Pioneers & Theorists
Click on Image to Enlarge Phi Beta Iota: We reproduce the excerpt in order to add links to all of the books and individuals mentioned. Tip of the Hat to Reality Sandwich for this offering, and to Evolver Editions (North Atlantic/Random House) for their new Manifesto series in support of human consciousness and planetary synthesis.
MUST READ CAPSTONE WORK: Noosphere — The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, A Testimony by Jose Arguelles
The noosphere, identified in the early twentieth century as intrinsic to the next stage of human and terrestrial evolution, is defined as the Earth’s “mental sphere” or stratum of human thought. the final work by renowned author José Argüelles, predicts that the noosphere will be fully accessed on December 21, 2012—but warns that we will only successfully make this evolutionary jump through an act of collective consciousness among humans on Earth. The ascension to the noosphere or Supermind (using the terminology of Sri Aurobindo), Argüelles says, will be an unprecedented “mind shift” that mirrors the emergence of life itself on the planet. {*style:<i> Manifesto for the Noosphere </i>*}is intended to inform and prepare humanity for the nature and magnitude of this shift. Argüelles brings in the Mayan long-count calendar, radical theories on the nature of time, advanced states of consciousness, and the possible intervention of galactic intelligence.
North Atlantic Books - Manifesto for the Noosphere
José Argüelles , born Joseph Anthony Arguelles ( / ɑr ˈ ɡ w eɪ . ɨ s / ; Rochester, Minnesota January 24, 1939 – March 23, 2011), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an American New Age author and artist. He was the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. He held a Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago and taught at numerous colleges, including Princeton University and the San Francisco Art Institute . He was the twin brother of poet Ivan Argüelles . As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, at Davis, California .
José Argüelles
Jose Arguelles
Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, A Testimony
To mark the recent passing of José Argüelles, we offer an excerpt from his upcoming book Manifesto for the Noosphere : The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness , available from Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books in October 2011. We must enlarge our approach to encompass the formation taking place before our eyes ... of a particular biological entity such as has never existed on earth-the growth, outside and above the biosphere, of an added planetary layer, an envelope of thinking substance, to which, for the sake of convenience and symmetry, I have given the name of the Noosphere. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man
Jose Arguelles
Arguelles, who styled himself Valum Votan, Closer of the Cycle and President of the Foundation for the Law of Time, claimed to have been inspired by calendars left in Central America by Maya Indians, who were in turn inspired by extraterrestrials from the Galactic Federation. The Mayans, he claimed, tell us we entered our current stage of evolution in 3113BC when the Earth and Sun began a long journey through an energy beam emanating from the Milky Way. In 2012, the solar system would leave the beam: “As the year 2012 approaches, the planet will be humming and vibrating as never before,” Arguelles wrote in The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (1987). He wanted a “critical mass” of 144,000 New Age believers to gather at sacred sites such as Mount Olympus, the Egyptian pyramids, the Dead Sea and San Francisco Bay to witness the new dawn.Omega Point is a term coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving. In this theory, developed by Teilhard in The Future of Man (1950), the universe is constantly developing towards higher levels of material complexity and consciousness, a theory of evolution that Teilhard called the Law of Complexity/Consciousness .
Omega Point
Liubov Gordina, "Noosphere Spiritual-Ecological Constitution for Mankind"
Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues! I would like to begin my presentation with expression of my gratitude to the organizers of the Second Planetary Congress on the Bio-Sphere Rights and to the Foundation of the Time Law for the possibility to address this audience. I came from Moscow, Russia in order to tell you about the Noosphere Spiritual Ecological World Assembly, (World Assembly, NSEWA) , of which I have the honour to be a President. I represented NSEWA in a lot if international forums, including the Global Forum of the Earth of the Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio + 10) in Johannesburg (2002), at different conferences held in the framework of World Exhibition EXPO-2005 in Japanese Nagoya (2005) and in other forums.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ ( French: [pjɛʁ tejaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] ; May 1, 1881 – April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man and Piltdown Man . [ 1 ] Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky 's concept of Noosphere .
Roger Nelson is Director of the IONS-sponsored Global Consciousness Project (GCP) , an international collaboration of scientists, artists, and citizens interested in the extraordinary aspects of human consciousness. He also coordinates research in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University. Nelson's professional training is in experimental psychology and psychophysiology, supplemented by a background in physics, statistical methods, engineering, sculpture, electronic music, and multi-media production. He is a student of "alternate psychologies" which represent a wide range of transpersonal and non-western approaches to the understanding of consciousness. He feels that an inclusive and multi-disciplinary approach combining scientific, aesthetic, and spiritual perspectives is essential if we are to come to terms with consciousness as it exists and operates in the physical world. In 1980, Dr.
Roger D. Nelson
Vladimir Vernadsky
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky ( Russian : Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский , Ukrainian : Володимир Іванович Вернадський ; 12 March [ O.S. 28 February] 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry , biogeochemistry , and of radiogeology . [ 1 ] His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism .Foundation:: About company
Address speech by Vernadsky Foundation President Kirill Stepanov on Vladimir Vernadsky anniversary.Anaxagoras ( Ancient Greek : Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras , "lord of the assembly"; c. 510 – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher . Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor , Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens . He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses , meteors , rainbows , and the sun , which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese .