"We are moving forward toward some new critical point that lies ahead, a harmonized collectivity of consciousness equivalent to a sort of super-consciousness. The idea is that of the Earth not only becoming covered by myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflections. Beyond all conflict of empire, peace in conquest and work in joy await us in an interior totalization of the world on itself-in the unanimous building up of a
spirit of the Earth."
-- Teilhard de Chardin speaking of his vision of
our movement toward the "Omega Point"