Beckoning us from some distant future, the Omega Point begins a new paradigm perpetuating all life forever.  In doing so, however, a new way of thinking must occur, one where selfishness is vanquished so that a unity of minds can combine into a more cohesive community.  On the forefront of this transmigration are two men who have seen the future through different disciplines and have endeavored to interpret its meaning.  One of the most important glimpses came from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.  A Jesuit priest by training, he helped solidify the Omega point into a spirituality that mankind had to strive for.  In contrast, the physicist Frank Tipler used science to prove his observations on what was being projected into the far future.  Together these two great thinkers brought about what is to become the Omega Point theory.        

      Pierre Teilhard de Chardin believed that humanity could achieve a form of Godhood or a high level of spirituality called the Omega Point.  This was an evolutionary process that everyone could attain through discipline and dedication to the path of enlightenment.  He coined the phrase noosphere that is a sphere of the mind above the animalistic biosphere.  The noosphere is a sphere of reflection and conscious intentions that binds with all of humanity.  He maintains that evolution has a definite direction called an Ariadne’s thread, a connection with the growing complexity of the human mind that seems to push us forward, or pull us toward a time of self-actualized Godhood.  He suggests that awareness with self-reflection was the source of transcendence; he says, “an evolution conscious of itself could also direct itself.”  If human evolution has a direction then a self-reflecting noosphere could influence its own course toward whatever potential strange attractor lies ahead.  

     Teilhard also became aware of the future effect of electronic machines enhancing our mental capacity.  Due to the growth and speeding-up of communications, we find ourselves in a more tangible global community.  While utilizing the Internet one can publish his or her views so that thousands if not millions of people can read them.  Not just English speaking people but with the use of translation software we can reach people of different languages as well.   Teilhard felt that as one’s area of activity through contact with others grew, so does the complexity of economic and social relationships.  With this need to adapt to the ever-increasing chaos of the world it was necessary to create technology that would ease the strain put on our global society.  In doing so we are becoming conscious, especially through technology, of our global community and the great influence we have on others around the world.  We are starting to think alike, thanks to the media; we certainly know the mind-set of western society.  It’s no wonder that there is a backlash from certain segments of our world population.  These violent and sentimental people are hanging on to the past not realizing that it’s too late so they lash out with violence.  If only they had a TV show.  But in a way they do via the evening news.  It’s time to take note of the various cultures of the world and integrate them into our own with respect and tolerance.  We are to become one global mind not with a single vision but a myriad of complex thoughts and aspirations. There has to be conflict in order to grow, finding compromise while obtaining a collective consensus.  All people, no matter how complex or variant, are part of a single, fundamental structure of the universe.  We all have basically the same needs and hopes.  Our spirituality reflects our conscious mind, especially our hope that there is a better life just around the corner.  It is this spirit of the world that will unite us into the noosphere. 

     Our existence is like a fractal, an equation that consists of reiteration and feedback.  Like information processing machines, we take on the endless stream of information and what we can process is projected onto our environment in an effort to achieve some validation, all the while habituating our behavior so that we can learn the intricacies of mundane life.  It is unfortunate that there are some that have fallen into an endless and ancient loop.  They stand upon a stage made of sand deceitfully pontificating some arcane and useless belief structure.  Not to say that it might have been pertinent at the time but change plays an important role in our intellectual and spiritual development.  What we project on the world around us is a subconscious program.  At an early age we are manipulated into the prevailing social ideology of our environment.  According to the eminent psychiatrist Karen Horney, the relationship we have with our initial caregivers dictates the relationship we have with others throughout our lives.  If we have a negative experience we seek out that same experience because it’s easier.  Energy flows toward the lease amount of resistance.  It takes a conscious effort to change.  Since we interact with other processing machines sometimes we become confused and allow others to influence us instead of developing our own beliefs and interpretations.  It is up to us to snap out of the dream we’re in and take the wheel instead of being mere passengers.  We are both creator and creation; there is no separating the two.  Like Heisenburg’s uncertainty principle, we are not separate from our environment but part of it.   

     The physicist, Frank Tipler, posited that we exist in a spatially closed universe and because of gravity will eventually contract into a big crunch.  It is during this march toward the end of history that life will grow to encompass the whole universe.  We will accomplish this with the use of self-replicating machines or probes that will be sent out into space.  We are already starting to understand and build quantum computers, which are extremely small and lightweight.  This, and the development of matter-antimatter rockets, and the ability to download our consciousness within the next hundred years will enable us to truly explore space.  It might take billions of years before life engulfs the universe, but in the end we will have our own universe to master.   
 
     Tipler’s Omega Point would then be the future pinnacle of the evolution of life in this universe.  The processing of information and energy producing it will be infinite at this c-boundary.  It’s not the physical universe that’s infinite but the information that is to be processed.  This will give the Omega Point an aura of Godhood in that it will be omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.  It will be the Omega Point that reaches back in time to find our consciousness, resurrecting us into immortality, for information can never be destroyed but only lay dormant on the quantum field.  Tipler claims that the properties of the Omega Point correspond to Biblical references to God.  One reference in particular, "I shall be who I shall be“, reflects a future event where God comes into being, as does “Thy kingdom come.”  This tells us the proof of God will be fully revealed in the future.  But in the meantime, we should search within ourselves for strength and guidance.       
  
     A spark of divinity dwells within us as we ascend toward a time of unprecedented possibilities, not just a chosen few but all beings who feel the need to become something more than what we are.  All theologies and mythologies are but mere reflections of the Omega Point.  Whenever we get the feeling that there is something better ahead of us, or we get some vision of what an ideal future would be like, it is a manifestation of the essence of the Omega Point.  With Teilhard de Chardin’s bent toward a future of spiritual human beings and Tipler’s physics of the pervasiveness of life, one can imagine a time where the universe will become a paradise of our own making.  Although these concepts seem anthropic in nature, I have to suggest that because of some morphogenic resonance there might be other intelligent beings in our local universe that are also preparing to seed the future with life.  Basically consciousness is a universal constant; we exist in an epiphenomenal, physical reality.  Matter is the crystallization of consciousness, which strives for more complex forms of information processing and in doing so a new reality blooms in its wake.  But for now, as the noosphere starts to awaken, we become synergized in our development into what Vernor Vinge calls the technological singularity;  that is a time where human consciousness and technology will combine propelling us into a new realm of enlightenment and liberation.  Like some self-fulfilling prophecy being played out for the strange attractor in our future, we project our consciousness with all its imaginations into what we call the Omega Point.