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2012's Very Real Geomagnetic Strangeness & Its Potential Effect On Human Consciousness

Posted April 3rd, 2009 by Michael Garfield

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2012, the Aquarian Age, and the Nature of Evolution

Ladies and gentlemen,

Before we go making statements like "humanity is about to go up in light," or "humanity is NOT about to go up in light," I present to you a few significant pieces of recent geophysical and astrophysical evidence that suggest that something very strange is INDEED happening with our planet - and, as organisms bound electromagnetically to this planet, to ourselves as well.

This is NOT simply an issue of individual psychology on a mass scale, as Ken makes it out to be. This is an issue of the human holon existing within a larger system of fractal organization, one for which events at greater magnitudes directly affect our own. In order to understand a possible multimethodological basis behind some of these 2012 claims, we have to take into consideration the growing body of data that suggests our planet IS in fact in for a wild ride, and we are too.

First of all, there are over thirty years of research from various sources indicating that our Sun's curiously-weakening magnetic field is linked to increases in volcanic and seismic activity, global warming, and the instability of Earth's magnetic poles. There have also been correlations drawn between cycles of human creativity and violence due to how magnetic entrainment of the human organism to the Earth's (and consequently, the Sun's) magnetosphere can affect hormone release patterns:

http://www.alexansary.com/Editorial/Sun%20spots%20and%20a%20weakened%20magnetic%20field.html

Second of all, we're primed for a period of solar activity that is totally unprecedented in the history of technological civilization, which major - conservative - scientific institutions such as the National Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency are warning could create the greatest natural catastrophe in human history:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?full=true

Third, recent research indicates that the intensity and peculiarity of dreams is directly linked to geomagnetic activity, with more bizarre and "fantastic" dreams occurring in periods of low magnetic activity due to magnetic control over melatonin cycles:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16871-sweet-dreams-are-made-of-geomagnetic-activity.html?full=true&print=true

Fourth, scientists have used local magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes in clinical trials to reproduce the phenomenological reports of clinical DMT (the potent psychedelic chemical created by the human brain and correlated with spiritual experiences) - the conclusion they reached was that magnetic field stimulation was actually releasing endogenous DMT:

http://www.appropriate-entertainment.com/My_Homepage_Files/Download/PersingerHillDMT.pdf

For what it's worth, Maharishi Yogi insisted (casually) that 2012 would see a reversal of Earth's magnetic poles, during which human consciousness would be wiped...like passing a huge magnet over a hard drive. And we ARE going to be in direct alignment with the supermassive blackhole at the center of the Milky Way at that time, which is known to be responsible for all kinds of unusual gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena we still only poorly understand, but in all likelihood is responsible for the Sun's increasingly erratic behavior.

From an integral perspective, claims such as this seem to make a strange kind of sense. Yes, human mind (interior) is correlated with gross electromagnetic fields (exterior). Yes, those fields are in a nested structure with human fields entrained to larger geophysical and astrophysical field events. (I disagree with Ken's interpretation of Lovelock's Gaia Theory...if for every exterior there is a correlated interior, then it seems that AQAL's first principles suggest that the magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun might well indeed be the exterior dimensions of a transcedental mind, as the ancients believed.) And what we're talking about here is something that is suggested by evidence from nearly every methodology I know of, premodern modern and postmodern alike.

(I love and thank Ken immensely for his contributions and wisdom but he's not exactly known for heeding the latest thirty years of scientific evidence on anything...in fact, among the professional research scientists I know personally, he's totally disregarded for this reason, which is very unfortunate.)

Point being, the above websites have opened in my mind at least the POSSIBILITY that there may be something to the claims of of these pre-rational societies and more contemporary bizarre alternative methodologies (like Terence McKenna's TimeWave Zero Project and how he arrived at the 2012 date by using the I Ching as a calculator). At the very least, if we are indeed co-participants in enacted reality, the simple fact that so many people INDEPENDENTLY arrived at these conclusions bears our serious consideration.

I believe that ignoring the accelerating incidence of psychospiritual phenomenological data reported from all corners of our culture and numerous others is a severely ignorant move here...especially when there is a growing pile of empirical data that seems to provide us with the beginning contours of a legitimate rational mechanism for all of these nonrational occurrences.

