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What a day for space science. The long speculated "Planet X" or 10th planet in the solar system has been discovered. It's at least 50% bigger than Pluto, and located out in the Kuiper Belt. I think as time goes on we will find dozens, perhaps hundreds of pluto-size objects out in the Kuiper Belt. For the future of space migration, the amount of raw materials and water out there is phenomonal. Speaking of water, shown below here is a hi-res photo of a frozen water lake on the surface of Mars. If there was ever any doubt about water on Mars before, there is none now.
For those attending Burning Man this year, here is a link to the lecture line up:
Lorenzo Hagerty is the organizer of this event. He has tons of stuff on his website, including many recordings (i.e podcasts) from such 'psychedelic celebrities' as Alex Grey and Terrence at the Psychedelic Salon.
Lorenzo also has his own blog.
I have long thought of parallel time dimensions. Since time is unique to our bubble universe, it only makes sense that other bubble universes with time would not run on the same clock as ours. From each others perspective, there could be no time at all, or even time running in the opposite direction. Further, its quite possible that within our universe, or at least accessible from our universe are an infinite number of other dimensions of space, time and god-knows-what.
From India Times, by way of Bird on the Moon.
In the physical universe, the concept of time is always positive. However there are simultaneous parallel time dimensions within the physical universes. Every physical universe is associated with one time dimension and innumerable parallel time dimensions. The concept of time is always starts at zero – the time of the big bang in the physical universe.
But according to researchers in contemporary physics, the parallel universes have the concept of no time dimension and time can become negative in that environment. The time dimension that allows time as negative value makes strange things happen. One can literally fabricate the future in that environment from the past and them come to the present. A spatial with no time concept built in is not a point of singularity.
What really happens in the parallel universe, the lack of time as a dimension or presence of time dimension that allows negative time makes living through that environment very different form the physical universe. Space becomes finite and time becomes non-existent or retraceable factor. Like we can walk around in the physical universe from point A to point B, in the parallel universe, it is possible to walk from one time to the next time. Even it is possible to travel to negative reference value in time.
The best way the negative time factor or value can be expressed is when an entity crosses the physical universe to a parallel universe through a specific wormhole. The moment the point of singularity is crossed, the entity enters the time zone marked as negative in physical universe and null or non-existent in the parallel universe.
Multidimensional time can also span across the physical and parallel universes. That is the reason why mind regression tests and experiments show very strange results. The minds and souls can travel from one time dimension to the other and while do so sometimes they fall into parallel universes of higher dimensions. At that point of time, the mind regression experiment looses its touch with the soul telling all these. As minds regress multiple time dimension spanning across physical and parallel universes, the experiments show gaps. This is because no one can regress into a parallel universe from the existence in a physical universe. It is similar to trying finding air in the vacuum. All that you can do is experience the emptiness or lack of anything from the side of the physical universe.
(A final excerpt from my current work-in-progress. I’m currently rethinking the title as well as the format. The last section here (#61) is intended to be the conclusion.)
Indeed, each and every man and woman senses himself or herself as the central hub of the wheeling Universe, the sole vessel of conscious awareness, and thereby intuits the interior Self as a mystery deeper than and distinct from the external individuality of body, something apart from the localized aggregate of senses, experiences, and thoughts.
A Noumenon that could all the same inhabit another systemic individuality, characterized by other memories, other feelings, other thoughts.
In short, another body entirely, another locus of being. Another person altogether.
always I;
all who throughout time
say I
are in fact
I.”
Thus, in all actuality, there is no real difference between the death of one “I” and the birth of another “I,” between my conscious Self and the Self inhabiting you.
It is simply One Conscious Self taking infinitely many different points of view.
The cosmic Self manifests the individual “I” by identifying itself with a particular viewpoint, and continues to perpetuate our personal identity by synergizing that nodal viewpoint with the objects, entities and events within the scalar scope of our particular point of view.
That is to say -- the consciousness I call “I” is nothing more or less than this brief sensation of blue sky, this fleeting impression of sunlight, this pithy sentiment of inner peace.
What I call “myself” is an eye of the Self, an opening through which Ultimate Reality takes the viewpoint of the infinitesimal from within the living matrix of the Infinite.
Our personal sense of identity, of being conscious of a singular “I,” alive and co-present with the highest star and the meanest mite, is merely the integrated sensitivity of a particular set and process of cognitive noesis.
The only real underlying difference between one individual and another lies in the depth of consciousness bodily exhibited by each.
Each point of view, each node of conscious awareness has its own spectrum of color, its own brightness and depth, its own gradation of light and dark -- and so it is in this manner (and in this manner alone) that each man and woman varies and is distinct from one another.
For each of us, however, this self is qualified and colored with unique memories and personal characteristics -- the experienced contents of consciousness -- culled from our individual lifespan.
-- But this self, our own personal sense of “I-ness,” is, in all actuality, a local, objectified manifestation of the very signal being cosmically transmitted and transceived by our communal Oneness.
The pure macrocosmic Self, the Supreme Individual, our own little personal “I” stripped of all its individual characteristics, is itself the vitalizing faculty of Consciousness common to all created beings.
Our lesser selfhood -- our own little ego-encrusted personhood of conscious activity – is but a ‘written record’ of the interference pattern of light and darkness present in a particular locus of Spacetime.
We are as vortices through which the Totality of existence flows, localized intensifications of the ubiquitous cosmic drift, diverse abstractions of the unbroken Wholeness enfolded implicitly in the heart of every atom.
We are indeed one and the same “I” looking out through billions of differently colored eyes.
There is truly no break in the continuity between my “I” and your “I.”
