Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: On Looking at a Cyclotron: Reflections on the Folding-Back upon Itself of Human Energy

Visiting Berkeley’s cyclotrons, Teilhard de Chardin sees more than machines—he perceives symbols of humanity’s own acceleration. Our vast networks of research, energy, and invention, converging like particles in a magnetic field, are drawing humankind into a single reflective consciousness—an evolutionary spiral toward the ultra-human, where science and spirit finally unite.