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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and James Lovelock

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and James Lovelock pionneered the vision of an integrated world where the planet Earth and the human specie form a unified organism (see Gaia Hypothesis) and from which emerges a new sphere of global consciousness (see Noosphere).

These enlightened men are more than scientists of their time. Because of their profound spirituality, they are able to understand, to foresee the /futurs.

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« We feel that we belong here as if this planet were indeed our home. Long ago the Greeks, thinking this way, gave to the Earth the name Gaia or, for short, Ge. In those days, science and theology were one and science, although less precise, had soul. As time passed this warm relationship faded and was replaced by the frigidity of the schoolmen. The life sciences, no longer concerned with life, fell to classifying dead things and even to vivisection. Ge was stolen from theology to become no more the root from which the disciplines of geography and geology were named. Now at last there are signs of a change. Science becomes holistic again and rediscovers soul, and theology, moved by ecumenical forces, begins to realise that Gaia is not to be subdivided for academic convenience and that Ge is much more than just a prefix. »
James Lovelock

« We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion… To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits. »
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Today that we are trying so willingly to see through the future, we should think about that strong relation between spirituality and a clear-thinking state of mind.

Despite our cognitive sciences and intelligence technologies, we seem to have made no big progresses in the field of prophecies since the Ancients, from Native Americans to Australian Aboriginals.