You Matter

An Introduction
Who Was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin?
PART ONE: RETHINKING THINKING
1 Exploding into Life
2 What We Really Are
3 The Scale of Things
4 Small Wonder
5 The Unknown Phenomenon
6 The Mysterious Gift of Existence
7 Mind Inside Matter
8 Consciousness: The Central Mystery of Human Life?
9 Elusive Spirit
10 Spirituality Unmasked
11 A Personal Project
12 The Examined Life
13 Within You and Without You
14 Fortress Ego
15 As Yet Unresolved
16 Why Evolution?
17 Convergence: Evolution's U-Turn

PART TWO: NONE OF US IS AS SMART AS ALL OF US
18 The Evolution of a Person
19 A Sense of Species
20 Solidarity: The Hidden Adhesive
21 Finding the Centre
22 Turning Inwards
23 The Process of Becoming
24 The Evil Trap
25 The Fatal Error

PART THREE: THE HUMAN IS THE SOLUTION
26 The Solution
27 There's Only One You
28 Socialisation
29 Team World
30 Workers of the World
31 Covid-19: A Call to Arms
32 Covid-19: Some Reasons for Optimism
33 The Unnoticed Revolution
34 The Role of Suffering
35 Community: The Hidden Dynamic
36 Love: The Fundamental Impulse of Life

Thank Yous
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Author