“I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere.” - Ralph Abraham, The Evolutionary Mind (1988)
Lawrence Hagerty wrote in The Spirit of the Internet,“…the
Internet is not the noosphere. It is merely an infrastructure that is
now available for the noosphere to use.” Hagerty goes on to profess, “I
believe that the Internet is serving as just such an attractor, or
basin of attraction, drawing the Earth’s most creative minds into a
synergistic union out of which a new form of human consciousness can
arise from the wells of chaos.“
The noosphere is a term created by Jesuit priest/radical thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
whose ideas were frankly force-fed to me in college in the eighties (I
happened to attend a Jesuit university where he was practically
worshiped as a god). For that reason perhaps I wrongly assumed his
teachings were more widespread than they actually were at the time. But
I find no uncertain irony that his ideas continue to haunt my own
delightfully synchronous journey towards Singularity.
Not the technological singularity of Ray Kurzweil; I’m talking more about what’s happening over at Reality Sandwich, and other important, alternative think tanks of our time. “New science” is termed thusly because, reminiscent of Capra’s intuitions
of decades past, scientific discoveries are merged with new (and
perhaps very old) interpretations of consciousness. This is how it
should be; the Newtonian universe must ultimately be discarded in favor
of the quantum discoveries that tickle our brains, easing us into new
frontiers of existence, consciousness and human evolution. The homo cyber
I find mentioned here and there, if left alone in the wilderness of
pure artificial or mechanistic intelligence, would be the unfortunate
result of not taking the final step of this process. Like refusing to
take the red pill,
our psyches would be left to rot inside the prison Matrix of third
dimensional space-time. “There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” reminds Shakespeare.
The Internet may be Noosphere 1.0, a precursor to an enlightened state of consciousness; or perhaps, Noosphere for Beginners, or Noosphere for Dummies.
Though arguably a creation of Big Brother’s sinister and eavesdropping
omnipresence, the Internet is also being used, perfectly a la Tao, as a
vehicle to transmit thoughts and ideas in preparation for a purely
telepathic noosphere. The next several years its role will be vastly
influential in terms of the global progression of consciousness, and I
urge all to participate as they can until then (or until the government
curtails this freedom, much as it has done with suppressing
entheogens); but at some point, perhaps soon, the circuits and
transistors will go the way of the covered wagon. Many of us will leave
our electronic devices abandoned on the beach as we eventually look up
and realize the great sea of enlightenment and oneness is before us,
and go in for a dip – never to return. The key to ridding ourselves of
the shackles of this reality is love, pure and simple. Love is the
thing no machine can transmit; love is the unique trait, or ability,
that will catapult our transformation from homo sapiens not to homo cyber, but to homo luminus.
The minds at work on the great
consciousness project at this moment are alive during this time not by
accident. They are all Surfing the Tao though they may not be aware of
it. We are all giving what we have, and taking what we need, in some
kind of post-modern, spirit-driven, psychedelic communistic mind trip,
hastened by our collective visions of 2012 and beyond. Hagerty calles
it entheospace;
I might describe the sensation as a sort of dreamstate, finding oneself
floating down a river of consciousness, gently colliding with others
riding down the same stream in a kind of synchronistic, fractal pattern
of atunement, as we all slip closer to the great sea.
Daniel Pinchbeck’s first book was entitled, Breaking Open the Head –
which I mention here not for its particular content, which is a
mind-expanding examination of the entheogenic experience, but because
it so aptly illustrates my own particular state of being.
My own head cracked in college, during
several misguided entheogenic experiences. I discovered Terence
McKenna, but as far as spirituality goes, I was definitely a seeker who
didn’t really want to spend any time looking.
This all changed in 1999. The previous
fracture, which had begun to scar over, was rent asunder, and a torrent
of new knowledge and higher frequencies began to stream in. I will only
say: the true masters are truly hidden. And it is meant to stay that
way, for now, perhaps because actual participants can often teach each
other more in the beginning. But I was urged to continue meditating,
and before long I had what Neil Kramer over at The Cleaver might call a fourth dimensional experience.
Without any entheogenic aid, I crossed over into the void. Suddenly, I Knew.
There are no further words for what I
experienced. The language simply doesn’t exist. But it changed
everything I knew, all that I was. What followed was years of reading,
researching, listening, loving, meditating and change. Many of the
books that appeared as if by magic I have listed here.
My intellectual side was frustrated, but my spirit was at peace for the
first time I can remember in my adult life. The end result of that was,
I wrote a book, which was really just a cathartic expression of my
overwhelmed psyche.
My own path is still guided by amazing
synchronicity and coincidence. I find it startling how often I find
articles written about the very subject I had been ruminating about.
How I discover brilliant minds have already found answers to the
questions I have been asking. How so many of our paths are beginning to
converge on the Great Path. Spirituality, Taoism, 2012, eschatology,
Planet X, the Matrix, conspiracy, sinister agendas, alien technology,
symbology, synchromysticism, mind control, electromagnetism,
alternative energy, quantum physics, plasma physics, torsion physics,
entheogenic-inspired thought and conscious enlightenment, ecocentric
living, — the puzzle pieces are coming together rapidly. I cannot
explain how I know what I Know, yet I will say; the quickening is upon
us. The noosphere is coalescing. The Puzzle of Being, and the question
of consciousness, is in the process of being realized by a vast cadre
of psycho-cryptographers.
The great irony is, I sense, that this
enlightened, super-charged, noospheric state of being is and has always
has been, here and now. This ancient Way that has been lost during our
fall, over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, is now being quickly
rediscovered, picked up and dusted off as some kind of primordial
reflex to protect ourselves from what we subconsciously know is coming.
We are remembering, so that we will survive.
I remember Y2K. Regarding expectations
for 2012, the intensity of thought, intellect, spirit, and energy now
in 2008 is somewhat on par with what happened the months previous to
Y2K. And we have nearly five years left. What incredible postulations,
theories, discoveries, transitions, realizations, opportunities,
manifestations, creations and expectations will surface between now and
then?
And what will happen on December 21,
2012 at 11:11 universal time? That remains to be seen; but to prepare
for either global catastrophe, psychedelic wormholes or simply more
life as we know it – the only answer is, and always will be: love,
peace and harmony.
Sometimes I wonder how I find what I do
here online – and when I do, I wonder what else I’m missing. I’m only
one person. Only one computer. Only so many hours in the day.
If you’ve made it this far, please
consider leaving a comment here regarding what author, what religion,
what spiritual path, what thinker, what scientist, what discovery, what
issue, what website, what experience – what ANYTHING that has made a
difference for you on your journey.
Give what you have. Take what you need.
As it acts in the world, the Tao
is like the bending of a bow.
The top if bent downward;
the bottom is bent up.
It adjusts excess and deficiency
so that there is perfect balance.
It takes from what is too much
and gives to what isn’t enough.
– Tao Te Ching #77