A Subject is a Subject through Other Subjects. There is a word rooted in South African culture which could just as well have come straight out of the notebooks of Teilhard. The varied faces of life and our daily encounters become our vehicle for liberation. In a singular and solitary sense, individual meditation practice is an avenue into the heart, and into ubuntu . Our awareness delivers us to the moment.
Relationships are the medium for transformation.
It's all inextricably interrelated. This passage seems reasonably inclusive at first glance. With each species that goes extinct, we are further impoverished in our ability to imagine the future. Thus, to say we are evolving beyond being a species is to ignore the very origin and nature of the imagination and to deny the primacy of relationship to our self-determination as humans. The growing of a deepened sensitivity to the inner life of other species enhances our own creative capabilities-we reinvent ourselves through the Other.