Heart of Matter: “The Notion of Mind”
“The notion of mind, on the human level, includes the brain as well as the body, the senses and emotions, as well as the environment of interaction.” Ilia Delio, Making…
Heart of Matter: The Human Arrow
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 “Teilhard de Chardin did not see the human person lost or insignificant in light of evolution; rather, he saw the human person as the arrow of…
Heart of Matter: Science and the Arts
Tuesday May 23, 2023 “From the sixth to the fourth centuries BC, there was an almost unparalleled flowering of science and the arts based on the best of what both…
Heart of Matter: We Belong to the Whole
“We emerge from the whole; we belong to the whole; and we are endowed with the capacity to evolve to higher levels of complexity and consciousness.” Ilia Delio, Making All…
Heart of Matter: Nature Reveals Wholeness
“Nature reveals intrinsic wholeness, but the whole is not constrained by biological life; rather on the level of the human person the whole is open to becoming more whole, orientated to…
Heart of Matter: Cosmic and Biological Life
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 “Looking at evolution through the lens of emergence helps us to realize that cosmic and biological life are marked by the development of increasing wholeness in…
Heart of Matter: What is Emergence?
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 “Emergence is a combination of holism with novelty in a way that contrasts with both physical reductionism and dualism.” Ilia Delio, Making All Things New +…