Each and every one of us are similar but unique expressions of this singular Soul -- similar because we all serve a homogenous function in the phenomenal world, unique because of our own individual noetic engagement with Space and Time.
-- This opening through which shines the eyeful of Light I call “I” is intrinsically no different from the rift through which flashes the handful of Light you call “You.”
But the Light is One.
Our shining is One Shining.
It is the same in all peoples, all creatures, in all conscious entities throughout the cosmos.
It is the inner Light of Being itself.
This is the mukti of the Vedic psychonauts -- the transfer of one’s pattern integrity to a wholly transcendental plane of Being -- the uploading of one’s personal selfhood into a solid-state Hypersphere beamed consciously and purposefully to elsewhere in the starry Multiverse.
Our integral sense of personal identity shall not dissipate and fade to black, but shall be hugely expanded and augmented by the communal inclusion of all our ‘other selves.’
In the deepness of Space and Time there shall be no break in the continuity between our separable nodes of selfhood and the emerging One Self of our collective interplanetary Consciousness.
What began as an implicate order tightly knotted into the subquantum fabric of reality will end as a fully explicate architecture of dazzling supernatural complexity, an interplanetary flowering into Deity.
Our most ancient visions of Paradise will prove not to be a brief utopia of the past, but rather the long-lasting ecology of the deep and endless future.
Rather, our bravest and most imaginative dreams shall be made fully manifest through the discoveries and inventions of tomorrow, and shall in time populate the heavens from one corner of the cosmos to the other.
it is a progressive conquest of the Divine
by the Divine
for the Divine
on its way to becoming
the endless more that we must be.”
The more fulfilled the project of Consciousness, the more perfect and fulfilled each and every one of us will become.
(Once again, a further excerpt from my current work-in-progress, currently titled 'The Fifth Element, or The Omnidirectional Waveform of Consciousness:')
44
As individuals, we are modes
or modifications of one ultimate Reality,
nodes of the infinite Consciousness of God,
a localized expression of the starry Multiverse.
All men and women are
“children of immortality” ***
-- we are each a shining node of the Eternal
the same as waves are nodes of the rolling ocean.
But the indwelling presence of our communal Spirit
smolders also with an urge
for overstepping the personal boundaries of the self,
an entrance into a collective hybridization
of Spirit and Matter.
“As the Soul is present in all persons,
so it is in every period of life.
It is adult already in the infant man.” ****
God is thus entirely immanent in us,
yet awaits His full transcendent flowering
in a transhumanity yet to come.
45
The expanding interiorization of humankind
via the rapidly emerging telesphere
continues to accentuate
and will inevitably exteriorize
the communal Consciousness
long sensed dimly
but as yet never fully explicated or explored.
“Man is now the agent of evolution,
whether he knows it or not;
but he will perform his role better
if he is a conscious agent.”
The many millions of men and women,
themselves products of the evolution of Consciousness,
are now poised to become active participants
in the continuing unfoldment of creation.
“Man’s role is to be
the instrument of the evolutionary process
on this planet,
the sole agent capable
of effecting major advances
and of realizing new possibilities for evolving life.” *****
It is not only in man
that the forward movement of evolution
is now carried on,
but also by man.
It is man who must invent
and discover the future,
and whose imaginal creations will in turn
take into their own hands
the future direction of the world
and gradually replace the blind impetus of nature
with the active and progressive realization
of the eternal life
of an Infinite Spirit.
46
As the earthly sustainability of the race continues to wane,
the future development of the human species will be aimed
both further out into space
and inwards into the hidden depths of the mind
-- and ultimately to the Divine Source
of both the inner and outer reaches
of our endless voyaging.
It is here that we shall at last discover
our implicate communal Oneness,
and henceforth integrate our cosmic introspections
into the rounds of our daily waking life,
both singular and collective.
No one will any longer hold the outmoded belief
in a ‘personal soul’
needful of any intervening salvation.
Sacramentalizing even the most base and common in life,
each and every event of our waking and sleeping lives
will become a means whereby
enlightenment can be reached
and actively realized.
Everything that can and will be invented
or implemented for the betterment
of our forward collective progress
shall be deemed fair and just,
so long as it contributes
to the communal human Spirit’s
ever-advancing mastery of Matter.
-- For our being human
is nothing more than being
the willing and able participant
of our shared communal Oversoul
in the here and now
of the phenomenal waking world.
47
Consciousness is indeed
the communal Spirit within us
-- the one and only Spirit,
the anima mundi, the World Soul,
the great Heraclitean conflagration
shrugging off the innumerable golden sparks
that we are --
and it is in the image and likeness
of this Spirit
that we shall indefinitely persist
in redefining what it means
to be human.
Our possibilities will continue to broaden
as our experience of the universe continues
to deepen and richen.
Recognizing each and every man,
woman and child on this earth
as an integral aspect of
our One and only Self,
and all aspects of human life as sacred,
promoting the betterment of earthly existence for all
will become the prime spiritual objective of the age.
48
On and on flows the rising wave of Consciousness,
running through countless human generations,
subdividing itself over and over again
into individuals who (like little rills)
pour back into the great river of Life itself,
simultaneously interweaving and dissolving
in the rippling outflow of the cosmological flux.
All in all,
the body of Humanity holds together,
and all yield to the same tremendous push –
the God-urge welling up
through our fleshly flower
to shape the roundness
of the future perfect fruit.
If the Deity itself dwells
at the heart and core of the atom,
if everything is God
and every least scintilla of matter deomorphic,
then Humankind
is the Cosmic Child
in embryo.
In the words of Sri Aurobindo Ghose:
"Man is a transitional being;
he is not final;
for in him and high beyond him
ascend the radiant degrees which climb
to a divine supermanhood.” ******
Humanity is an unfinished model,
a prototype of better,
more conscious and cosmic,
things to come.
