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In Reply to: Re: "Mind Control Made Easy" on YouTube posted by CB on February 18, 2007 at 20:22:06:
I just read the couple chapters that were abridged in that anthology. Challenging is an understatement. Once I read the critical reviews that followed I was relieved to know that my own criticisms were on the right track.
Teilhard starts off by writing in the preface: "If this book is to be properly understood, it must be read not as a work on metaphysics, still less as a sort of theological essay, but purely and simply as a scientific treatise." His critics, however, pointed out the several ways in which Teilhard did not follow scientific principles. Furthermore, the ultimate end of his theory leads to assimilation with what he calls the Omega point, which elsewhere he equated with God.
One of the reviewers, in attempting to understand why the publication of the book in 1955 caused such a stir, asked: "Why have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man?" He gave several reasons, but the one that applies to this conversation in regards to Peter's letter is most revealing: "It is written in an all but totally unintelligible style, and this is construed as prima facie evidence of profundity. ... It is because Teilhard has such wonderful deep thoughts that he's so difficult to follow -- really it's beyond my poor brain but doesn't that just show how profound and important it must be?"
Regarding Family publications, it really doesn't seem to matter if it is "written" by Berg, Maria, or Peter, the style is pretty much the same. The repetitive, superfluous style "... creates the illusion of content, and which is in some part the cause as well as merely the symptom of [Peter's] alarming apocalyptic seizures."