We are probably not talking about a STAGE shift, here, but a STATE shift - a global simultaneous DMT dump that would for all intents and purposes appear to the 70% of ethnocentric humanity as "The Rapture," and could well destroy an enormous amount of our technological infrastructure at around the same time that it replants us a new mind and world.

Then again, most sources claim that this event, if it does happen, will catapult us into a reality entirely foreign to the one we know - one in which, perhaps, stage development continues but in a totally different fashion. And in regards to this, another thing that deserves mention is the scientific subdiscipline of cymatics, or the study of the effects of soundwaves on matter. Here are some fantastic videos that demonstrate how waves create stable interference patterns as frequencies rise in a system, until phase-shifting nodal points of destructive reorganization tear everything apart, only to rebuild the same ingredients in a similar but more intricate pattern:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=cymatics%20video&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#

I got my college degree in evolutionary biology and have since extensively researched the work in multiple disciplines that is converging on a general theory of evolution. A significant piece of that puzzle is the so-called "bifurcation point," linked to Ilya Prigogine's Nobel Prize-winning work on dissipative structures. The esssence of his theory was that as more and more energy flows through any system at a particular level of organization, the system undergoes greater stress until it either disintegrates under an unmanageable level of input or recrystallizes at a higher level, one that more efficiently distributes this heightened energetic load.

Right before water boils, hexagonal cells begin to form on the bottom of the pot. But remember that water is still water at 211 degrees Farenheit...

That said, let me have it. :) If you can make more sense out of this same information than I have, I welcome your perspectives.

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Great post

Posted April 3rd, 2009 by Brian OConnell

I loved, loved your post. Taking the electromagnetic field into account for events is a big change in orientation. The science on this has been theoretically been completed.

http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory/book.shtml

This science brings in a whole new civilization that can solve our most pressing issues. This new science looks to me like the Integral science or the integral aspect of the IT domain.

Its like the 2012 event would be the cultural initiation of humanity into the cosmic reality of galaxy and sun instead of just a earth based orientation.

Kudos to you Michael for connecting alot of dots. Plasma cosmology has a radical change in how we view the exteriors. With Integral knowledge the new science can be interrealated with the other domains without the subtle reduction the currently accepted science has.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/

I am so excited about plasma cosmology and what it heralds for future humanity. Energy problems(Solved), Poverty problems(solved) etc. This is a big change from a paradigm of scarcity to aboundance with out the wishfull thinking because it is scientific.

Brian

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2012 - The electric Apocalypse

Posted April 4th, 2009 by Christophe Witz

Hi Michael and Brian,

wow I'm getting a lot out of your posts.

This whole issue with the new electric Kosmology is truly exiting. I know you recommended the 'Thunderbolts of the Gods' video before, Brian, but only now did I actually give it a chance to slip into my awareness. The implications, especially in unlocking the returning patterns in the Earth's mythologies, are breathtaking. I'm still digesting all this...

I also liked the study about dreams being in some way connected to the geomantic activity, Michael. As I understand it, there is no real evidence yet to back it up, but the idea is interesting and makes intuitively sense. I had an intense period of dreams some years ago, let's say 2002/03, involving bizarre events like colliding planets etc. (Don't worry I consulted my therapist at that time :P) It would be interesting to know if this corresponded with geomantic activities; though I see no way how to reassess this today.

There is much more to say... Just one more thing: I do not regret all the time spent on playing those geeky SciFi Cyberpunk RPGs. In retrospective, it seems almost like a playful way to train the imagination to cope with dramatic changes such as 2012 seems to be one. Thank you FASA and R. Talsorian Games!

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Additionally...

Posted April 4th, 2009 by Michael Garfield

Gentlemen, thanks - if you can find someone who strongly disagrees with my position, I'd love to hear that perspective as well. But I'm finding more and more research every day that the integral community at large is either simply unaware of or intentionally ignoring because it reeks of "magenta" or "boomeritis" or however some people choose to dismiss those things they prefer not to hear. Dean Radin wrote a fantastic essay on how some people just can't see the evidence for psychic phenomena:

http://www.realitysandwich.com/what_gorilla

...not exactly the same in terms of content, but possibly the same in terms of structural patterning. The will to maintain a coherent theory is incredibly strong, in the face of what to other people would seem to be overwhelming anomalous evidence otherwise. I'll admit to this trend in my own thinking as well, but I really am doing my best to get to deconstuct the picture I've assembled, here.

