Good morning, Texas Songwriter!
I find all this rather surprising. I'm not aware of any public statements by Chardin that expressly declare this understanding. But then, I'm not a Chardin expert.
What I do know is that Chardin was a Jesuit priest and world-class paleontologist who, while working in China, participated in the discovery of Peking man. He was an evolutionist, but not a Darwinian. I gather the evolution that interested him was the cosmic evolution, culminating in a sort of "apotheosis" of consciousness (cosmic consciousness, not divine consciousness) at something he called the Omega Point. I never interpreted the Omega Point as referring to God's consciousness, which is not subject to evolution, being already perfect and eternal.
If indeed Chardin is a pantheist, I find it curious that Wolfhart Pannenberg -- an ordained Lutheran minister and Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Munich -- could devote an entire chapter to Chardin's thought in his excellent book, Toward a Theology of Nature, without once mentioning it.
One of Pannenberg's many interesting observations in this work is that the famous mathematician/philosopher Leibniz "accused" Isaac Newton of being a "pantheist," because of the latter's speculation about the existence of a sensorium Dei -- seemingly a sort of field-like "structure" by which the "Lord of Life [is] with His creatures" in a physical, not spiritual sense. The distinction between Lord and creation is completely maintained in this concept; and so I think Leibniz's charge of "pantheist!" does not hold water....
So perhaps what we have here is yet another example of the famous "observer problem": You evidently see something that I cannot confirm by my own observations. That's not to say I think you're "wrong"; it's only simply to say that I do not see it. I'd welcome further information.
Thank you so much for writing, Texas Songwriter!