Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: A Critique with James Tunney

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End of Humanity, and AI-Govnerveance: Care and Possession in Dustopia. His most recent book is Trotsky vs Jesus: Battle of the AI-Millennium. His website is https://www.jamestunney.com/ James offers a critical examination of the life and ideas of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, challenging the popular view that he successfully reconciled science and religion. He argues that Teilhard's concepts of convergence, the noosphere, and evolutionary spirituality contributed to modern transhumanist and technocratic worldviews while departing from traditional Catholic theology. Tunney explores the implications of these ideas for artificial intelligence, global governance, human dignity, and the future direction of civilization. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:08:32 Convergence and the Tower of Babel 00:16:17 War, geology and emerging vision 00:24:02 Church reactions and theological controversy 00:32:08 Vatican II and modernism debates 00:40:06 Noosphere and technological networks 00:47:14 Cosmic Christ and consciousness 00:54:22 Transhumanism and global technocracy 01:00:00 Consequences of Teilhard's ideas 01:02:04 Conclusion (Recorded on May 25, 2026) For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin.... Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove. If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected]. To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs.... You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to https://amzn.to/4oOUJLn To order The Mystery of the Trapped Light by James Tunney, click here: https://amzn.to/3cPLRR4. SOME OTHER BOOKS SHOWN IN THIS INTERVIEW: James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution – https://amzn.to/2ugamVh J. Tunney, Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is — https://amzn.to/2UZfExY J. Tunney, Blue Lies September – https://amzn.to/3ak4NFt