch for them.
If you catch even n few of these ideas, you will find yourself asking the questions which we ask ourselves as we look over our research data: Where do we go from here? What is the application of these new wonder medicines? Can they do more than provide memorable moments and memorable books?
The answer will come from two directions. We must provide more and more people with these experiences and have them tell us, as Alan Watts does here, what they experienced. (There will hardly be a lack of volunteers for this ecstatic voyage.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/jcforewd.htm
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Closing the 'Collapse Gap': USSR was better prepared for collapse than US
How would the USA do if the economy collapsed? Dmitry Orlov witnessed the collapse of the USSR first hand. He compares the similarities, relative advantages and disadvantages of the USSR then, to the US now.
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USSR was thought by X to have Peak Oiled in '85. USSR collapsed in 1990?
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USSR was thought by X to have Peak Oiled in '85. USSR collapsed in 1990?
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
new update to our Intelligent Universe!
follow UP to speculations from Leary's neurologic, Terra II, and Exo/Info-PsYchology from Way Back in the 70's. Leary. That old
Acid Crank. See more about LSD Cranks in Robert Stone's new non-fiction
ruminations about the Grand Old 60's in Prime Green: Rembering the Sixties
earlier version of new book called Biocosm. check out site
buy new book on amazon from this site
Intelligent Universe
Acid Crank. See more about LSD Cranks in Robert Stone's new non-fiction
ruminations about the Grand Old 60's in Prime Green: Rembering the Sixties
earlier version of new book called Biocosm. check out site
buy new book on amazon from this site
Intelligent Universe
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