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@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...

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Oct 2021

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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Quoted by@walterkirn A who's who of paradigm-shift vectors, the group was always conceived as a network of thinkers, not a public movement, choosing depth over circulation, in one field of awareness. Members were a notable presence and force in the intellectual underground for a good while there.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP 1/2 Fascinating, isn't it, that Jean Houston literally ran into him as a child, on Park Avenue. Whose plan was that? I first ran across mention of him when I was out moving among the Sages, taking tea with Ralph Abraham, who was clearly startled I didn't know of him. Initiations.Quoted by@RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP 1/2 Fascinating, isn't it, that Jean Houston literally ran into him as a child, on Park Avenue. Whose plan was that? I first ran across mention of him when I was out moving among the Sages, taking tea with Ralph Abraham, who was clearly startled I didn't know of him. Initiations.