In ‘A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence’, held in the summer of 1956, it states:

The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined megasynthesis in French in Le phénomène humain, completed in 1940, but published posthumously in 1956. He introduced the word to denote a vision of all the divergent streams of evolution during its fourteen billion of years of development converging in a megasynthesis of everything, at evolution’s Omega Point.

In the Hegelian dialectical process, synthesis denoted a new and higher level of truth, resolving the conflict between thesis and antithesis.

In Buddhism, Samādhi denotes the sixth, seventh, and eighth steps in the Eightfold path, as ‘perfect effort’, ‘perfect mindfulness’ and ‘perfect concentration’. In Hinduism and Buddhism, Samādhi denotes ‘total absorption in the object of meditation’ and ‘a nondualistic state of consciousness in which the experience of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object’.

The root meaning of the verb sacrifice is ‘to make sacred or holy’, necessary to live sanely and healthily in union with the Divine, from which we are never separate.

However, we live in a sick society that teaches us that the Divine and human can never be unified, except in the figure of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet, all humans innately possess the exquisite power of Christ or Buddha Consciousness, even though the prevailing culture is not willing to admit this essential quality of being human.

When I look into the utmost depths of my being, at how the Universe comes into existence, I sense an amorphous mass of data emerging from the Datum of the Universe, as its Divine Origin. This omnipotent primal field has no limits and initially no form or structure, and is thus inseparable from the Datum.