Activation of Energy

Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 1972
• ISBN:
  9780547536804
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

The renowned Jesuit thinker explores science, theology, and the course of human evolution. Following in the footsteps of his earlier works, this collection of essays from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brings greater clarity to the stunning potential of human energy if it is properly channeled, as he describes, "upward and outward." While energy wrongly directed appears as depression, drug addiction, and violence, this legendary scholar—a priest who earned a doctorate in geology and studied the sciences extensively—promises that spiritual energy channeled correctly will become a true force in the universe, far outdistancing the potential of technological advance. "Like other great visionary poets—Blake, Hopkins, Yeats—Teilhard engages the reader both intellectually and sensually." — The Washington Post Book World

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

‘above’, 266, 278, 357, 381; faith in, 240; synthesis with ‘ahead’, 279

absolute, man’s need for, 43

abyss; of agglomeration, 28; of complexity, 38; of fragmentation, 28; Pascal’s two, 24–5, 185; of number, 185, 192; of synthesis, 28; of time, 185, 192

action, transcendent form, 35–6

activation; by Christic energy, 364; of energy, 365, 390; and evolution, 369; of human energy, 366–8; of universe, 266

Africa, 63

‘ahead’, 337, 381; escape through, 278; of evolution, 266; faith in, 340; synthesis with ‘above’, 379

aircraft, in war, 84–5

albumens, 32

All, the, 222 n

alpha particles, 349

altruism, 209

America, 63

amorization; spirit of, 318; of stuff of things, 383; of universe, 366

analysis, 131, 133

animals, 33; calculation of energy in, 365, 390; and reflection, 286 n, 397

anthropocentrism, 363

anthropogenesis, 168, 310, 364; and biogenesis, 273, 377, 363; convergence in, 328; perception of, 271, 278; and zest for life, 236, 239

anthropology; and biological value in human progress, 299; of movement, 391; new foundation, 283; and the ultra-human, 313, 314

ants, 66, 199

Aristotle, 100, 213, 261; ‘prime matter’, 330

Aristotelianism, and concept of universe, 225–6

arrangement, 265, 287–8, 301, 331

‘artificial’ and ‘natural’, 139, 304, 380

association, 69, 70, 74, 88, 93; syn-psychic, 137

astronomy, 187, 354, 333

astrophysics, 28

atheism, 239

atom, 24, 32, 33, 38, 67, 87, 105, 255, 287, 326, 330, 331 n; choice-energy in, 135; concept of, 159

atomic complexity, 102, 102 n

atomic-consciousness, 48, 49, 33, 33, 34, 36

attraction, 39, 397

auto-arrangement, 333

auto-criticism, 336

auto-evolution, 203 n, 265, 276, 309; attainment of ultra-human by, 292; zest for, 295. See self-evolution

axial energy, 393

Axis; ideology, 93, 94; powers, 81

B

bacteria, 28, 321; infra-, 87

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Note
• Epigraph
• The Moment of Choice
• The Atomism of Spirit
• The Rise of the Other
• Universalization and Union
• Centrology
• The Analysis of Life
• Outline of a Dialectic of Spirit
• The Place of Technology in a General Biology of Mankind
• On the Nature of the Phenomenon of Human Society, and its Hidden Relationship with Gravity
• The Psychological Conditions of the Unification of Man
• A Phenomenon of Counter-Evolution in Human Biology
• The Sense of the Species in Man
• The Evolution of Responsibility in the World
• A Clarification: Reflections on Two Converse Forms of Spirit
• The Zest for Living
• The Spiritual Energy of Suffering
• A Mental Threshold Across Our Path: From Cosmos to Cosmogenesis
• Reflections on the Scientific Probability and the Religious Consequences of an Ultra-Human
• The Convergence of the Universe
• The Transformation and Continuation in Man of the Mechanism of Evolution
• A Major Problem for Anthropology
• The Reflection of Energy
• Reflections on the Compression of Mankind
• On Looking at a Cyclotron
• The Energy of Evolution
• The Stuff of the Universe
• The Activation of Human Energy
• The Death-Barrier and Co-Reflection
• Index
• About the Author
• Footnotes