The Omega Point

The Omega Point
One person who believed our destiny was indeed a collective spiritual awakening, was the French priest and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Exploring the evolutionary trends towards greater complexity, connectivity, and consciousness, he argued that humanity was moving towards an Omega Point—the final end and goal of evolution.

He believed that the universe had been through several major stages of evolution, starting with what he called "cosmogenesis,” the birth of the "cosmosphere"; the Universe. Next was geogenesis, the birth of the Earth (the geosphere). Following that, "biogenesis", the birth of life (the biosphere). With human beings, there came "noogenesis" and the "noosphere", the sphere of thought. He predicted that the final stage, the one that led to the Omega Point, would be "Christogenesis". This would be the birth of Christ consciousness, not in an individual, but in the collective—the spiritual birth of humanity as a whole.

Teilhard de Chardin believed this Omega Point would happen thousands of years in the future. Like many others, he did not take into account the implications of ever-accelerating change. In his later years, he commented on the impact of radio and television in bringing humanity together. Technologies like these, he said, were bringing the Omega Point much closer. Just before he died, the first computers were being developed. Perceiving the potential of this new technology, he predicted that they too would bring the Omega Point even closer. If he had lived to see the emergence of the Internet, he would probably have realized that the Omega Point could come very soon indeed.

Breakdown or Breakthrough?
When we look at what is happening in the world today, it is understandable that we might scoff at the idea of a collective spiritual breakthrough. The daily news is full of evidence that we are heading ever more rapidly towards breakdown rather than breakthrough.

That is indeed one likely possibility. I do not want to play down the dire urgency of the world situation. If we don't make some radical changes, we are surely headed for disaster of one kind or another.

I also believe that change is possible. If we can develop the wisdom needed to navigate our way though these turbulent times safely, the potentials are staggering and unimaginable in scope. Let's put our hearts and minds to proving that we can pass Buckminster Fuller's final evolutionary exam, and become a truly magnificent species. We are, after all, our only hope.

http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/SoundsTrue2012.php From "A Singularity in Time" by Peter Russell



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difficult to think that evolution - means all evolution.

Final end and goal?

Maybe earth evolution.
Maybe body-life evolution.
Not soul evolution.

Does this work get into this?

capacity to express Universal Consciousness.

evolution keeps going, but he talks of taking a Quantum leap in consciousness as our next evolutionary jump,which will literally create a new reality which we can barely fathom. I would recommend his book "Waking up in Time"......most excellent description of the coming Quantum jump.

I will have to put this book on my list and see if or how it compares to this movie.

to be opportunities to learn and grow toward a more connected/collective consciousness that were thrust one after the other into the media spotlight...... a spotlight that is ignoring the immediacy of the horrors in Iraq, Darfur............


It may be worth mentioning that AFAIK the term "Christ Consciousness" is not limited to the bibilical Jesus Christ and is expressed via the teachers/avatars of various religions.

And then I was told about him by someone on 'the wisdom project'.

I have to go, but this is pertinent, I believe;

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Dr_eldritch/6

thanks for sharing............

Actually, I can't find the one I wanted. It's a composite of that one, and the one where I describe 'The Human Omega' theory.

I wrote this before someone told me about de Chardin;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1249837

-So now it seems a little naive and unsophisticated. But it's something that I believe is inexorable.

if it is even a possibility. The first condition that we would have to meet is living in a closed universe. The second is that we stick around till just about the end of the universe.

Only during the final phases of the big crunch will there be enough energy close enough for a universal intelligence to emerge.

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/tiplerian.html

a bit more complicated....................Lol

I'm hoping for the Quantum leap!

then there is a portion of the theory that requires universal resurrection. Some type of prisoner theory meets the power of universal computation.

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making too many assumptions, not that thats a bad thing.
and I don't have a clue what you mean by universal resurrection or computation.

finite consciousness and the Physical world, the Universe no longer appears bound by space and time.

Time is not longer a consideration.

It's a manmade construct applicable only to life focused solely on the Physical level.

We already are the universal intelligence, just not yet.

See?

if my memory serves.

A bit to ego driven.