'The Phenomena of Man' is an absolute masterpiece of prescient genius. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was like Friedrich Nietzsche, Shaw and Darwin, great thinkers generations ahead of their time. De Chardin joins the pantheon of intellectual visionaries with this revolutionary book that predicts humankind's eventual conscious evolutionary ascent toward universal consciousness, what he calls the "Omega Point". This is not a book for the average person, it requires intense study and research to comprehend in full. I must admit his Jesuit Christianity is hard to reconcile with his worldview of post human futurism, but his collective works are truly worthy of studying.