For what it's worth, intuitive data is the seed of "objective fact." In their fantastic book On Becoming Aware (recommended reading in my JFKU Integral Theory course on Phenomenology), Varela et al. discussed a kind of continuum of objectivity (p.85) in which the various methods of integral theory are aligned along a single trajectory from I to We to It to Its, each step along the path moving from more subjective to more objective domains. Of course, thanks to work like Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By (almost certainly a foundational text behind Ken's work), we know that the objective and subjective interpenetrate. It's a hall of mirrors in every quadrant. But Varela et al.'s position on this was totally awakening for me; it was, essentially:

"We don't believe in delusion, since although we can challenge someone's interpretation of an experience it's impossible to disconfirm the intuitive validity of the experience itself - whether they actually had it. However, we do believe in functionality, in the degree to which one person's experience can be correlated with others."

The jist as I understand it is that we have innumerable semi-permeable worldspaces and they're all granted a quantum of validity, and the various methods of IMP disclose to us how these various worldspaces can be articulated in the meta-space of perspectives.

I'm just doing my best to understand whether AQAL's fantastic utility as an interpretive instrument can take this research apart, or only lends it more solidity. It seems to me that it's the latter, because as I said, the evidence for this 2012 event comes from nearly every perspective I can find - the independent observations of multiple cultures at equivalent altitudes premodern, modern, and postmodern through methods intuitive, interpretive, empirical, and systemic.

What more, I believe that the same data point to a fairly extensive challenge to Ken's interpretation of AQAL that in some sense simplifies and streamlines the entire model, and is truer to its first principles and post-metaphysical agenda: in that we're dealing with issues such as the non-linearity of time, bidirectional information flows and mutual causation, and the logical extension of the interior/exterior correlation to levels of manifestation that are more complex than the human holon (seriously, to suppose that we are the most sophisticated beings in creation - or even in observation - is supreme arrogance).

Come on, people! Dismiss this with some rigor, please! I'm happy to explain why I feel that these statements are not only intuitively valid but also more practical (both within and beyond the context of arriving at a more elegant integral theory).

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Language of the spheres

Posted April 4th, 2009 by Brent Simpson in response to Additionally...

Interesting stuff.

The following loosely connects to your ideas presented above.

Overview

I am certainly skeptical of the ideas offered surrounding 2012. As we know there have been many, many times in the past when people thought that there would be great change on a certain day, year, hour and the going academic historical account of these predictions is that they never get it right. Every time another prophet pipes in declaring a great change is on its way they get it wrong or, so says our philosophers and historians of our time. All that said, I still keep an open mind and one can say without pause that "the times are a changing" and exponentially so.

I like the pointed observations made by the futurist John Peterson (from the Arlington Institute) he avoids the mythic and superstitious accounts and says that there are serious environmental, political and economic trends that may well reach a crescendo in three years. he predicts there will be a crisis and things could get really quite bad first. (have a listen ~ if and only if you have a WIE account)

Some things came up as I read ya'lls insights. In particular on cymatics, myths and synesthesia.

Cymatics

I had never heard of cymatics prior to your posts here. I did a little research and came across a wonderful conversation with John Reed (a sound engineer) who maintains a healthy level of skepticism that is refreshing, yet very optimistic about the possibilities within this new science. In particular, he maintains (and I didn't find any proof of this, yet he says that while in Eygpt he found a way to produce hieroglyphs by placing a membrane on a sarcophagus in a granite tomb/box and playing sound frequencies) and that the ancient Egyptians where subliminally effected by these tonal qualities (his theory) and the Egyptians produced the hieroglyphs therefrom. (heres the link) Brian you linked to "symbols of an alien sky". Wherein, the theory posits that perhaps because of patterns in art and hieroglyphs around the world Saturn and Venus were out of there present orbit thousands of years ago perhaps lingering very close to earth for some time. It was worth watching, but I think there may be better explainations than whats posited there. One would connect this idea to cymatics maybe there are frequencies that subliminally present themselves to man in thematic patterns. As essentially posited by John Reed above. Or we could use Wilbers theory which would suggest that these symbols would be something like archetypes or grooves laid down in the early minds of men/women. Which brings me to myths and Wilber.

