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A visionary venture into the mysteries of our universe
In his new book, Richard Grossinger, anthropologist and author of many volumes on vital subjects including consciousness and cosmology, remarks: ‘Our own verdict and existential bottom line rest on the riddle of whether this is a spiritual universe with physical transits or a physical universe of phantoms and apparitions.’
It’s a strong echo of the influential French thinker Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), a Jesuit priest, scientist and philosopher, for whom humankind was inseparable from the universe and evolution the foundation of his teaching. He believed humans were developing to higher states through the complexification of physical, biological and social systems and the advance of science and technology.
Famously, Teilhard who, arguably, single-handedly originated the notion of a universal spiritualization of evolution, said: ‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.’
I refer to Teilhard because in Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms: Cosmogenesis from the Big Bang to octopus and crow Intelligence to UFOs (Park Street Press, US $16.99 / UK £12.99, September 2022), Grossinger’s evolutionary consciousness and context is manifest.
As evolutionary consciousness is a drive where consciousness is aware of itself as…
