If it has intelligibility,
then it's not what might be called crass matter, otherwise it would not
have what I call radiant intelligibility until you understood that.
And so he kept this sensitivity to that, and
he was able to tell the story of the universe as a progressive
emergence of ascending forms of consciousness.
Throughout the earlier developments of the universe
from the beginnings of the fireball on through the Galacticus
shaping the Earth, argents of life and so forth.
Later somebody like Ilya Prigozhin would tell the story
in terms of self organizing power of the universe, so
that summary of his work by Erich Jantsch entitled The Self Organizing Universe.
>> Mm-hm.
>> So.
>> But Teilhard was the first to really put the physical and
the psychic as integral?
>> As integral and to follow the sequence of its emergence
with the richness that he would say was a gift to it.
But, so that the great work of Prigozhin is to identify the fact
that even at the chemical level, there's a self organizing power.
That for religious people, when a person talked about a self organizing universe,
they get the impression well you're doing away with the divine controls or
the extent of things.
Well there's, first of all, there's no out there,
there's only so to speak an in here.
And so that the best way to think of
the divine as intrinsic to creation.
>> Right. >> Because obviously there would be
no creation without, except as manifestation,
the divine won't amount to manifesting himself ,he can't do it out there
because there isn't any out there, there's only the in there.
[LAUGH] Otherwise the divine would not be omnipresent and
so forth, so- >> Right, yeah, that certainly is
an essential insight, and so fundamental then to the whole all that has followed
in kind of this development ecological age, or the sense of the sacredness.
>> Yeah, and development toward that.