_______________________________________
*** Svetasvara Upanishad, 2:5.
**** Emerson, The Oversoul.
***** Julian Huxley, New Bottles for New Wine.
****** Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Man and the Supermind.
******************************(to be continued ...)
Psymbiote
Adorned in titanium, latex, silicone, and electronic apparatus, isa/Psymbiote places herself in the eye of the storm: the conceptual terrain at the collision of bodies and machines, the mutation of her own identity through transformation of the body. Ultimately the project seeks to fully transform the artist into a seductively organic yet entirely unfamiliar hybrid organism, a human/machine chimera with fully integrated control systems. The costume is being animated with movement, sound, and light; activated by manual triggers, automatic body processes, and remote control. As her evolution progresses, Psymbiote appears in public spaces to stimulate dialogue regarding the future of technological enhancements to the human body. She has already been sighted at a number of universities, art shows, international conferences, and as host of the SIGGRAPH CyberFashion Show. The Psymbiote Project brings issues raised by the ongoing redefinition of our bodies into a public forum, highlighting some of the contemporary critical discourse surrounding cyborgs and all forms of human/technology integration.
Wow, thanks again to Eye of Gaia, I just stumbled on this:
42 hours of recorindgs, both audio and vido, as well as all of it having been painstakingly transcribed and made available on the web. What a blessing!
What really sucks about these recordings however is they appear to have been DRM'd on Real Media (.rm). I'm uncertain why they would go through so much trouble to get it out on the net for free, then keep it from replicating freely without DRM. What gives?
If anyone knows how to rip Real Media to some non-DRM format, please comment below.
From PopSci:
"Designed as an exterior skin that would be stretched taut over an aluminum frame, like nylon over tent poles, SmartWrap consists of two layers of a polyester film called PET—the same clear plastic used in soda bottles. The idea is to use the thin, flexible film as a substrate onto which micro-components for lighting, heating, energy storage and even information display can be printed, like ink on paper. The result will be electronic walls that are inexpensive and infinitely customizable both at the manufacturing stage and at home, so that you could, for instance, program one side of the living room to be a built-in movie screen or turn an entire side of the house into a window at the flick of a switch."
via Eye of Gaia
Article recently: New model 'permits time travel'. Researchers are trying to find models for time travel that avoid the good old paradox, of what would happen if you went back in time and stopped your grandfather from meeting your grandmother, or you killed your dad before you were conceived. Which would make it sort of impossible that you're still there, then. So, it has been used to sort of prove that time travel is impossible. Now, these new thoughts don't sound terribly much better. Even scientists have a hard time wrapping their mind around time. So, let me help them out a little bit. Here's how I think it works.
Time is a dimension, just like the 3 dimensions of space. There probably are more dimensions. String theory seems to predict something like 12 dimensions. So there's most likely more directions to move in than the 4 of spacetime. But there certainly are those.
Despite time being just another dimension, we seem to be wired to perceive it as a one-directional stream. Something happens, and then it gets frozen in the past, as the history that leads to this point. And the future hasn't happened yet. So, both the past and the future seem equally inaccessible to us. But that's really just the fault of our perceptual wiring. Doesn't actually have much to do with Reality with a big R, the stuff that's really there. It is just the reality that we construct from our perceptions, and our abstract conclusions about those perceptions, which keeps time in that format.
However, we can learn something about time as a dimension by studying the dimensions of space, which we perceive ourselves moving more freely in.
Let's say I'm standing on the town hall square, and then I walk down to the train station. I can remember that I was at the town hall square. Now, if I walk back to the town hall square, will I catch myself standing there? No, of course not. Not even if I do it really quickly. That's logical for us in space. But really it isn't all that different with time.
Our lives are objects in 4 dimensions, at least. Even if you take just your body. It has length, width, breath, and it has an extension in time. It extends backwards in time from where you are now, and forward in time to its death. All of that sort of sticks together. It might change in various ways, but it does have a certain coherence.
Let's take a mobile item with some spatial size, like a bus. It might be 15 meters long, but it sticks together. If the front end moves, the back end moves with it. Whatever influences the front has an influence on the back, and vice versa. It won't be entirely the same, but it will be connected. If the front end stands in the sun, the back end will get warmer too, even if it doesn't. If somebody puts a sign on the front, saying that now this is a school bus, then the meaning of the back will suddenly change too, even if nothing else changed about it. Your life is kind of like that too.
Good actors will prepare for much more than the role they're asked to play. They will sit and write down what they think the past history is of this character. They will construct events in his or her life that might have made him what he is. They will construct emotions from past experiences. They will decide where he's going, what he wants to do, and why. And that creates a much more full character in the present.
The past is where you're coming from - the path and experiences that add up to who you are now. The future is where you're headed - the path and the experiences you'll go through if you continue as you are now, and with the history you've had. In principle both that past and that future are changeable. If you suddenly change, you'll need a different past history to explain it, and you'll suddenly be pointing towards a different future.
But it is difficult to suddenly change, because there's a lot of inertia in all this stuff. There's a considerable weight in your past history. It adds up quite convincingly to explain who you are now. The most likely way of changing it is to re-interpret it, and get a different meaning out of it. But it would also just have to change, if you really change.
All of it is quantum probabilities, so it is really a lot more moldable than what a 10ton bus seems like to us. It seems so solid. But really it is all the holodeck. It can be whatever you want it to be. We just have so much invested in all the stuff we've observed and what we've concluded it is, so it is very hard to just change it arbitrarily, and observe something else. But there's nothing that makes it impossible.
