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Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Phenomenon of Man - Aggregation and function
Identifier
000169
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Pere Teilhard de Chardin – Phenomenon of Man
At an early stage of their discoveries, biologists were surprised and fascinated by the fact that living beings, however perfect their spontaneity, were always decomposable into an endless chain of closed mechanisms. From this they thought they could deduce universal materialism. But they overlooked the essential difference between a natural whole and the elements into which it is analysed.
By its very construction, it is true, every organism is always and inevitably reducible into its component parts. But it by no means follows that the sum of the parts is the same as the whole, or that, in the whole, some specifically new value may not emerge.
The source of the experience
Teilhard de Chardin, PierreConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Being constantly criticisedPsychological trauma
War.
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicBelieving in the spiritual world
Inherited genes
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am