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“God is nowhere. God is now here.” – Philip K. Dick
The Omega Point is a theory conceived of and developed by the French mystical Jesuit and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin meant to explain evolution and the end of time to the human world.
You know you’re in good company when you’re in the middle and roundly attacked by both sides.
In Teilhard de Chardin’s case, “both sides” meant the Western secular scientists over here, and the Catholic church over there.
Those are big enemies to face down.
This particular French mystical Jesuit and scientist (not as rare a creature as it might sound) did it for the love of truth.
May we all be so blessed.
The end of time is a wild concept, to say the least.
It’s when everything stops happening.
Nothing moves. Nothing develops. Anywhere. At all.
Also, nothing ages. Nothing dies.
I will offer, next, a further interpretation of the Omega Point.
I cannot pretend to understand this.
I can only claim to be massively fascinated by it and to believe that it may well have so much truth to it that it is the truth.
Teilhard de Chardin basically predicted the internet at least fifty years before it actually happened when he said that humans were moving toward a higher consciousness with technology, a global web of human consciousness that was a natural part of evolution.
He claimed that this would raise human consciousness to higher levels, and eventually, much higher levels.
That hasn’t happened yet; but it doesn’t mean that it never will.
The Omega Point is the end of all time, and it is what the Universe itself (and all the Universes around ours) are moving toward.
It’s the time and the point when all things merge together and stop moving.
“No time” means no pain.
And every single consciousness that has ever existed – everything that has ever lived – all animals, all plants, all humans, all stars, all celestial bodies, all everything – will become one, while simultaneously maintaining their separate knowledge and separate consciousnesses.
In other words, we will all be together, in a good way.
Suffering will end.
And we will know all of it and everything, even the Ultimate Reason why.
All of the above is what we call, in English, GOD.
According to the theory.
Until then, we can all continue to hum along with the country singer Chris Stapleton when he sings, so sweetly, from his song “Broken Halos,” “Don’t go looking for the reasons / Don’t go asking Jesus why / We’re not meant to know the answers / They belong to the by and by. / They belong to the by and by.”
(“I am the Alpha and the Omega.” – Jesus Christ)
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Hi James
It popped up a day early, was captured and now is appearing at the proper time.
Leila
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Hello Dr. DWB
Time is interesting, encouraging and frightening. Einstein said all time exists at once, and since I can (in a kinda-sorta way) grasp that I fear that we might always be repeating our lives. Never dead. Never knowing that we are whatever rerun happening in 13.8 billion or so years. Now, if changes were/are possible, all right. Maybe we remember enough at a critical moment to call someone pride previously wouldn’t allow us to, or turn right and avoid the accident.
Of course such can only be a game to play. But I wouldn’t mind going in next time with some notes hidden in my shoe.
Thoughtful and thought provoking post.
Leila (day three w/o “!”)
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LA
T.S. Eliot said, “Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future / And time future contained in time past…If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.”
Not sure I know what he meant but I think I know what he’s saying! (Only an exclamation point could capture the intuitive confusion, perhaps.)
I think the two key words in his lines are “PERHAPS” and “UNREDEEMABLE.”
Thanks for traveling down this speculative road with me!
DB
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Hello hello
TS and Groucho Marx were pals. I wonder what their dinner conversations were like
Getting people to thjnk and express is a high accomplishment for a writer. You continue to hit that mark every day.
LA
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I am confused by time and multi world theory and all time is now. I ask am I really here, where is here. How do I know what happened, happened and where are the people that I knew? We now understand that every time we take out a memory it is subtly changed before we put it away again, this explains to a degree how two of us remember the same event in different ways. But, honestly I just have to go with my own ‘belief’ immature and airy fairy as they might be. Now and then I think I’ve got a handle on it, then it slips away and I am as confused as ever. the description of the internet was eerily accurate, fingers crossed (because that seems as worthwhile as anything else) that maybe it will raise us because at the moment we are in the swamp and seemingly many are stomping on the shoulders of us to get to the good air. Interesting post – thank you – dd
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Diane
Thanks for these excellent thoughts that add wonderful extra layers to this speculative essay.
Right now, the internet etc. seems to be stunting the consciousnesses, and the humanity, of, literally, billions of people.
But it isn’t doing that to everyone.
And just because we’re at a low point now, doesn’t mean we can’t rise higher one day!
Even if it takes a thousand years, the fact that it might happen, could happen, and/or can happen, does give hope. Thanks again.
Dale
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DWB
This draws you in with a quote by PKD. A read that will require more reading. I find the Jesuits to be a very interesting sect.
There was a story in the New Yorker where scientists showed the exact minute of the dinosaurs extinction. It was pretty sad even to the point of tears.
Time may be the most mysterious phenomenon of all. Where does it go? Super cool picture. The reflective ceiling adds to this in a futuristic way!
Christopher
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CJA
Glad you like the PKD quote. I recently read VALIS by PKD (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). Horselover Fat is a great character/s. The religious and philosophical ideas in this short novel rocket it far above any ordinary genre fiction. Also fine and hilarious descriptions of drug and alcohol abuse and the benefits and inevitable consequences. Autobiographical.
Thanks about the picture. Glad the futuristic aspect came through. In honor of PKD.
The more I study and think about him over the years, the more his real stature increases within the mind. In some ways better than Hemingway. Or the Hemingway of the current century (he arrived ahead of his time).
DWB
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