The Greek root of mania had a wide range of meanings, including ‘madness’, ‘insanity’, ‘enthusiasm’, ‘inspiration’, ‘passion’, and ‘prophecy’, indicating the many different ways in which Divine energies become manifest within humans. That is ‘what is’. None are to be condemned or admired.

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.

Omega denotes ‘end’, the glorious culmination of all convergent evolutionary processes in Wholeness, not at some point in the distant future, but right Now, beyond space and time. In The Human Phenomenon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin foresaw that evolution would reach its Omega Point when all its divergent streams converged in a megasynthesis of everything.