Myths

Prior to the Wilber-Combs Lattice (in books such as "A Brief History of Everything") Wilber maintained that states were stacked on top of stages. Namely, that psychic, subtle, casual and non-dual sat on top of the earlier stages. When asked about Jungian acrhetypes he argued that they came from from early pre-rational society not the trans-rational stages of psychic and up. He has since re-worked his theory placing states alongside stages. With this re-working I'm left wondering ought all these Jungian archetypes be left simply as earlier stages, or be some kind of complex mixture of early stages (sometimes experienced in deep states). As if Wilbers revision of states and stages thoery is right he need to make another account of Jungian archetypes that take into account the possibility of deep states. Maybe in connection to all of this synethesia can offer up some answers.

Synesthesia

Some people experience a mixing of senses. Saying that indeed certain letters are a certain color or that a number creates pictures in ones mind. Could it be why some number are considered lucky cross-culturally and others not. There are many verities of synesthesia some as I said deal with colors-numbers some with sounds-sense sounds-colors and so forth (heres the wikipedia article). I was reading about Plythagoras in one of my philosophy classes and it got me thinking about the notion that like a piano the pattern repeats like a fractal and if you carry that frequency up and up you get to colors. Maybe that has something important to do with why there rather repeatable agreement that certain sounds make a musician sense certain colors.

Conclusion

These connections are loose, but are we on the heels of a new language. The language of the spheres that makes sense to all senses... a super-connectivity between the patterns in our languages and our senses. If a certain shape is on another level coordinated in some way with some color why not make that shape or symbol that color and likewise with sound.

Blessings, B

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Forest And Trees

Posted April 4th, 2009 by Michael Garfield in response to Language of the spheres

All interesting topics indeed, Brent. I'd like to make it clear however that I brought up cymatics not for its implicated relationship to the history of human consciousness but because I think it provides an excellent example of one of the concepts I was attempting to communicate - namely, how the structure of matter responds to energy flows of differing intensities, and changes between those energy levels. It's an identical process to the shamanic death and rebirth, or the butterfly metamorphosis Deepak Chopra and Alex Grey are so fond of discussing (in which the caterpillar's imaginal cells liquify its body into a nutrient soup which it then uses to build the butterfly - it's not a simple adjustment of the sizes of parts, but a total digestion and reworking of contituent components).

And therefore I too am skeptical - skeptical of the willful presentism that so many people both within and beyond the integral community display about this hypothetical future scenario (especially when leading futurists like Petersen are in the same boat as the indigenous chieftains by telling us that 2012 whatever it may be is fundamentally unimaginable, and that all signs point toward us entering a world of where the rules simply won't apply as we understand them today...what makes us think we can make armchair declarations about something like that?).

All I'm trying to say is that we may be approaching a basic description of the correlations and mechanisms involved in something like this hypothesized event, that as the date grows closer we do seem to be opening a rational window on what was once supposedly merely a pre-rational prophesy.

As for archetypes, they do weigh in here. But to describe death as an archetype and to label archetypes as an emergent in mythic consciousness doesn't make death go away. Likewise, I don't think any kind of classification is going to change whether or not this all goes down. Just how we understand it. For the same reason that The Secret isn't the basic rule of the universe, we can't call this all merely a self-fulfilling prophesy or the regular precipitate of a morbid self-reflexivity. So far, every one of my intuitions about this stuff has eventually found backing in some kind of empirical research. Now it seems only a matter of adequately interpreting these data...

...and I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how all of these things could be true and still not point strongly toward the likelihood of such an event (one that would obviously not be merely electromagnetic, but since that's what contemporary science sees best, what we'd be likely to notice first, and have).

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re: Language of the Spheres

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Kerry Dugan in response to Language of the spheres

Brent,

The "loose connections" you've noted have a few resonances with something I'd read and heard.

