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"Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during her final illness. The title of the collection and of the short story is taken from a passage from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_That_Rises_Must_Converge]

"Teilhard studied what he called the rise of spirit, or evolution of consciousness, in the universe. He believed it to be observable and verifiable in a simple law he called the Law of Complexity/Consciousness. This law simply states that there is an inherent compulsion in matter to arrange itself in more complex groupings, exhibiting higher levels of consciousness. The more complex the matter, the more conscious it is...  The universe, he argued, strives towards higher consciousness, and does so by arranging itself into more complex structures.  Teilhard identified what he termed to be different stages in the rise of consciousness. These stages are analogous to what are termed the geosphere and the biosphere. The Law of Complexity/ Consciousness traces matter's path through these stages, as it 'complexifies' upon itself and rises in consciousness. Teilhard claimed that although it is not evident, consciousness (in an extremely limited degree) exists even in rocks, as the Law of Complexity/ Consciousness implies. In plants, matter is complex enough to exhibit a consciousness that is the very life of the plant. In animals, matter is complex enough to an extraordinary degree to where consciousness shows itself in a wide range of reactionary movement to the whole universe.  However, Teilhard here proposed another level of consciousness, to which human beings belong, because of their cognitive ability; i.e. their ability to 'think'. Human beings, Teilhard argued, represent the layer of consciousness which has "folded back in upon itself", and has become self-conscious. Julian Huxley, Teilhard's scientific colleague, described it like this: "evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself." So in addition to the geosphere and the biosphere, Teilhard posited another sphere, which is the realm of human beings, the realm of reflective thought: the noosphere.  In the noosphere Teilhard believed the same Law of Complexity/Consciousness to be at work, although not in a way previously seen. He argued that ever since human-beings first came into existence 200,000 years ago, the Law of Complexity/ Conscious began to run on a different (higher) plane. Consciousness in the universe, he argued, now continues to rise in the complex arrangement and unification (Teilhard sometimes called it 'totalization') of mankind on earth. As human beings converge around the earth, he reasoned, unifying themselves in ever more complex forms of arrangement, consciousness will rise. Finally, the keystone to his phenomenology is that because Teilhard could not explain why the universe would move in the direction of more complex arrangements and higher consciousness, he postulated that there must exist ahead of the moving universe, and pulling it along, a higher pole of supreme consciousness, which he called Omega Point."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin]

 

Hmmmm.... How interesting that per my 4/23/09 "Faraday's Variable" posting, work by David Bohm has established a physical science basis for Omega Point convergence which, in Bohm's terminology, is called the Implicate Order.  And how does this all fit with the presence of superior beings like Jacob, influencing and observing the testing of our species' readiness to move up the Sephirothic Tree of Life, up the Jacob's Ladder of matter-energy-space-time relations, toward achieving Omega Point existence, freed from the constraints of space and time, as a truly nonlocal, atemporal being....?

 

While all of the key pieces of the puzzle are now in place, to paraphrase Jacob's response to Jack when the vending machine was reluctant to give up the Apollo bar, we need a bit of a 'push' to help pop out the remaining parts of the pattern and complete the Season 6 puzzle....  And here we must turn to that 1953 sci fi classic by Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End.... ³

 

"Childhood's End is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, dealing with the role of Mind in the cosmos and the plausible implications of that role for the evolution of the human race. It was originally published in 1953 but first appeared as a 1950 short story titled "Guardian Angel" in Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine.... Childhood's End explores humanity's transformation and integration with an interstellar "hive mind" or Overmind. It also touches upon such matters as cruelty to animals, man's inability to live in a utopian society, and the apocalyptic concept of The Last Man on Earth. The 1953 edition of the story begins at the height of the Cold War, a few decades after the fall of the Third Reich, with attempts by both the United States and the Soviet Union to launch nuclear rockets into space for military purposes, threatening imminent doom for the planet."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End]

 

Clarke's masterwork bridges to Lost in many key ways, ranging from last night's tantalizing hints at a Season 6 species evolution plotline to the prior themes of cruelty, difficulties in living together, and the threat of planetary cataclysm (DHARMA, Valenzetti....)  But the real value this work brings to the table lies in its insights into the nature and roles of: (1) superior beings overseeing the evolution; and (2) children displaying psychic abilities, paving an evolutionary pathway up the 'Jacob's Ladder'.  How ironic that Clarke's vision underscores the importance of Children in establishing and ensuring the evolutionary maturation of our species, a.k.a. the titular Childhood's End....