Anyway, back to time travel. My life is like this bus that is moving. It sticks together, but it sometimes changes. The lives of everybody connected to me are also all intertwined.
So, let's say I go back in time with the intention to meet my dad, and stop him from meeting my mom. But the problem is that they're part of the back end of my bus. If I move, they move with me. They're not standing back at the bus depot any more, because the bus moved on. Just like I'm not standing back at the town hall square when I go and check. Because I moved. Duh.
In part because of our language, we often make the mistake of assuming that a place is the same, even as time changes, or other things change. You know, this is my office, and I can talk about my office yesterday, or last year, and in my mind I tend to think it is the same office. I believe it is the Hopi that have a language that doesn't do that. My office yesterday is not "here", it is "over there". Over there in yesterday. And they probably have a point. It isn't the same office. It looks a good deal like it, but it is different, the time is different, and a lot of the sub-atomic particles are probably different. We short-circuit our logic when we fall for the misconception that places and times are "the same" when they really aren't.
So, if I go back to where my father met my mother. Well, we could say that they no longer are there, because they moved on, got married, got me, etc. So, if there's only one of each of them, they're no longer there. The bus left. If you wanted to change things, you've have to catch up with the bus where it is.
Or, are they still there? See, that gets us into the more fantastic subject of parallel realities and multiple versions of ourselves. The funny thing is that most people intuitively would expect that if time travel were possible, they would go back and find exactly what "was there". I.e. your dad and mum exactly as they were, ready to have their first kiss at the drive-in, playing "Rebel without a Cause". But that requires that we keep existing at all times and places we've been. That there are a zillion you's stretching far back, and probably forward.
That's entirely possible, that it works like that. That the past isn't just a memory in your brain, but it is real, it is there, it is alive.
So, let's say they still are there. They're, however, also still connected with you, as part of a probable past that let to you being born. And, incidentally, to you getting around to go back in time at some stage in your life. It is all connected. Not two separate events, you and them. Rather, part of one bigger spacetime event.
One possibility is that you might find that the past event has already changed from what you thought it was. The later events in their and your lives might have redefined what really happened. Maybe the original event was a happy kiss in the drive-in. But later on they got divorced and got therapy and decided it all was different. Like, he was really a brute who raped her. So maybe that's what you'd see if you went back. Because the whole gestalt is connected backwards and forwards.
But then we have to touch on the possibility of what happens if the past changes.
We're talking about objects in 4 or more dimensions. A bit like the screenplay of a movie. It is all connected, the characters, the timeline, the events, the climax. If we change one part, we'd have to change others. If we rewrite the script a little bit, and make the main characters meet in Paris rather than in Rome, then a bunch of things will change. Their kids will speak French rather than Italian, etc. If you had already shot the movie in the first version, then the next version will be a different movie, even if the story is similar on many points, and some of the characters are roughly the same, and even if it has the same name.
Quantum physics seem to say that things exist if somebody has perceived them in a particular way. If they haven't been perceived, it is uncertain what is there. Could me many things, but the reality hasn't been frozen. So, if nobody was there to hear it, we don't know if the tree fell in the forest and made a sound. We don't know if Schroedinger's cat is alive or dead, unless we look.
So, my past is a certain way because I perceive it to be so. Not really that I *have* perceived it that way. More that I'm doing it now. If I stop perceiving it, it might go back to uncertainty. Or if I succeed in perceiving it differently, it becomes something different.
You'll notice that science skips rather quickly over the mystery of who it is who perceives things, as consciousness isn't a popular subject for people in the material sciences. So they usually just talk about "measuring", rather than awareness or consciousness. But it is unavoidable. Things are real when there's somebody there who perceives them. It would all become a little more logical if we accepted that there were such a thing as consciousness, and that it probably is extremely basic to how the universe works.
Now, what if you get to a fork in the road in your life? You might go left, you might go right. Your life develops differently, depending on which one you pick. Before you make the choice, the two possible futures are maybe equally probable. Once you make the choice, your future falls into a certain groove, and that choice becomes part of your past that explains how you got to where you are.
But how about if you also took the other road from the fork? No, not the you who's here today, who went left. But there's maybe a parallel aspect of you who took the path on the right, and went on from there. There might or might not be. Depends on whether anybody's there to experience it. If there were a consciousness which found the right side path interesting, it might have turned from the realm of uncertainty into a reality.
In your life there has been many forks in many roads. Possibly many or all of those turned into realities. One of which is the one you're sitting in now. They're related, at least by their common branching points, but they're otherwise different. The Flemming who decided to move to Rio and be a street performer would clearly be a different character than me, even though we might have a lot in common, and part of our history would be exactly the same.
So, back to those time paradoxes. If you try to go back and meet your mom and dad, before they conceived of you, then several things might happen. If you focus on the path that is part of your past, you'll probably find difficulty in trying to interfere. That's not as mysterious as it might sound. It is a bit like trying to spin around to see oneself from the back. No matter how fast I do it, I'll miss, because my back moves at the same time as the front. So, the same with the characters in your past. You might be surprised to find that they just walked out before you walked in. Because they're connected with you.
The difficulty of doing so depends a bit on how long the tail is. You can't see yourself from the back by spinning around. But if you were a snake, you could grab your own tail, because there's enough dimension there. The front of the bus can't see the back, but a litte train with many wagons maybe could. So, in time travel, you might have trouble getting to meet a recent version of yourself. But if you go far enough back, it isn't so hard. So, maybe it is not any great problem to go back and meet your parents.
But remember that there's a considerable inertia towards them doing roughly what they did, because there's already a well-perceived future reality in front of them, which they're connected with. There's a certain pull in that.
