re Teilhard de Chardin

[Doug Millison]

http://www.wie.org/j19/teilhardintro.asp
The Divination of the Cosmos
An Interview with Brian Swimme
on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
by Susan Bridle 

excerpts:
"Teilhard de Chardin in the West and Sri Aurobindo in India really arrived
at the same basic vision, which is that the unfolding of the universe is a
physical evolution and also a spiritual evolution.[...] Christians said,
"Evolution, that's horrible!" And scientists said, "Theism, that's
horrible!" Aurobindo and Teilhard brought them together. So I think of them
both as geniuses who synthesized the two visions. Teilhard attempted to get
beyond the fundamental subjective/objective dualism in much of Western
thought. He began to really see the universe as a single energy event that
was both physical and psychic or even spiritual. I think that's his great
contribution: He began to see the universe in an integral way, not as just
objective matter but as suffused with psychic or spiritual energy. 
Also, in my thinking, the central idea of Teilhard is his law of
"complexification-consciousness." He identifies this as the fundamental law
of evolution. He sees that the whole process is about complexifying and
deepening intelligence or subjectivity. The entire movement of the universe
in its complexification is simultaneously a movement further into the depths
of consciousness, or interiority."


... a knotting into, you might say.