Why Consciousness Is Accelerating | Teilhard de Chardin, Creative Evolution, and The Noosphere

An exploration into the life and ideas of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. At once a paleontologist, geologist, philosopher, and catholic priest, Chardin was an immensely ambitious thinker who sought to bridge the divide between science and spirituality. At an early age he became possessed with a fiery passion to answer the most fundamental questions in life. The culmination of his life's work is found in his posthumously published magnum opus: "The Phenomenon of Man", the text which will serve as the guiding light for this video. This video explores cosmic evolution, consciousness expansion, complexity theory, and the noosphere. Expect an updated treatment of Chardin's work, with a few tangents for shedding light on more modern research and developments (like the INTERNET, something that Teilhard effectively predicted decades prior), and much, much more. From the formation of the early universe, to the explosion of biological diversity, to the earliest flickers of consciousness in humankind, and even the deepest future of the cosmos ... this video casts a very wide net. I literally spent the past 3 months since finishing the previous video on this one and it has completely consumed me lol. Please like and share and do whatever to help this video grow the channel more :) See you guys in the next one. Alt Titles: "Cosmic Mind, Creative Evolution, and the End of History | Teilhard de Chardin" "Complexity, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness" "The Universe Seeks Itself Through Biological Forms" #cosmology #evolution #spirituality #consciousness #future #collective #integral #cosmiccreativity 📖Chapters: 00:00 - The Deep Mystery of Life (Intro) 02:23 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin & The Phenomenon of Man 05:09 - Creative Evolution 06:16 - Burning Questions; The Schism of Science and Religion 07:42 - Meeting with the Absolute 08:39 - Love as a Cosmic Force 09:27 - Cosmogenesis; From Geogenesis to Biogenesis 11:35 - The 'Stuff of the Universe' 12:56 - Bohm's Implicate & Explicate Orders 14:07 - The Early Earth 16:49 - Psychogenesis & Instinctual Thought 17:49 - The Great Branching 19:36 - Convergence & Neoteny 21:20 - Spiritualizing Animalistic Forces (Hominization) 22:38 - The Birth of Reflective Thought 24:48 - The Noosphere; Emerging Planetary Consciousness 27:28 - The Formation of the Noosphere 28:45 - Morality of Growth 29:54 - Modern Internet & Information Technology 31:24 - The Present Day / Noetic Scaffolding 33:00 - Technological Darkness 34:36 - The Omega Point and the Transcendental Object at the End of History 37:29 - The Spiral of Complexity & Beauty 40:10 - Closing Thoughts ☕If you got some value from this, consider buying me a coffee! Might help make the next video come out sooner :) https://ko-fi.com/themysticalpolymath NEW - Join my Substack to get early access to my scripts (with sources). (The script for this video was posted there a month before this was uploaded!) https://substack.com/@mysticalpolymath Further Reading, Sources & Image/Video Clip Attributions: https://gist.github.com/mysticalpolym... Research and script written by me Dialogue edit and audio composition by Jackson Roulston Music licensed from Epidemic Sound Footage licensed from Artlist