Your mention of synesthesia in connection with Michael’s blog post prompted me to look up a book I hadn’t seen since around 1980: The Inner Radiance (published in 1935). The authors, who wrote extensively on what they referred to as planetary changes, with frequent references to prophecies, claimed that phonics, as subtle thought form patterns, were visible to some of the ancient innovators of written language.

I came across something they put out in 1926, Coming World Changes, on the website of a geologist working with the Edgar Casey material, William Hutton.

The following quote seems typical of their view, framing, and wording.

‘'The fetus of the New Humanity is already stirring in the Womb of Time, and, like the human mother, humanity must learn to eliminate its waste materials and poisons and give the fetus proper nourishment or the life of both the child and the mother will be endangered, as in cases of eclampsia. This is the work of the present transitory conditions. The entire thought and aim of to-day should be to meet present-day conditions as they confront us, but meet them with an intelligent conception of the advanced conditions in humanity and its organization toward which the present-day events are tending!"

Among the earlier writers on the Aquarian or New Age (1880s-1930s), for all their cultural baggage and idiosyncratic missions, there seems to have been a few generations of earnest seekers who approached methodological pluralism, attempting an integrated view of the informations available at the time. Or at least, they tended to take opportunities to cite LR and academic substantiations. I see much of what rode the Transcendentalist movement into the twentieth century as products of intellectual inbreeding, but some of those folks also took relatively broad inclusive perspectives, inviting novel ways of exploring, experiencing, understanding.

~*~

You also mention John Reid. Here’s a John Reid story. One in which I notice a link in the loose connections you’ve traced.

When John unveiled his invention, the Cymascope (here in Santa Fe, at The Awakening Museum), after explaining some of his studies of acoustic properties of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid, he said that he came to an intuitive conclusion that the chamber was “a resurrection machine”. Eight years before his study my own mother, after visiting the chamber, told her family and friends the same impression, that the chamber was “a resurrection machine”. Apparently independent yet identical conclusions. John’s, with training in science, my mom’s, as a trained psychic (consultant for the Center for Human Development) traveling with a group from the Association for Research and Enlightenment (the same affiliation as William Hutton, who I found through following up on your post). Tenuous links, yes, but clear from my own read of what you offered here yesterday, Brent.

I wrote more on meeting John in this post.

You’ve also reminded me that I wrote, in ‘84, about what I was calling, “Technopentecom”, a technologically facilitated global Pentecost. I'll see if I can find those old notes, or recall more of what I envisioned.

Such a rabbit hole. Flipping the tapestry, threads lead all over.

Kerry

edit: I've repaired the links.

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The Egyptians and Sound

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Linda Hollier in response to re: Language of the Spheres

Hi Kerry

Just picking up one of the threads on the back of the tapestry and threading it through to the front again!

Apparently the Egyptians had organized choirs of 12000 voices and orchestras consisting of 600 pieces by the time they built the pyramids. It is believed by many that much of the heaviest labour on the pyramids was accomplished by the use of directed and controlled sound.

The Egyptians claimed that the solar system has its own octave that then vibrates in harmony with all the other solar systems in the universe. Each planet was said to have its own distinct tone in the octave, and together the planets formed a composition.

The mystery tradition of Egypt also utilized stones and sound in the healing process. Sound frequencies were used not only for healing but also for achieving heightened consciousness. Gemstones were arranged in acoustical patterns and apparently when crystals are used with sound the combination restores balance and can release stress, shattering the negative patterns that have accumulated in the individual's energy field.

Oh well, let's turn the tapestry over again.

Regards

Linda

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Getting Back On Topic

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Michael Garfield in response to The Egyptians and Sound

You guys have any citations for this stuff?

I know John Reid - his work is fascinating, and his hypotheses inspiring. His claims regarding the Great Pyramid are currently unsubstantiated, to my knowledge, and everything else posted here is merely hearsay until otherwise indicated by those making the claims.

I'm saying this because I really am doing my best to keep all of this from spinning off into Wonderland. I find all of this stuff fascinating, but my intention with this thread was to start some kind of rigorous scientific discourse, not see who can list the most wild revisionist-archeology speculations.

