By Jennifer Cobb Kresiberg — 1995
An obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness 50 years ago.
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CLEAR ALL
This is in fact the foundational assumption behind our notion of universal human rights: we are all conscious, and thus we all have needs and we all suffer.
Modern science has led the world to shift from spiritual aspirations to a war for material accumulation.
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Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Daniel Goleman reports on the Dalai Lama and the dialog between science and Buddhism, especially on how neuroscientists are measuring the effects of meditation.
An erosion of hope is underway, and this more than anything must be reversed.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.