Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

It’s 1995. A hitch-hiking day-laborer, morning-drunk, asks me why I’m headed toward UCSC and Ralph H. Abraham. Judging him, I try opaque deflection: “To talk about the shift to a collective consciousness.” “Oh,” my passenger replies, “That’s the next step in evolution, isn’t it?”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 May 2021

@nils_gilman An evolutionary threshold long anticipated and astutely interpreted as a bifurcation point of sorts, where the great surge of a gathering, synthesis and integration of universal understanding, ultimately concresces in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history.

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Quoted by@profdwh Lovely. Was driving to a first-time rendez-vous with Lindisfarne fellow Ralph Abraham, one of the founders of chaos theory, and authoritative on Teilhard de Chardin's concept of planetary consciousness consolidation as it relates to the Cloud, when I stopped for a hitchhiker...Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @2000_mondo It always seemed he was much adored by those who knew him. My entire life turned upon a pivot when he gently and graciously let me know that he ('and I suspect' other men he knew I was speaking to) wouldn't turn up to any platform where women weren't given equal representation.Quoted by@2000_mondo It always seemed he was much adored by those who knew him. My entire life turned upon a pivot when he gently and graciously let me know that he ('and I suspect' other men he knew I was speaking to) wouldn't turn up to any platform where women weren't given equal representation.Quoted by@ThamKhaiMeng You might enjoy this!Quoted by1/ Twitter triptych. Why cyberspace?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @antoniogm @nfergus We move and live in an evolving universe, after all, infinitely greater than any dominative religious or secular culture or narrative. Call it whatever you will.Quoted by@antoniogm @nfergus We move and live in an evolving universe, after all, infinitely greater than any dominative religious or secular culture or narrative. Call it whatever you will.