Just Trust Life: A Journey with Teilhard de Chardin
by Christine M. Tracy
In this gritty memoir about tackling life’s challenges with the promise of transcendence, Tracy illustrates how seemingly chance encounters with Teilhard’s work catalyzed her emotional and spiritual expansion.
To read Just Trust Life is to receive a download of Teilhard’s mystical energy—his love as an evolutionary force. Yet this book is much more than a poetic and practical introduction to the life and teachings of this revered mystic.
Through finely tuned scenes from Tracy’s life, we learn what it means to be a “spiritual being having a human experience.” As Teilhard’s spirit accompanied her through struggles with addiction, infidelity, divorce, a house fire, and a near-death-experience, Tracy realizes that we are never alone—and we have the power to wake up.
With a powerful takeaway that belongs on every nightstand, readers of Tracy’s memoir will discover Teilhard’s promise: if one can “just trust life . . . life will bring you high.”
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“This book will stay with me for a very long time. It made me a better version of myself.”
—S. Michael Halloran, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“For those who want to live out their spirituality, Christine’s book will be an inspiration.”
—Steve McIntosh, JD, author of The Presence of the Infinite
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About Christine
My intention for writing the book has always been very clear to me: I wanted to understand my relationship to the guidance, life, and wisdom of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and how that understanding changed my life; I wanted to leave a legacy to my grandchildren—to have something lasting so they would better know who I am; and I wanted to share Teilhard’s mystical energy—capture it and give it voice—so others, readers, could also experience the power of this knowing.
Now it is time to launch this book and deliver this message to the world. To my knowledge, no one has ever done what I have—explained in specific detail through anecdotal scenes how the teachings and living example of Teilhard changed one life.
I am a writer, journalist, rhetorician, and Teilhardian scholar. Inspired by the “noosphere,” Teilhard’s word for collective thought energy, I coined the term “newsphere” and wrote The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment to explain the paradox of the current news environment. I believe the energy of the noosphere can enhance collective evolution and wrote The Mystic As Everyman to help readers connect their “insides with their outsides.”
I am a member of the Council of Scholar Advisors for The Teilhard Project and have published scholarly essays exploring Teilhard’s relationship to progressive disciplines, including media ecology and integral theory. I live in Boulder, Colorado, where I ski, swim, hike, and engage with progressive ideas and spiritual communities.
Photo by Barb Colombo
Book design by Raúl Peña