But maybe if you exert enough energy, you might make something else happen. You manage to throw a Molotov cocktail into their car, and they burn to death. Then what happens? Really just that you created a fork. Your parents would still have met in that drive-in, and you don't suddenly disappear. But there's now another timestream which develops differently. It will include a few hundred people for whom the mysterious tragedy in the drive-in in '62 happened, with the stranger who blew up a young couple, who claimed he was from the future, and was carrying strange electronic devices in his pocket. And that reality develops differently from the one you knew, in small or big ways. Might be huge, with time travel technology being then discovered in 1962, from somebody studying what you had in your pockets, or it might just be a minor ripple, and it becomes a world very similar to ours, just without your parents, but with you as an older criminal. And back here in our reality, we'll wonder why you never came back, but everything will otherwise continue as normal.
So, there is no paradox. There are just potential paths, and actual paths taken. Sometimes multiple parallel paths might be taken. Sometimes you might go back and take a different path. None of which changes that all of the paths, that somebody perceived themselves taking, were real.
Back to one little detail. That article mentioned that of course we aren't seeing any people who suddenly disappear because their past changed, so obviously that isn't happening. I wouldn't be so fast on that. OK, forks might happen in the past that lead to different realities. But this reality might also change. It is just that everything in it is connected and relatively consistent with each other. Remember, it is a 4 or more dimensional "object". So, if somebody succeeds in changing something about it, everything connected to it changes. Like, the whole history of why things are the way they are, and everybody's memories of what happened, which explains things. And that is probably hard, because there's a lot of inertia, and a whole lot of things to change. But probably possible, if enough energy is exerted. So if your neighbor across the street got written out of the story, it wouldn't be that his house suddenly, poof, evaporates, and everybody stands there wondering what happened to him. No, you'd be quite sure that there had never been a house on that lot, and you'd have no recollection of anybody with that name, and it would all be very logical, and everybody could confirm each other's stories. I'd say that stuff like that probably happens once in a while, but you most likely wouldn't have noticed, except for maybe an odd feeling that something was off, which you couldn't put your finger on. If you rely only on your perceptions and your memories, nothing would reveal that anything changed, because they would have changed at the same time.
I have little doubt that we'll figure it all out eventually, and that there's somebody somewhere who already can travel freely in time and space. See, it doesn't matter if it takes a million years to develop the technology, because that's just "right over there" in spacetime. And it is probably unavoidable that the spacetime multiverse becomes one big subway system, if it isn't already.
I'm currently about half-way through polishing up version 1.0 of 'The Fifth Element.' What follows are additional excerpts from that first half:
27
Individuality,
or the unique identity
of a particular mode of matter,
is neither a faculty of the meaty flesh
nor the spiritual substance
of an immaterial soul.
(The psychophysical ‘ego’ is itself
but a memory-encrusted distortion
of the inherently translucent locus.)
Individuality can be recognized only
by perceived continuity of pattern,
personhood by the distinctive inscape
localized by the cybernetic feedback loop
of matter and mind.
“The individuality of the body
is that of a flame
rather than that of a stone,is that of a form
rather than that
of a bit of substance.” ***
All in all,
human neurobiology is
a noosynaptic apparatus
that transceives the incoming waveform
of the simulcasted Cosmic Mind
into the manifest images,
sounds, and sensations
of the material world.
___________________
*** Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings.
28
The whole content
of personal consciousness
is
the “I.”
The “I”
is synonymous with
the collected fragments of the world
locally transceived out of the holographic flux
by the individual’s noosynaptic neurochemistry.
Without the unfolding ingression
of the cosmogenetic Wave
the machinery of the mind would lie dormant,
the senses unresponsive,
the body unanimated.
Dissolved by death,
the apparatus fails indeed;
but the animating spark
of conscious activity
that formerly sustained the material body
in its brief semblance of personhood
rushes onward and outward
in its original pristine radiance,
a momentary flash of explicate light
winking out
in the dark dazzle of the implicate Beyond.
-- Thus, there can be no soul
peculiar to each individual node,
but only a personal modulation
of the communal Soul
shared equally by all.
An individual is separated
from his or her fellows
only by the characteristic phase-modulation
that distinguishes his or her spatial-temporal embodiment,
and its continuance as a recognizable pattern.
....................................
35
The evolution of matter
is the gradual building up
by growing complexity
of the primary atomic elements,
arranging itself in particle groupings
of ever-greater volume
into organisms ever more highly organized
and ‘consciousness-ready.’
The whole history of physical
and chemical life on earth
has been, in effect,
the effort of Consciousness
to ‘raise up’ Matter
-- to create in Matter
a supracognitive machine
that would in time triumph
over the mere mechanism
of genetic phylogenesis.
-- And that machine is
Humankind.
“Man is nothing butEvolution is thus the progressive unveiling
evolution become conscious
of itself.” ****
It is the joyful outpouring
of the creative urge of Being;
it is the slow but gradual objectification
of the Divine Spark
that lies submerged and involved
within us all.
“As there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads
and the infinite heavens,
so is there no bar or wall in the Soul
where man, the effect, ceases,
and God, the cause, begins.” *****
36
In this light, material evolution
may be rightly regarded as the advancement
of ever more complex
and ever more ‘consciousness-ready’
prototypes of the One Consciousness.
"If God is here,
everyone is here:
if God is not here,
no one is here." ******
In humankind,
that hint of individuality
is further augmented and expanded
through one’s formative years
into a noosynaptic web of selfhood.
This is the inception
of an individual pattern identity,
one’s own characteristic augmentation
of the omnipresent Waveform.
Our own particular self-identity
is our unique interface with material reality.
Being a particular modulation
localized in a particular place and time,
we are more or less identifiable
by the particular patterns of memory
and psychological association
with which we qualify
our own little cupful
of the omnipresent Ocean.
