The Human Phenomenon Revisited

What do the Secret, the Law of Attraction, prayers, biochemistry, Pierre Teilhard De Chardin and Uri Geller have in common - brainwaves, more specifically our thoughts and the power of consciousness.

The Human Phenomenon was published in 1955 by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, a Jesuit Father and distinguished paleontologist.

In the work of De Chardin, he describes a concept that he terms the Noosphere that, in simple terms, I describe as the collective consciousness of our planet and the universe in which we are enveloped. This is quite relevant to share as we feature a guest on my CNN radio show, Global Evolution™, who is a human phenomenon and also stars in the NBC TV Show, The Phenomenon.

His name is Uri Geller and he is a uniquely gifted person. Mr. Geller is well known for the following abilities:

•    Telepathy (Extrasensory perception - the ability to receive and transmit thought patterns)

•    Dowsing - Finding the location of precious minerals

•    Bending, breaking and softening metal with the power of the mind

•    Fixing broken watches and using collective power, influencing the Big Ben to stop.

•    Moving compasses with the power of thought

•    Erasing computer tapes and disks

What he is perhaps less known for is what I would call his “essence” the purpose of his soul which I see as a passion to help humanity discover the nature of reality, to help us all answer the quintessential questions, and make our world a better place to live by increasing our understanding of consciousness.

To learn more about Mr. Geller’s story and how this relates to the great work of De Chardin, listen to the show (listed under the Abundance category and entitled Uri Geller and Staya Erusa) and visit the website Stayaerusa.org.

In short, Mr. Geller has some amazing abilities and if we are a soul and each soul has a purpose, then clearly Mr. Geller’s experiences and his message is a message humanity should carefully consider. Mr. Geller believes, as do I, that we hold the power within to restore balance and harmony but it requires a great shift and that shift is now taking place. It is also creating great tension, or friction, which is a fundamental law of nature (there is no motion without friction).

In the words of De Chardin, “

Why should there be unification in the world and what purpose does it serve? To see the answer to this ultimate question, we have only to put side by side the two equations which have been gradually formulating themselves from the moment we began trying to situate the phenomenon of man in the world: (1) Evolution=Rise of consciousness, (2) Rise of consciousness=Union effected.”

De Chardin argues, similar to Mr. Geller that we are all a part of a living system, interconnected, overlapping and intertwined throughout all time and space. Since evolution is growth, the unique challenges that the world is now facing is a form of evolution and the solutions to our complex problems require a new form of thinking and a new breed of leadership. De Chardin stated,

“A new domain of physical expansion--that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it… the stuff of the universe, by becoming thinking, has not yet completed its evolutionary cycle, and that we are therefore moving towards some new critical point that lies ahead. In spite of its organic links, whose existence has everywhere become apparent to us, the biosphere has so far been no more than a network of divergent lines, free at their extremities. By effect of reflection and the recoils it involves, the loose ends have been tied up, and the Noosphere tends to constitute a single closed system in which each element sees, feels, desires, and suffers for itself the same things as all the others at the same time.”

It is in my humble opinion, this Noosphere that Mr. Geller and millions of others manipulate with the power of their minds through the form of thoughts and prayers. Although the mechanisms are not fully understood, modern scientific research by scientists in every major field – biochemistry, genetics, physics – and all the great philosophers and theologians have been saying the same thing for all eternity - we live in a frequency based universe that is connected by a mysterious non-physical force. Even the great Albert Einstein said it but few understand it; mass is pure energy, reality is an illusion. Powerful new research on Orbs by Miceal Ledwith or the Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart, and dozens upon dozens of other works are helping us understand the true nature of reality with new technology and wonderful research.

So what is the lesson we need to harness from this research? It is nothing less than we have the collective power to create our reality. We manifest wealth or poverty, sickness or health, war or peace. When we combine our collective thoughts, the multiplying effect is far greater. De Chardin put it this way;

“We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses equivalent to a sort of super-consciousness. The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered by myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection.”

