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The Phenomenon of Man (French: Le phénomène humain) is an essay by the French geologist, paleontologist, philosopher, and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in the Château of Sarcenat, Orcines, about 2.5 miles north-west of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, French Third Republic, on 1 May 1881, as the fourth of eleven children of librarian Emmanuel Teilhard de Chardin (1844–1932) and Berthe-Adèle, née de Dompierre d'Hornoys of Picardy.
Xicanistas grapple with our need to thoroughly understand who we are–gifted human beings–and to believe in our talents, our worthiness and beauty, while having to survive within the constructs of a world antithetical to our intuition and knowledge regarding life's meaning.
Otherkin is a subculture of people who identify as partially or entirely nonhuman.Some otherkin believe their identity derives from non-physical spiritual phenomena, such as having a nonhuman soul [1]: 73–76 [better source needed] or reincarnation.
And therefore, we need more humans. Pretty simple.” When Shapiro noted, “That’s an amazingly different goal than what we’ve had in the past,” Musk responded, “Yeah, well, I propose ...
They believed that humans could elevate themselves above their animal instincts, attain a higher consciousness, and partake in this spiritual world. [15] Higher self is a term associated with multiple belief systems, but its basic premise describes an eternal, omniscient, conscious, and intelligent being, who is one's real self.
Spiritualism is a metaphysical belief that the world is made up of at least two fundamental substances, matter and spirit.This very broad metaphysical distinction is further developed into many and various forms by the inclusion of details about what spiritual entities exist such as a soul, the afterlife, spirits of the dead, deities and mediums; as well as details about the nature of the ...
It seems reasonable to suppose that he saw this unity in the concept of spirit or a spiritual being, [46] and where on his view, as on traditional religious views, as well as New Age views, not all spiritual beings are human beings, though (a further difficulty) not all spiritual beings are free.