37
Thus it is that
the Oversoul of the starry cosmos
inhabits each and every one of us the same,
but is uniquely and unequivocally manifest
through each of us individually
according to the particular noosynaptic structure
of our perceptual physiology.
As the cyberneticist intuited –
“We are not stuff that abides,
but patterns that perpetuate themselves;
whirlpools of water
in an ever-flowing river.” *******
Our own personal sluice
grants a unqiue shape
to the out-flowing egress --
and that particular shape and flow
is what we are,
our psyche,
our destiny,
our innermost sense of self.
38
Human neurobiology is
the filter that regulates
the shape and constancy of
our psychokinetic flow.
And should our flesh be
someday re-imagned
by nano-artisans in silicon,
the omniversal flow shall pour through
our little sluice once more
-- and we shall find ourselves
duly resurrected.
Personal immortality can be therefore assured
only by the continuance
of one’s noosynaptic embodiment,
or its translated perpetuation
in a more evolved substrate.
Eternal Life is a rudimentary attribute
of our inhabiting Soul.
Personal immortality (on the other hand)
is solely dependent upon
the sustainable association
of one’s own unique
psychokinetic locus
of flow.
______________
**** Julian Huxley, New Bottles for New Wine.
***** Emerson, The Oversoul.
****** Rabbi Hillel, attributed.
******* Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings.
******************************************(to be continued .......)
8
A universal invarible more elementary
than the duality of particle and field,
the nonlocal Waveform of Consciousness
is everywhere winding
through the intergalactic abyss,
its entangled undercurrents
coalescing here and there
into pinwheels of atomic nuclei,
wildly winding and whirpooling and concrescing
into the spatial-temporal tide-foam
of organized Matter.
Beyond the splitting of subatomic quanta
(where particulate reality collapses
into omnidirectional swells of energy)
this subquantum Vitality
surrounds and permeates all creation
in an etheric sheen
that warps and weaves its way
through the spinning heart
of every atom in the cosmos.
Thus it may be said that
the rolling breakers of the Spacetime continuum
are indeed but transient ripples and eddies
upon a tranquil Sea
of self-reflexive hyperkinetic
Consciousness.
9
This deific Sea of Consciousness
is to be undertstood as
a multidimensional implicate order,
a totalizing Oneness
upon whose mirror-like façade
the rippling of interference patterns
coalesces into more or less recurrent,
relatively stable and momentarily seperable
projections of an explicate world
of manifest Matter.
The plurality of mind and matter
we cognize as living Reality
is merely the ephemeral shape appropriated by
the nth-dimensional flux of Consicousness
when compressed into a substrate
of limited dimesionality.
What we ourselves transceive through the senses
as contouring space and tethering time
is (in all actuality)
this etheric Plenum itself,
the emergent Ground out of which
all living things germinate and blossom
and into which they must ultimately
dissolve and vanish
like an iceberg melted
into an abstract rippling of water.
All created things therefore
are the fruits of an upwelling overabundance,
the micrcosmic progeny of a supracosmic womb
-- abstract ripplings on a reflective pool
by a chance wind of fate
blown free from the immaterial dark
and concretized
by the variegated light
of Matter’s materializing matrix.
10
On the surface of Matter we find
nerve fibers and ganglions;
but there is a soul under the skin,
and deeper still
a communal Consciousness,
an Oversoul,
a Psyche co-extensive
with the cosmos itself.
This Consciousness exists equally in all beings,
inanimate as well as animate,
rocks and flowers and trees
as well as birds and beasts and men.
“At the heart of all
-- whatever there is
in the universe --
abides the Self.” *
All created beings are, in essence,
a spatial-temporal coalescence of energy
in the pulsating cosmic Urgrund
that underlies and sustains
and vivifies all creation.
Created beings differ enormously, however,
in the extent to which this vitalizing faculty,
present in all,
has come to be realized
-- to be knowingly manifested
for what it really is.
11
That this gradual revealing
of vital Consciousness
is synonymous with
the measurable degrees of complexity
exhibited by evolutionary biology
is a notion that the anonymous rishi
who authored the Artareya Upanishad
was well acquainted with:
“He who knows how the Self
gradually unfolds within him …
sees herbs and trees and animals,
and knows that in them too
the Self is gradually revealed.
Among animals, moreover,
it can be seen that
the Self is manifested little by little.
… And especially in man
the Self by degrees unfolds itself
-- for man of all beings
is most endowed
with consciousness.” **
Or, as Emerson rightfully intuited:
“We see the world piece by piece,
as the sun, the moon,
the animal, the tree;
but the whole,
of which these are the shining parts,
is the Soul.” ***
12
The progressively unfolding Self of the Upanishads
is indeed none other than
the ontological underwiring
by which and through which
every one of us are intimately involved
with the living totality of the cosmos
at each and every moment
-- the gossamer threadwork by which
the entirety of the universe
is at every moment
fully involved in
and revealed through each
and every single part.
It is the Kingdom of Heaven in our midst,
the gift of Eternity already present in our lives,
inscape of rainbow rivers and opal skies,
the unfolding-enfolding holomovement
of the Nonwhere within.
In truth, it is
the One Consciousness
of which we all partake
-- a communal, interplanetary Consciousness
that incarnates billions and billions of times over
in an inexhaustible inflow
of continuous creation.
_______________________
* Isa Upanishad, 1.
