Ilia Delio on The New Garden, “Transhumanism: Where Is the Line?”

In this conversation with The New Garden podcast, Sr. Ilia Delio explores how an evolutionary vision of love can guide us through a century being reshaped by biotechnology, AI, and networked life. Rather than framing technology as enemy or savior, Ilia asks: What forms of innovation help heal persons and communities, and what forms fragment our bonds and diminish our shared humanity? How might a renewed consciousness—attentive, relational, and creative—become the ground from which wise technological choices emerge?

Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin’s insight that love is the fundamental energy of the cosmos, Ilia reflects on human becoming in a planetary age: personhood and community, the emergence of the noosphere, and the practical spirituality needed to translate contemplation into action.