Why is it that engineers are such inherently attractive people? Is it that reliable preppy look of the 50's or the new geek sheek of the 21st century? Most likely it is the same secret weapon that sells millions of tabloids to the masses - they have inquiring minds.
Unlike the magazine cover that often disappoints once taking a look within, engineers seem to be people of substance. Their inquiring minds want to "know" and their creative talents investigate with the eye of an artist. For this reason, it is no wonder that High Tech articles like "Nerd in the Noosphere" appeared in CMC on-line in Vol. 2: No. 1, pg.3, Jan. 1, 1995
Environmental Engineers - Multidisciplinary /Field to Blend Science, Nature and the Human Spirit. While techies acknowledge the farsighted scientific and spiritual insight of Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin’s theory of the noosphere, questionsremain. When will environmental engineers research what may literally be "made in heaven" for them to undertake?
Noosphere theory is ripe for inquring minds honed on multidisciplinary studies to begin to blend science, nature, and spiritual research. Afterall, these are the guys and gals entering university studies like Uconn’s greeted with the following on-line EEP introduction:
"Welcome to the UConn - Environmental Engineering Program (EEP). Our mission is to provide a state of the art and multidisciplinary learning environment supported by cutting-edge research in three core areas (tracks):
(i) Biogeochemical processes (BGC); .
(ii) Air pollution and atmospheric processes (ATM);and
(iii)Hydrogeosciences and engineering (HGS)
These three tracks reflect the scope and interdisciplinary nature of Environmental Engineering. Peavy et al. (Environmental Engineering, 1985) provide the following definition: "that branch of engineering that is concerned with protecting the environment from the potentially deleterious effects of human activity, protecting human populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors and improving the environmental quality for human health and well-being".
Admittedly,noosphereis not exactly a word that trips off the lips of local physics professor or metaphysicial afficianadoes. Tthose disciplines should be involved in noospheric field studies even now. However, the Chardin theory easily falls within larger concerns like UConn's hopes for protecting the environment from deleterious human activity and adverse environmental factors. Why? Because Chardin;s model predicts the spiritual aspect of humanity will become more and more physical through heightened human consciousness.
Food for Thought and Research
IResearchers might ask:
1. Is there a heightened human consciousness being jetted around fhe world::.
2. Does our interconnectedness play a role through i
a. internet
b, cells
c. satellites
3. Do unseen waves bouncing around the world effecti
a. brains
b. bodies
c. environment
d. atmosphere
4. Is there a material form emerging that has an organic quality and or form to it?
5. Does that form contain a consciousness and or spirit of it's own.
As human communication intensifies, do we not suspect that our atmosphere and environment are facing overload from so many cross currents of wave fields? Aren’t these thought transferences having a real environmental impact even now? Is the noosphere real? More than mere food fort thought, this is a field ready for reseach.
Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere Identified
While Chardin was only taken seriously by his Jesuit order after his death in 1955, his name was cocktail conversation by then too. His face donned the covers of magazines. One Catholic university in whatr became the Silicon Valley, offered courses about Chardin’s ideas in the mid-1960's. Those students studied Einstein's Theory of relativity before undertaking to understand his philosophical work.
A multidisciplinary engineer with an inquiring mind would surely relish that. Teilhard de Chardin was no mad man off on a tangent. Chardin was an acclaimed palaentologist with a dedication to rigorous scientific approaches to his subject matter.
In his book "The Phenomenon of Man" the noosphere is a "planetary thinking network" -. a sort of global self-awareness with instant feedback. This planetary communication is an interlinked system of consciousness and information. For Teilhard, this consciousness is materialt taking on a material form. We learn that the Earth is undergoing a constant, progressive, evolutionary unfolding. Earth is developing on it’s own a new organ of consciousness called the noosphere.
Amazingly, at Chardin's death in 1955, the internet did not exist. Computers were the complex conductors of a limited systems of information. These conductors were housed in frameworks the size of a city block in some government facility, university, or corporation somewhere.
What has come to pass by way of the communication of the human thought and perhaps spirit since his passing indicates the worthiness of the noosphere theory. Studies should be undertaken as seriously as Jules Vernes contentions about life in the sea. Let the creative and inquring minds of environmental engineers seize this moment in time to recognize when the future is here.
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