Teilhard de Chardin's 'Planetary Mind' and Our Spiritual Evolution (Dec 20, 2012) [encore]

Summary: Is technology taking us towards greatness, or hyper-connected collapse? Paleontologist and Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin foresaw this challenge a century ago. He penned forbidden ideas, mystical at the time, that humanity would develop a global intelligence. We join Dot Earth blogger Andy Revkin, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, and religious scholar Ursula King to discuss science and our spiritual evolution.