** Aratreya Upanishad, 2:3:2:1-4.
*** Emerson, The Oversoul
************************************(to be continued ...)
Over the last few months I have been wanting to re-contextualize Future Hi beyond its psychedelic roots. I don't want to water it down any, only redefine with a context that embraces a radically "high" future where psychedelics are more clearly a part of rather than the core of the site. What specifically do I have in mind. First would be to take the 'Celebrating the rebirth of psychedlic futurism' off and replace it with something else, but that still captures the higher levels of consciousness-vibe. Does anyone have any suggestions?
As for the content, everything will remain, but I would like to see an increased emphasis on expanding the non-psychedelic portions of the site (i.e spaceship earth, alternative energy and sustainability, community building, dreaming and psi, hedonics and paradise engineering, immortality, the cosmic frontier, other forms of I squared and consciousness expansion, transhumanism, and increasing coverage of new paradigms beyond materialism and reductionism.
Four artists collaboratively produce large-scale sculptural installation through science fiction-inspired “Communal Consciousness”
+ Exhibition opens Wednesday 29 June from 7 - 9 pm
+ Exhibition runs Wednesday 29 June – Sunday 4 September 2005
+ The Minded Swarm science fiction reading group – Friday 15 July at 7 pm
PRESS CONTACT – Matt Lipps 323-957-1777 x.17
Los Angeles, 1 June 2005 – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is pleased to announce The Minded Swarm, a collaborative, large-scale sculptural installation organized by Karl Erickson with Consulting Curator Irene Tsatsos. Science fiction (SF) enthusiasts and artists Andy Alexander, Kathleen Johnson, Jennifer Lane, and Halsey Rodman are attracted to the genre’s social and political models, and its exploration of the human condition. The artists have met for some years in a science fiction reading group, absorbing SF’s mode of fantastic speculation into their own practice. Assuming the model of a Gestalt Organism (Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human, Vintage, 1998.) where individual capacities merge to create a single distributed intelligence, the artists have enacted a state-change, adopting a communal consciousness (Olaf Stapledon, Starmaker, Wesleyan University Press, 2004 (1937), p. 271.) as a means of artistic production. Their resulting environment will comprise two zones or microclimates—the Zone of Encounter, a transitional domestic interior, and the Zone of the Superstructure, an unstable architectural form seemingly in flux and embodying the amorphous spirit of the Utility Fog ( Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Penguin Putnam, NY, 2000, p. 145.). The work reflects both the utopian, speculative impulses of SF and a celebration of the everyday reality of the existing built world. As these four superpowers merged, the subsequent hive mind has harnessed group energy to address the psychological, psychosexual, phenomenological and formal properties of materials and built form, both real and imagined.
As part of The Minded Swarm, the artists invite the public to join them for their regular July book club meeting. They have chosen Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan and invite all interested parties to read the book and join them for the discussion on July 15 at 7:30 pm in the LACE galleries. The artists will also publish the list of books the club has read to date on LACE's website, www.artleak.org.
or,
The Omnidirectional Waveform of Consciousness
1.
At the subquantum root of Matter
sprawls the indivisible omniversal flux
of pure unqualified
Consciousness.
It is the omnipresent
Alpha and Omega
of all processes and all activity in the cosmos;
its energetic verve powers
the spin of the smallest electron
and the revolution of the vastest stars.
The ontological wholeness of Reality
is never static or complete,
but abides in this unending process
of undulating flux
and gradual unfoldment,
this unbroken momentum
of undivided flow.
This fiery Heraclitean flux is
the cosmological process of becoming itself,
while all the objects, entities, and events
of the phenomenal universe
are (more or less) evanescent,
momentarily concrete forms
abstracted from this undulating process.
2.
Like a flowing stream
(whose rippled surface
from moment to moment
is never quite the same)
the manifold phenomena of Life abides
as an ever-changing pattern
of vortices and ripples,
having no independent, separable existence
outside of the restless movement
of the gushing current itself.
There is a drift
in the stream of our abstract
daylight consciousness
the same as a surge
in the fleshy stream of our concrete
bodily matter.
The abstract objects of consciousness
are not divisible or separable
from the concrete reality to which they refer,
but are rather co-present
via hyperlinks in the holomovement
that unfolds moment by moment
and in the next moment enfolds
in the incoming and outgoing tides
of the aeonic flux.
(Which is a long way of saying that,
at the most fundamental stratum of reality
(and in the deepest sense of the word)
mind and matter
are implicitly
One.)
3.
The phenomenal Universe as a whole
is a transcendent Object
abstracted from the flowing movement
of a ubiquitous Waveform,
a unified Organism whose every aspect
is cyclically arising and vanishing
in the total process of the flow.
This universal, Quintessential flux
cannot be defined or explored explicitly,
but can be known only implicitly,
as evidenced and indicated
by the explicitly definable shapes and forms
that momentarily beach themselves
where the flow of the cosmic Quintessence
bifurcates into the shifting seas and sands
of mind and matter.
4.
The streaming life of Matter
– a tapestry woven of atomic nuclei
divisible into elementary particles
that are further divisible
into rogue quanta –
is in essence an abstraction
from an unknown and indivisible Totality of movement
best defined as
an implicate Urgrund
of bottomless potentiality.
This subquantum stratum is
the Ontological Continuum
by which and through which
each and every created being
assumes an idiosyncratic identity:
the sentient current that undergirds Spacetime
with a dazzlingly complex informational architecture:
the pure signal from an extradimensional Omniverse
that is continually beaming our Universe
into manifest existence.
It is the vitalizing Quintessence
(or ‘dark energy’)
that accounts for perhaps two-thirds
of the cosmological bulk,
a supersymmetrical Waveform
pushed by gravity
into a more or less uniform haze
permeating every nanometer of the cosmos.
It is the Dance of the God Shiva --
He whose gestural swayings are
the primal Word come alive,
He whose choreography is
the dynamic whirligig
of continuous creation,
He whose very presence
over the waters of the primal abyss
stirs the resonance pattern of Life
into manifest being.