 

"Karellen then reveals the true purpose of why the Overlords came to Earth. They are in service to the Overmind, a cosmic mind amalgamated from ancient galactic civilizations, freed from the limitations of ordinary matter. The Overlords are not themselves capable of joining the Overmind, but the Overmind has charged them with the duty of fostering humanity's transition to a higher plane of existence and merger with the Overmind.... Karellen expresses an envy of humanity; his race is trapped as they are, as they are not now capable of joining the Overmind, though he hopes they will eventually learn how to do so."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End]

"They resemble the traditional human folklore image of demons: bipeds with large wings, horned heads, and tails. The Overlords are taller than humans and of proportionally more massive bodies covered with a hard, black armor shell. The Overlords' resemblance to the devil of human folklore is explained as a form of racial memory and it is assumed (and not contradicted by the Overlords) that they had visited the Earth many thousands of years previously. The presumed failure of the experiment at that time led to the memory."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End]

 

"The Overlords begin to pay a discreet interest in the human experience of the occult and psychic research. It is assumed by humans that this is part of their anthropological study of mankind. Rupert Boyce has the best collection of books on the subject in the world and when the Overlords ask to borrow them he refuses, but allows an Overlord called Rashaverak to visit him and study the books. He uses the visit to impress friends and has a party during the Overlords stay. At the party a Ouija board session is conducted, watched by Rashaverak. The answers to questions given by the board are all explicable from knowledge in the minds of the participants except when a young engineer called Jan Rodricks asks the identity of the Overlord's home planet. The boards spells out the number from a star catalog — NGS 549672. One of the participants faints and there is a commotion during which the transcription of this part of the seance disappears. It is revealed that the Overlords suspect this occurrence is the first sign of what it to come.  Although humanity and the Overlords have developed peaceful and even friendly relations by now, the spread of equal goods and the ban on building space ships capable of traveling past the Earth's moon causes some sects to believe their innovation and independence is being suppressed and that culture is becoming stagnant. In response, those sects establish "New Athens", an island colony. Some ten years after the Overlords revealed themselves to humanity, human children begin displaying telepathic and telekinetic abilities and as a result, become estranged from their parents.... The racial memory of the devil in human folklore is now revealed not as a memory of past events but as a prescient "memory" of the Overlords' role in the extinction of Homo sapiens that results from the children's evolution. Karellen expresses an envy of humanity; his race is trapped as they are, as they are not now capable of joining the Overmind, though he hopes they will eventually learn how to do so..... Karellen announces that the children with psychic powers will be segregated from the rest of humanity on a continent of their own, and only these children will merge with the Overmind. No more children are born; the narration subtly hints that most of the parents commit suicide, while their children evolve towards merging with the Overmind. New Athens is destroyed by its leaders, by the detonation of a nuclear bomb."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End]

 

So is this signaling a Season 6 plotline focused on the LOST CHILDREN?  Yes, I most definitely believe this will be the case....  Now the pieces are starting to come together more completely....  From Bea Klugh's fervent interest in the lineage and DNA of Walt.... to Claire's visit with the psychic prior to the Oceanic 815 flight....  As Clarke's vision so masterfully underscores, the fate of the species in evolving to a higher plane of existence will critically depend on the children.... 

