Dear Alec, Your reply seems to bring us all the way back to square one. You insist that I prove to you that there is genuine mysticism, and I say I cannot...
Dear Richard et al, I am sorry that my statement upset you so much. Of course all the things that you list are appalling and I am as desperately sorry as you...
One of the puzzles from the Human genome project is how the human brain, the most complex single structure known in the universe, the seat of the human mind...
Dear Alec, I would like to comment on what you say here: "However traditional religion is not integrative in this sense because religion holds to dogmatic...
Dear Alec, This is most interesting and surely a very good example of the principle of Teilhard that "unity differentiates". The same might be said of a...
Dear Alec and Peter, I have been following your dialogue on mysticism with real interest. What is interesting to me particularly is how it is trying to be...
Dear Alec and all, ... The science in me, which I love, compels me to present the following problem: Given the religious statement of truth: Love your neighbor...
Hello Maxine and Neighbors ~ My computer is having some problems at this time. Apparently, a "hacker/spammer" has gotten hold of my private email address and...
Dear Maxine, The distinction your draw in Teilhard between understanding the without and the within is very important, and what you say of the presence of a...
Sorry to be so late in discussing more on this topic. Missing it completely, I was glad that Brian picked-up on the issue of "salvation" in relation to...
... This idea of "Freedom to be co-creators" or perhaps more traditionally expressed as -God entering into the affairs of man through the Holy Spirit has...
Richard, rdsaam@... writes: << are we at the point were we can be trusted with co-creation? >> Whether we can be trusted or not, it would seem as we...
Richard, and everyone, Yesterday I was re-reading the excerpt from Jean Houston's book that Beatrix and Janice posted in our group files and that was sent to...
Dear noospherian, Dear Alec, in your post dated: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 Subject: Re: Mysticism and Science - separate magisteria? you wrote: 'If mysticism is to have...
Dear Peter Thank you for responding. You say "The distinction your draw in Teilhard between understanding the without and the within is very important, and...
Yahoo, Neighbors! It's the 4th of July and thank God for small miracles! I'm up and running all because of a true friend who showed up in my time of need ~...
MaryMarguerite, thank you for another description of Teilhard's way of impressing others, eerily similar to Jean Houston's telling. And here we are, 60 years...
Well, here we female voices are once again with our heightened intuitive senses trying to bring Teilhard's evident psychic energy into play in this forum. ...
Dear Peter et al, I have been away for a while, so excuse the delay in replying. I think there is a good deal of us talking past one another, focusing on the...
Yes indeed. There is much complexity in nature that arises from simple rules. The utter simplicity of the inverse square law of gravity leads to the structure...
Ernst Mayr is 100 years old - the great evolutionist who has led the development of evolutionary theory and the Modern Synthesis. Born in 1904, Mayr has...
OPALINEDBLUE and everyone the following is very well expressed by Teilhard and it drives many of us in the hopeful vision of the future. ... But it does have a...
Hello Richard, you say: << Humans have not developed the language of leaving this world, yet participating in the ultimate truth. In Catholic belief, there is...
Dear Alec, Richard et al, Again, another coincidence! Yesterday evening, Alec sent us an important post (quoted below) with the subject: "Mayr 100" containing...
Dear Peter and all, I'm beginning to think there must be something wrong with the way I write, as I so often feel misinterpreted. I do try to make myself ...
Dear Maxine et al, Do you think that some day in the near or not-so-near future, we will look back in a somewhat bemused manner at the disagreements that exist...
... In this discussion of divisiveness related to science and religion, we must in the case of science distinguish between pure science and applied science. ...
Morning Neighbors ~ Richard, your message 7003 brings to the mind of this poet, the polarity of a material imagination (applied science) and reason ethics). To...
Welcome Filip! We're glad you found our group and are looking forward to hearing about you and how you came across Teilhard at the University of Northern Iowa....
Quoting Teilhard [from the Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition Booklet, p. 71.] : "The tired--the hedonists--the enthusiasts. "Three types of men: and,...
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