What is Emerging?

A continuation from May’s Interchange article …

Last month we glanced at our world today to see what science has discovered regarding our world and our God. This month, let’s look at what science has discovered about the human.*

All of us humans living on Earth today started out as the least significant of matter and have evolved with Earth’s help, over the past billions of years through several stages. Most significantly, our consciousness has evolved and is still becoming; that is we continue to change as evolution pushes us forward on this great journey. The human person is essential to the continuation of evolution because we are evolution on the level of self-reflective thought. How we think is how we act and how we act determines what we become. We are the thinking portion of the Universe. And in this process every human develops different and more complex parts of who we have become. Teilhard de Chardin’s faithful research and study over many years resulted in the realization that the human brain is the most highly developed known in the Universe. The human is self-reflective — that is, we not only know, but we are able to know that we know. We will continue to increase in more complex consciousness as we continue on this evolutionary journey. We will become more whole, more one with each other and with all of creation.

*This is just a glance. I highly recommend Ilia Delio’s newest book “The Not-Yet God. Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole.”