And at the close of Childhood's End, we learn that:

 

"The last man alive is Jan Rodricks, a physicist, who will witness mankind's final evolutionary transformation..... When Rodricks returns from the Overlord home world, he expects no one on Earth will remember him, nevertheless, he is unprepared for the return: mankind, as he knew it, has died.  About three hundred million naked young beings, physically human but otherwise with nothing in common to Man, remain on the quarantined continent. They are the final, physical form of human evolution before merging with the Overmind. Life on their continent — not only human life, but all other forms also — has been exterminated by them. No normal children have been born and all adults have met their end through despair. The vast cities that Jan remembers are all dark.  Some Overlords remain on Earth, studying the evolved children. It also is revealed here that the Overlords have met and conditioned other races for the Overmind, and that humanity is the fifth race whose apotheosis they have witnessed.  When the evolved children have grown strong enough to mentally alter the Moon's rotation and affect other planetary adjustments, it becomes too dangerous to remain and the Overlords prepare to leave. They offer Rodricks the opportunity of leaving with them, but he chooses to remain as witness to Earth's dissolution. Mankind's offspring have evolved to a higher existence, requiring neither a body nor a place, so ends mankind's childhood.... Rodericks reports, via radio, a great burning column of energy/matter ascending from Earth bearing indescribable colours and patterns. As he watches the Earth's gravity begins to decrease, the atmosphere starts escaping to space and material objects seem to dissolve around him. He reports no fear but a sense of accomplishment and completion and then a blinding flash of light as the Earth evaporates.."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End]

 

 

"Sobek (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, Sobki, Soknopais, and in Greek, Suchos) was the deification of crocodiles, as crocodiles were deeply feared in the nation so dependent on the Nile River. Egyptians who worked or travelled on the Nile hoped that if they prayed to Sobek, the crocodile god, he would protect them from being attacked by crocodiles. The god Sobek, which was depicted as a crocodile or a man with the head of a crocodile was a powerful and frightening deity; in some Egyptian creation myths, it was Sobek who first came out of the waters of chaos to create the world.  As a creator god, he was occasionally linked with the sun god Ra.... Sobek's ambiguous nature led some Egyptians to believe that he was a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself, for example, going to Duat to restore damage done to the dead as a result of their form of death. He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part. In this way, he was seen as a more primal god, eventually becoming regarded as an avatar of the primal god Amun, who at that time was considered the chief god. When his identity finally merged, Amun had become merged himself with Ra to become Amun-Ra, so Sobek, as an avatar of Amun-Ra, was known as Sobek-Ra.^"   [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek]

"Stapledon's writings directly influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Stanislaw Lem, C. S. Lewis and John Maynard Smith and indirectly influenced many others, contributing many ideas to the world of science fiction. The "supermind" composed of many individual consciousnesses forms a recurring theme in his work. Star Maker contains the first known description of what are now called Dyson spheres. Freeman Dyson credits the novel with giving him the idea. Last and First Men features early descriptions of genetic engineering and terraforming."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon]

"A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive. Stapledon's conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. The book anticipates genetic engineering, and the idea of superminds composed of many telepathically-linked individuals."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men]

"Star Maker is a cornerstone work of science fiction. Stapledon undertakes the immense task of describing the entire history of life in the universe. It dwarfs in scale even his 1930 book Last and First Men, which is a history of the human species over two billion years. It tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator.... A key idea is the formation of collective minds from many telepathically linked individuals, on the level of planets, galaxies, and eventually the cosmos itself.  The climax of the book is the "supreme moment of the cosmos", when the cosmical mind (which includes the narrator) attains momentary contact with the "Star Maker" of the title. The Star Maker is the creator of the universe, but stands in the same relation to it as an artist to his work, and calmly assesses its quality without any feeling for the suffering of its inhabitants."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker]

 

"The New People was a very very short lived ABC television series which aired from September 22, 1969 to January 12, 1970 and almost nobody remembers. The New People was an Aaron Spelling production about a band of young college students who, on their way home from a goodwill tour to South East Asia, crashed on a deserted South Pacific island named Bomao. The island had previously been used by the Atomic Energy Commission as a bomb test site, and so was complete with buildings, cars, provisions, and test-dummy mannequins." [http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/TNP/]