List
of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Brian Swimme
Teilhard’s Transforming Thought: Editor-Translator’s Introduction
The
Human Phenomenon
Author’s Note
Prologue: Seeing Part
I Prelife
Chapter I The Stuff of the Universe
1. Elementary Matter
2. Total Matter
3. The Evolution of Matter
Chapter II The Inside of Things
1. Existence
2. The Qualitative Laws of Growth
3. Spiritual Energy
Chapter III The Juvenile Earth
1. The Outside
2. The Inside
Part
II Life
Chapter I The Appearance of Life
1. The Step of Life
A. Microorganisms and Megamolecules
B. A Forgotten Era
C.The Cellular Revolution
2. The Initial Appearances of Life
3. The Season of Life
Chapter II The Expansion of Life
1. The Elementary Movements of Life
Corollary. The Ways of Life
2. The Ramifications of the Living Mass
A. The Aggregations of Growth: The Phylum
B. The Unfolding (or Disjunctions) of Maturity: The Verticil
C. The Effects of Distance: The Suppression of Peduncles
3. The Tree of Life
A. The Main Outlines
B. The Dimensions
C. The Evidence
Chapter III Mother Earth (Demeter)
1. Ariadne’s Thread
2. The Rise of Consciousness
3. The Time Approaches
Part
III Thought
Chapter
I The Birth of Thought
1. The Step of Reflection
A. The Elementary Step: Hominization of the Individual
B. The Phyletic Step: Hominization of the Species
C. The Planetary Terrestrial Step: The Noosphere
2. The Original Forms
Chapter II The Deployment of the Noosphere
1. The Ramified Phase of the Prehominids
2. The Fascicle of the Neanderthaloids
3. The Homo sapiens Complex
4. The Neolithic Metamorphosis
5. The Prolongations of the Neolithic and the Rise of the
West
Chapter III The Modern Earth
1. The Discovery of Evolution
A. The Perception of Space–time
B. The Envelopment in Duration
C. The Illumination
2. The Problem of Action
A. Modern Disquiet
B. The Requirements of the Future
C. The Dilemma and the Choice
Part
IV Superlife
Chapter
I The Collective Way Out
1. The Confluence of Thought
A. Forced Coalescence
B. Megasynthesis
2. The Spirit of the Earth
A. Humanity
B. Science
C. Unanimity
Chapter II Beyond the Collective: The Hyperpersonal
1. The Convergence of the Personal and the Omega Point
A. The Personal Universe
B. The Personalizing Universe
2. Love Energy
3. The Attributes of the Omega Point
Chapter III The Ultimate Earth
1. Predictions to Dismiss
2. The Approaches
A. The Organization of Research
B. The Discovery of the Human as Object
C. The Conjunction of Science and Religion
3. The End
Epilogue:
The Christian Phenomenon
Summary or Postface: The Essence of the Human Phenomenon
Appendix: Some Comments on the Place and Role of Evil in an
Evolving World
Editor-Translator’s Appendix
A. The Sphere
B. The Phylum
Notes
Index
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