So far nobody has commented on what I consider to be the main points in this thread, which all involve how AQAL might be evolved by:

- Fully extending the interior/exterior correlation "up" the holarchy AS WELL as "down," giving subatomic particles their due quantum of interiority but also recognizing planets, stars, and galaxies to possess exponentially greater exterior complexity organized around what is indeed, in spite of what Ken has said, a dominant monad - the singularities that frontier physics has located at the heart of these structures.

- Understanding human psychology as EMBEDDED in this transcendent psychology, just as human electromagnetic fields are embedded in the Earth's magnetosphere (two sides of the same coin).

- Restoring due diligence to the integral community's exploration and appraisal of research beyond whatever Ken cites (and ESPECIALLY regarding those topics he wavingly dismisses, and ESPECIALLY when these topics concern possible events that would affect our entire species).

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collective < monad ?

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Kerry Dugan in response to Getting Back On Topic

Michael,

We're all in the same boat even if no two of us are quite on the same page. Brent made an original contribution which I felt deserved a supportive nod. He presented a coherence I could readily relate to.

Maybe you can help me see through what I take as self-contadictory in your post above.

Stating intentions of due diligence and rigorous scientific discourse, you also posit a dominant monad holarchically above the person. Contradictory?

As is, AQAL, the map, appears to allow that while there may be such a "transcendent psychology", as you say, our enactments begin and end in the human, in all it's rich interdependence.

A person's electromagnetic field is embedded in the a planet's magnetosphere, until it is not. How does maintaining the position that human psychology is embedded in in a transcendent psychology differ from Intelligent Design theory, or from anthrocentric projection?

I can see that psychology in the collective can be interpreted as a transcendent psychology, but I don't see the collective as a monad.

I think that what we're witnessing in the convergence of methodological affirmations of probabilities around 2012 events is symptomatic of an adolescent noosphere yearning for a collective equivalent of rites-of-passage. That there are charecteristics, or grooves, of personhood which get reflected or transposed in the collective. And that collective behaviors lag behind, evolving later than, individual monadic developments.

Human psychology may well be mutating, again, in response to new conditions. And this time with a greater informedness from more zones than ever before.

all for now,

Kerry

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Kymatica

Posted April 12th, 2009 by Brent Simpson in response to collective < monad ?

Wow, found a esoteric video on (mostly) cymatics that tries to integrate a huge worldview. Many of the notions presented herein have been talked about in this blog. In fact, the link is almost eerie to me. It looks very much like a Wilber II presentation. Anyway, its cool and worth a watch! Here it is.

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Great video

Posted April 16th, 2009 by Brian OConnell in response to Kymatica

This video jumps around perceptually through so much postmodern thought, it felt like I was travelling through a worm hole that would never land. It was a great video and comlplete disaster at the same time. They became wishy washy on the Elites. Not sure if they are going for radical individual awakening such that the elite do not matter or that the elite do exsist but we can not respond with the same disease that they have. I think with Integral thought everything showing its pathology below orange would need to be wacked to have the pathology from spreading into the public sphere. So they admit to some deep manifested evil but it only exsists because of our psyche as individuals. But I thought they went through how much the collective pattern determines behavior for individuals. Then why all the look at yourself as the cause and for the solutions to so many of the problems that are pointed out. Its more like when people realize what has been done to them under the shadow of money , government and the military industrial complex , their will be the mob going after the elite and we will make them extinct. How we chose to go from there sounds much more rosey like the vision in this video Kymatica and the Integral vision. Until then Humanity will not be successful in transforming itself. Food turns out to be pretty impotant for life and we do not have control of it. Guess who does? I like this video, with all its postmodern pitfalls.

http://www.youstupidrelativist.com/08Ext/00SumExt.html

Kymatica is the leftist video of Zeigiest Addendum (which does not underestimate the Elite) but equally falls on its face. I still am having a hard time seeing people become farmers again. I think the technological solutions have been suppressed for decades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jImdQtZdktY&feature=player_embedded

There is also new technologies coming from companies like. www.blacklightpower.com

So I think the problem is political and its a battle of freedom (individuals) against the very few global elites. And the best resource I can give you for a foundation for studying the elite properly is to study Historian Caroll Quigley's work called "Tragedy and Hope". We take care of the Elite and we would be able to easily sustain humanity to 250 Billion people in just this solar system. We are in the dark ages and we still have our rulers. Take the profit survival fear motive out of society and we will turn into a mature natural humanity instead of being inslaved as adolescence(Current state of man) by our parents(the global elite). We need to kill our parents or at least put them in a special room so we can mature. If the elite were sane then it might be a different story. But they act with great evil. Got your little farm? I don't.

