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Case
2
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Human Energy
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.,
1969), pp. 116-119.
In Human Energy, Teilhard de Chardin
applies Vernadsky's concepts of the biosphere
and "living matter' to human consciousness.
It may be possible to quantify "total human
energy", which "is created at every
moment by the sum of all energies accumulated
on the earth's surface." It is much more
difficult, however, to measure "spiritual
energy." He mused that even if science
could measure the "power released during
psychic events, it would not encompass "the
breadth and riches of the world of ideas."
The noosphere is "the mass of consciousness
that exists in fundamental connection in the
living world." A few observers who posses
the "special quality and training"
may perceive the natural psychic unity higher
than our souls. This can lead to "the discovery
of a deep cosmic sense in connections. Thus,
"the noosphere, the world of thought, floats
above the biosphere, whose layers gradually
merge into it, and begins to let its crown shine."
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Case
1 |
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William
Paley, Natural Theology, 1794 |
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Carl
Linnaeus, Nemesis Divina, 1758 |
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George
Gregory, The Economy of Nature, 1804 |
Case
2 |
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Vladimir
Vernadsky, Biosphere and Noosphere, 1939 |
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Pierre
Teilard de Chardin, Human Energy, 1969 |
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Pierre
Teilard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter,
1978 |
Case
3 |
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John
Neale Dalton, The Book of Common Prayer, 1920 |
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Joan
Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness, 1993 |
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Hans
Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy, 2001 |
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Lynn
Margulis and Dorian Sagan, The Garden of
Microbial Delights, 1993 |
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Nina
Witoszek and Andrew Brennan, eds., Philosophical
Dialogues, 1999 |
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Roger
S. Gottlieb, ed., This
Sacred Earth, 2004 |
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