But the problem is that we have become fixated. That fixation is catalyzed in the mind by the need to seek constant gratification and instant stimulation. We feed this addict in the form of money, materialistic objects and technological gadgets.

The three new socially engineered equations that counter De Chardin’s rise of man to greater consciousness are  (1) Money = materialistic objects, (2) Job = Money and (3) Retirement = no job with money, the ideal state of affairs.

Is anyone then surprised when I say that we have become confused in believing that who we are is what we do, our jobs (rule 2), and that life is a destination stop called retirement (rule 3) at station number 401k (rule 1).

The great bipolar divergence of which De Chardin speaks, is represented by the imbalance created between our physical body and spiritual self, by the need to fuel gratification or satisfaction, by the fixation on gadgets and the need for more money so we can retire to buy gadgets and not work. The journey has been forgotten and the spirit is non-physical so it does not come into the picture.

De Chardin wrote this in 1955 but it is perhaps more relevant today than it was then:

“One thing at any rate is sure--from the moment we adopt a thoroughly realistic view of the Noosphere and of the hyper-organic nature of social bonds, the present situation of the world becomes clearer; for we find a very simple meaning for the profound troubles which disturb the layer of mankind at this moment.” 

To me, the Noosphere is pure energy, the Essence of Life. Einstein said the same thing. It is the inherent bond to which we are connected which Mr. Geller controls with his mind and we influence with our collective thoughts. The simple meaning for our profound troubles is what I refer to as the Essence of Change – to achieve a higher state. Too many are resisting, trying to maintain an outdated global and mental paradigm when the world had only a billion people. The reason for the profound troubles is that we are no longer sharing and exchanging “essence” to achieve a higher state of being, rather uselessly expending our “essence” fighting over land in places like Iraq, Palestine, and Kashmir; over inflating commodity and real estate values with hedge funds and sub-prime mortgages; and picking on the Chinese for doing exactly what ever other western nation did and in fact taught them to do (rather ironic isn’t it?).

The greatest irony I see in this east-west conflict is that the Chinese understand human energy and how to use energy to heal. They also understand the Science of Essence and the Essence of Life. In other words, the Chinese have been more aware than the west for 4,000 years and instead of fighting with them over the value of the Yuan, we should be learning from them. Alas, that would require the west to understand non-physical matter and this then brings us back to square one.

In closing, a few more words from De Chardin, excerpted from the Human Phenomenon:

“The two-fold crisis whose onset began in earnest as early as the Neolithic age and which rose to a climax in the modern world, derives in the first place from mass-formation (we might call it a 'planetisation') of mankind. Peoples and civilizations reached such a degree either of frontier contact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they could no longer develop save by interpenetration of one another. But it also arises out of the fact that, under the combined influence of machinery and the super-heating of thought, we are witnessing a formidable upsurge of unused powers. Modern man no longer knows what to do with the time and the potentialities he has unleashed. We groan under the burden of this wealth. We are haunted by the fear of 'unemployment'. Sometimes we are tempted to trample this super-abundance back into the matter from which it sprang without stopping to think how impossible and monstrous such an act against nature would be.”

“When we consider the increasing compression of elements at the heart of a free energy which is also relentlessly increasing, how can we fail to see in this two-fold phenomenon the two perennial symptoms of a leap forward of the 'radial'--that is to say, of a new step in the genesis of mind? In order to avoid disturbing our habits we seek in vain to settle international disputes by adjustments of frontiers--or we treat as 'leisure' (to be whiled away) the activities at the disposal of mankind. As things are now going it will not be long before we run full tilt into one another. Something will explode if we persist in trying to squeeze into our old tumbledown huts the material and spiritual forces that are henceforward on the scale of a world…Peace through conquest, work in joy. These are waiting for us beyond the line where empires are setup against other empires, in an interior tantalization of the world upon itself, in the unanimous construction of a Spirit of the earth.”