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Connection Is Not Communion: What a week at the ocean taught me about AI, evolution, and being human

By Ilia Delio | September 9, 2026

I have just returned from a week at the Jersey shore and continue to reflect on my time there. Reflection allows my analytical left brain to slow down and see life from a wider perspective. Each morning, I walked down to the water's edge, where the retreating tide had left the sand dark, firm, and glistening like a held breath. I stood there while the spent waves slid cold over my feet and pulled back again, over and back, as if the ocean were taking my measure. To stand at the edge of the sea is to stand at the edge of yourself. The horizon dissolves the seam between water and sky, and the mind, watching, begins to lose its...

The Power Of Love In An Unfinished World

By Kathleen Duffy | August 22, 2016

According to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Love is the most universal, formidable and mysterious of cosmic energies,” “the very blood stream of spiritual evolution” (Teilhard, Building the Earth, 45, 49).…

Co-creative Divinization: Towards Omega

By Peter Todd | August 15, 2016

For Jesuit paleontologist and visionary Teilhard de Chardin, the Omega point is the time-space in which psychospiritual and cultural evolution are consummated. Noogenesis is the evolution of a global membrane…

Can You Choose A Consciousness Of Love To Live From?

By Charlotte A. Tomaino | August 8, 2016

Question: “How many Neuropsychologists does it take to change a light bulb?” Answer: “Only one, but the light bulb has got to want to change.” Therein lies the essence of…

Love At The Heart Of The Cosmos

By Ilia Delio | August 1, 2016

The world is showing itself to be a very fragile place. Just yesterday a terrorist attack in Istanbul claimed the lives of innocent people; here in the United States we…

Evolution, Love, And Hyperphysics

By Ilia Delio | July 31, 2016

Evolution discloses a pattern in nature which can be described as fourfold: attraction, unity, complexity and emergence. Beginning with the Big Bang, there is an inherent force of attraction in nature.…

Love In A Fractured World: August, 2016

By WISR Institute | July 31, 2016

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] August’s theme: Love in a Fractured World: Exploring the deeper meaning of love as the root and source of existence itself. As we continue to add new content and explore our…