From Noosphere to Theosphere: Cyclotrons, Cyberspace, and Teilhard’s Vision of Cosmic Love.
Two theme–setting quotations introduce this essay—that of Yeats’s falcon, deaf to the falconer’s call, adrift in space above the blood–dimmed tide, counterpoised to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s call to abandon old nationalistic prejudices and build the earth. With primary references to the thought o...
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