A love letter to Ilia and Peirre Teilhard de Chardin Dear Ilia,
I am so grateful to have found your books, your website, the Omega community and you, the prophet. Of course none of this was accidental. It all started with a car accident on my 21st birthday in 1968. I was driving alone at night, back to my job as a junior housemistress in a rural boarding school in Australia. Only my knee was badly injured in the accident but when I regained consciousness in the ambulance, I was aware of a terrible pain in my chest (bruising from the impact against the steering wheel before seat belts) as I struggled to breathe, it crossed my mind that I might be dying. I remember clearly thinking ‘what did the nuns teach us to do when one is dying?’. I was feeling pretty panicky by now and said the ‘Our Father’ as I was praying I relaxed with great relief because I knew from that moment (since never waived in my whole body conviction), that I actually, after all that teenage angst and doubt , did believe in God and more importantly that he/she believed in me. It was the greatest birthday gift I could have wished for . However it took about 15 years of ‘unfolding’’ to recognise the giftedness of this experience. The freedom of discovering that “faith” is not a noun but a verb of growing and becoming has given me licence to come and go, explore here and there, on and off. From Liberation theology, to the feminist project, sojouning with protestant friends and projects in social justice and ecological activism to Francis’ Laudato Si, the testament in scripture and finally home to the cosmic Christ and Teilhard de Chardin. Recently I get quite giddy, or ‘tipsy’, in awe and wonder at evolutionary creation and sometimes can cry at the privilege of being part of it. When I see an ant, busy about its business, or a weed struggling between the paving stones, I say to them,’even to be one of you would have been a great gig in this universe!, but to be chosen to be human through chance and natural selection, at this time of internet and DNA, to live in this country of security and more than my needs, to be a woman, a mother, grandmother and to have reached this consciousness of ’ unbearable wholeness’ and all that that means takes my breath away, like a car crash! Just one question. I don’t believe in “supernatural” any more. Is that heresy? The more I read about evolutionary biology and ponder on its implications for an evolutionary chistology, the more it seems to me that from the sub atomic to the cosmic scale, natural creativity, interconnectivity, communication networks, diversity, regeneration: have it all in hand. Thus the concept of ’super-nature’ is a tautology. I hope humanity can redeem itself, so that homo sapiens can continue to evolve into communities of healing and peace, but if not, then the infinite impulse will mourn the suffering and loss, but life is’ immortal and love is eternal’ (Bede Jarret) Resurrection goes on in the now, on the cusp of creating the future. Many thanks for your website. People like me need your company and inspiration. Patricia
Patricia DevlinMonasterevin, co.Kildare.Ireland, AK
In the entire universe there is only energy and consciousness, two facets of a unified whole that link material and spiritual energy together, making them a continuity in which all things consist and cohere. The highest, or spiritual end of this organic continuum is known by different names in different religions worldwide. It was incarnated in Jesus, who became Christ, in whom all lines converge, complete one another and interlock, and where all impurities and diversities melt away. In material form, the proper domain of physics, this energy-consciousness (or Spirit) is foundational to all things visible. Though unseen, its everywhere abundant in so-called empty space. Just as the same food stuffs can fuel actions both wise and foolish, this energy can be drawn upon for either good or ill, enhancing or diminishing the life of the whole, and its constituent parts. In that regard, contrary to what the public is being “fed,” there is no global energy crisis. Rather, there NEED be no energy crisis of this sort, or climate change, or food insecurity of the magnitude now existent. That’s because the means of extracting this free energy from empty space has been developed. Properly directed, it can be deployed for general use worldwide in addressing these global maladies, reversing them in less than one generation. Engineered from off-world intelligences with technological capabilities far exceeding our own, it is instead being secreted, hoarded, and weaponized by the power brokers of our day, and with no public accountability. Science, technology, and extrasensory consciousness can be dangerous in the wrong hands, particularly in human power structures. And that is not good. Like legendary Prometheus, those who steal fire from the gods in this way are playing dice with the devil and will ultimately wield his sword.