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Not exactly, not as I understand it.

Posted April 16th, 2009 by Michael Garfield in response to collective < monad ?

Kerry,

I agree with you, and with biologist Lewis Thomas, that if you view the behavior of nations as those of individuals, they look like real pricks. Selfish, immature, violent. Not exactly more evolved than most functioning adults.

What I'm referring to are not the collective dimensions of a holon at the human magnitude, but the human holon as one constituent subcomponent of a much, much vaster holon. In that sense, yes I am indeed arguing for people to notice what I believe to be the overwhelming evidence from multiple methodologies that there are holons superior to people.

"How does maintaining the position that human psychology is embedded in in a transcendent psychology differ from Intelligent Design theory, or from anthrocentric projection?"

What I am arguing is one side of an academic conflict of the Copernican variety...it's ludicrous, even from a merely logical stance, that we humans who evolved on this five-billion year old planet from life that self-organized almost instantly from the cooling crust in a universe over ten billion years older than our own star (and that's just the observable universe, which accounts for about 4% of observable mass, and that's only within the Hubble Bubble), can say without our tongues firmly planted in our cheeks that there are not more ancient and sophisticated intelligences.

One of the reasons I admire science is that it has repeatedly knocked us down the totem pole, while compassionately confirming our "center of the universe" intuitions by elaborating on the nonlocality and fractality of the processes that we represent. Human beings can be both nothing special and simultaneously a microcosm of the evolution of sentience...can be both "just on some random planet" and simultaneously in the center of the observable universe (not just in space, but also in frequency and time).

The "positing," if you must use such a tentative term, of a transcendent psychology is as I understand it comes no less from "due diligence and rigorous scientific discourse" than the "positing" of a quantum unit of mind in subatomic particles – upon which the entire structure of AQAL is perched. I encourage you to look to the work of Nassim Haramein (theresonanceproject.org) for his elegant elucidation of how universal scaling laws are fundamental to the entire process of scientific induction.

And as for enacted vs. nonenacted knowledge, I stand behind these claims as fitting the best postmetaphysical inquiry, precisely because there is a point at which we can no longer rely on merely our own perspectives, and must accept the testimony of experts in disciplines other than our own...the whole point of methodological pluralism when undertaken on such a grand scale. (It's not that we COULDN'T confirm or deny their claims, just that we don't have time to become experts in everything.) For the same reason Ken insistst that material science can make no valid claims about satori, I argue that any paradigm that attempts to find transcendent intelligence only on its own terms is shit out of luck.

(In related news, did you hear about the crop circles that appeared in the field across the street from the Chilbolton Radio Telescope in apparent response to the 1974 SETI Arecibo message? http://www.geocities.com/transition7/contact.html)

The reason that this is different from ID or anthropocentric projection should be clear by now – both of them assume to understand the qualities of a transcendent intelligence to varying degrees. It's not that there can't BE transcendent intelligences (in fact, I'd argue all day that there can't CAN'T be transcendent intelligences), but that because of the "event horizon" of our own cognition, trying to describe them from the inside is somewhat futile. We can still notice them, though. I mean, they DO communicate with people...at least those who refuse the overwhelming evidence that such communications are not of human origin. (Not just talking about crop circles here, but for those alone we're dealing with issues of the time it took to create them, radiation signatures, and changes in the DNA of the plant material...sophisticated and strange beyond understanding or current known human capacity, much less dudes with planks on their feet.)

Not sure what you mean by this:

"A person's electromagnetic field is embedded in the a planet's magnetosphere, until it is not."

I agree, I think. If you separate human heart cells, they begin to beat asynchronously. Put just two of them in the dish together again and they'll sync back up. I encourage you to look up information on the less-publicized health and psychological effects of astronautics..."space madness" is not a joke.

Now, please explain to me how your "adolescent noosphere" doesn't qualify as a transcendent holon, as opposed to merely the collective dimension of human individuals...or whether this distinction is actually, as I suspect, one of the sticking points in Ken's articulation.

