THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

aware at that point mat she seemed to address a larger audience than
the students sitting in the class. 'Some form of distant learning
technology' flashed through my mind.
She roved close to the diagram and commented, Teilhard got
inspired by a little known work entitled The Biosphere by V.I.
Vernadsky, a Russian biologist of me 1920s. Teilhard generalised that
concept by seeing the evolution of as planet in embedded "spheres".
First the atmosphere which represents all the inert matter of this
planet; then the biosphere which regroups all life forms. It looks like
a more or less dense "biomass-crust" around the inert matter,
represented here in green. It is physically located in a thin layer
including a few feet below and a few thousand feet above earth's
surface, including the water and the lower reaches of the atmosphere
for birds, airborne insects and micro-organisms. It is only during the
21st century that humans finally shed the illusion that they can
disconnect from Nature. Only recently have they truly understood
that then, is only one life form on earth - the biosphere - and that the
entire human species plays a role similar to an organ in our own
body.
'The next layer up, me noosphere, represented here in blue' - she
pointed to an almost diaphanous lone in me graph - 'is more etheric’.
Itis the space where all forms of consciousness interplay, including
human consciousness. What Teilhard saw was that - as humanity
became more conscious of its interdependence – it would also grow
in me awareness of its Unity. He thought mat the object of human
evolution would be what he called 'Point Omega", a cosmic
consciousness of Unity respectful of all diversity.
'However, what Teiiherd did not see is how such a mysterious
process could occur. Remember, he wrote his major works around
the time of World War II and its aftermath. n is amazing that - under
those circumstances - he could foresee even the direction of the next