The Phenomenon of Man

The phenomenon of man song was inspired by the words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and his thoughts on a certain impulsion of mankind, one that led the bloggist to wonder if we are not actually the UFOs we have been waiting for. The effort here was, a P.T.D.C. put it, "in a few bold strokes, to map out the phases or successive waves of … invasion."

De Chardin furtherwrote:

"Our picture is of mankind labouring under the impulsion of an obscure instinct, so as to break out through its narrow point of emergence and submerge the earth; of thought becoming number so as to conquer all habitable space, taking precedence over all other forms of life; of mind in other words, deploying and convoluting the layers of the noosphere. This effort at multiplication and organic expansion is for him who can see, the summing up and final expression of all human pre-history and history, from the earliest beginnings down to the present day."

--From Chapter Two, The Deployment of the Noosphere, The Phenomenon of Man on Amazon

Last update: 4/12/2003; 11:47:27 AM.