5.
This vitalizing Consciousness is
the proverbial ‘Fifth Element’
-- a dynamic subquantum Quintessence
that thrills even the emptiest chasm
with a vibrantly creative lust for life.
Beyond the quantum duality of particle and field
(where measurement of space and time
fades into an improbable immateriality)
the structure of the cosmos recedes
into an immense ‘zero-point’ background
of energetic potentiality.
All that lives appears here
as a tiny quantized ripple
upon this placid crystalline Sea,
this sacred Plenum of unplumbed vitality.
The objects, entities, and events
of the phenomenal Universe are thus
inhomogeneities in the primal Quintessence
through which Consciousness takes on
its diverse plurality of form
-- etheric bubblings through which
the omniversal Absolute upwells continually,
further impelling Matter’s evolutionary ascent
to greater and more novel degrees
of complexification.
6.
This nonlocal Consciousness
is the primary Absolute of all cosmologies;
the heaving Ground of all Being:
a cloudless reservoir
of boundless potentiality
and limitless possibilities.
It is both an emanation from on high
as well as a welling-up from below.
It is itself the blueprint of the human race
as well as the cornerstone
of its future crowning superstructure.
This Transcendent Conscious Being
(slowly explicating itself in Matter)
is the subquantum Source
of everything in the Universe,
the Fountain from which
all our lesser existences
pour fourth inexhaustibly
-- all created things being
lesser or greater unfoldments
of its enfolded,
infinitely creative potentiality.
The more or less limited wholeness of all beings
at all grades of evolutionary complexification
is thus representative of
a graduated attunement of the cosmic Unity,
an as yet imperfect reflection
of the crystalline clarity of the Omniversal One.
7.
Evolution (the slowly unfolding
succession of the living) is
the track record of this Consciousness,
always perfecting
and further refining its relationship
to its earthen biological interface
-- every new permutation and metamorphosis
positing a further step towards
the further manifestation of its overall design --
each new species better adapting
the cosmic playground
for greater manifestations of conscious activity
than the last.
The gradual emergence
of elemental Quintessence
from implicate potentiality
to explicate hyperstructure
has but one goal –
maximum expressive manifestation
in the creative cosmos,
the mastering of material dimensionality.
Cosmogenetic creation is thus
not a specific ‘alpha’ event in the long past --
the vast cosmos is itself
a unified Organism
that is being created continually,
maintained moment by moment
by the unbroken influx
of a hyperkinetic Quintessence
which is continually metabolizing
the ambient sparkle of
a hyperdimensional Other
into material Spacetime.
So long as our universe continues to inflate,
the adventure of Consciousness will never arrive
at any final destination,
will never achieve a finished destiny,
but will continue always to expand and diversify,
hyperlinking the cosmos from one end to the other
with the gossamer mappings
of a transdimensional Beyond.
********************************************* (to be continued ...)
Apropos.
A shining miracle exists everywhere in Creation.
There are no truly empty or barren places
in all the cosmos –
all that lives is a sacred part
of the seamless fabric of Creation.
Life is everywhere,
both visibly and invisibly,
omnipresent;
all of Reality is infused
with the quickening presence
of a vitalizing Quintessence.
· As a river flows windingly through its course, and thereby fills it — the breath of the Spirit breathes through all things, and thus takes all creation for its body.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 22)
· A nature found within all creatures but not restricted to them; outside all creatures, but not excluded from them.
(Anonymous, author of The Cloud of Unknowing)
· God is both the ocean-source from which we spring, and the reservoir into which our many rivers empty.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 10)
· Some say a soul is mingled in the whole universe -- which is perhaps why Thales thought that everything is full of gods.
(Aristotle, Metaphysics)
· As a wave that seethes and foams is but a tapestry of beaded water, as a drapery in its warp and weave is but a pattern of singular threads — so is the world in all its restless turning but the passionate unfolding of the God-Self within.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 8)
· Reality is not the sum of things. It is the unity in which all things, coming together, are transmuted.
(Francis Herbert Bradley, The Absolute)
· As the spokes of a wheel hold to the nave — so does all creation hold fast to the midmost Spirit.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 21)
· We can find no province of the world so low but the Absolute inhabits it. Where we can point to reality, there is the one undivided life of the Absolute.
(Francis Herbert Bradley, The Absolute)
· To be born is not to come into this world — all that lives comes out of Creation like a wave from the ocean.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 36)
· The imperfection of the instrument does not detract from the excellence of the Master. The insufficiency of temporary channels does not lessen the fullness of the Eternal Fountain.
(Zolar, The Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge)
· All things are as doors through which the all-seeing Eye looks out into its own infinitude.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 71)
^Upwinger^
About two and half years ago I wrote Beyond Blogging: Real-Time Intimate Reality on my old blog Planet P.
Well, it looks like one of the key technologies I speculated about now has a working prototype called Reality Fly Through developed by computer scientists at UCSD. Here's the link to some video demos.
On the one hand these technologies could be used for surviellance by those at the top, on the other hand, these same technologies as I pointed out will radically democratize and decentralize surviellance into what Steve Mann calls sousveillance.
via Boing Boing
RU Sirius's latest podcasts on the MondoGlobo Network feature interviews with
UC Berkeley engineer/artist Ken Goldberg and "mad scientist" Jack Sarfatti (Blog, StarDrive Discussion Group). Goldberg discusses robotics, surveillance, and "tele-epistemology" while Sarfatti delves into UFOs, time travel, and the science of Star Trek. Link to Show #3 with Goldberg, Link to Show #4 with Sarfatti.