A posthuman or Supramental era

The mystics, starting with Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo in the first half of the twentieth century, also prophesied that we were at a new stage in evolution, but they saw consciousness surrounding technology, and compressing and miniaturizing it into an antique fossil of intermediate cultural evolution as we passed on into a posthuman or 'Supramental' era in which we were welcomed back into the cosmic play. by William Irwin Thompson Chap. 4 of Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Culture by rjon on Tue 16 Jan 2007 11:16 PM PST Permanent Link