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Posted April 29th, 2009 by Kerry Dugan in response to Not exactly, not as I understand it.

Michael,

Seeing Dee Black's post of today ("could this universe be but a cell in an organism we could never comprehend?"), then seeing your response to Linda's blog, reminded me that I hadn't answered your asking for clarification yet. Re: "...please explain to me how your 'adolescent noosphere' doesn't qualify as a transcendent holon..."

Sure it's a holon, I suppose. A dominant monad? No. I don't think so. It looks like there's consensus that holons go all the way up.

Speaking of the noosphere as adolescent, as becoming aware, I'd concieved of it as still emergent, not yet transcendent. Even then, only as still emerging in human awareness, not as posessing it's own faculty of awareness. Not as an individual that develops.

What Ken, in Excerpt C (The Ways We Are In This Together) calls "an eco-imperium stance", a confusing of individual and social regarding interobject totality, I was/am extending to an "eco-auctoritas" stance: agency beyond the individual.

Influenced by something I'd read last year on the SFI site... (1)

...I'm unsure, and curious, as to what comlexity (presumably with it's commensurate rise in consciousness) you may have in mind. Is transcendent intelligence seen as an example of "the more complex, the simpler the function" ? (as in, Ken's Excerpt D ? I forget where he wrote that).

Bucky Fuller used to ask people, in private, if they had "...crossed the great divide", and he defined that crossing as, "When you stop giving others credit for what you yourself have done."

Michael, I see your enthusiasm for this exploration as marvelous. Your drive to integrate the full range of what enters your awareness is more than valid, more than admirable, it's extraordinary.

But I don't read that a crossing of that "great divide" is informing your view. I read that something is out there, in time, in space, in the pieces our perspectives are, and I want to read that you know you are it. That these coming few years, and all that lead up to this, is you, also, all the way down and up.

(1)“Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist and a co-founder of SFI, and neuroscientist Chris Wood of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico, "a multidisciplinary think tank devoted to complexity theory" are quoted in a Time magazine article on what it means for something to be simple or complex. ‘A guppy, with its symphony of biological systems and subsystems, is vastly more complicated than a star.’ ” [The TIME article (without a by-line, online) continues] “Human beings are not wired to look at things this way. ...we mistake immensity for complexity…”

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The singularity of consciousness

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Brian Assam in response to Additionally...

Micheal,

If you remember I first met you at the Integral Leadership seminar in Westminster and later on contacted you over a year ago about a unifying theme for humanity. At that time I had a hard time explaining it (I still do,) but it is drawn from a conclusion that humanity is approaching a singularity/verticality in all quadrants at about the same time as 2012. I believe it lies within the capacity of humanity to reach a new context of being in which this singularity demands (i.e. dissipative structure) that transcends and includes the fundamental nature of humanity. This suggests a synthesis in the dialectic of human progress.

In relation to what you are proposing my sole interest lies in the sustainability and prosperity of humanity, since this is what I am a part of; and I do everything I can to draw my conclusion from actual life experiences that lead to internal realizations. Needless to say, without any influence from Mayan prophecy, mythology or astral events, what makes total sense to the evolution of our species is that we are approaching this singularity within the next ten years. I find it quite interesting that I was in the process of composing a blog "Reaching a Unifying Worldview; Holistic-Integral Consciousness," when I took a break and found your excellent post! I am sure you will find this Blog interestingly similar to the nature of your own, and yes I too question the capacity of Integral to be aware of the dynamics of what we are discussing.

I have just finished a 28 page proposition titled "Human Unification through Self-organization." IMO it clearly defines and addresses the need for a new context of being in response to the urgency of our times. I do not deny that this parallels the astrological events that you propose, I find this very intriguing. This proposition suggests a unifying worldview that transcends and includes Integral, and suggests an inherent limitation (pathology) in stage development methodology. I have sent this to a number of people throughout the Integral community with no response, and no challenge, I find this interesting and much like the response you are referring to. If you or anyone else would like a copy I will gladly send it to you, otherwise I am looking forward to more on this discussion.

Namaste, B.

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Indeed

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Michael Garfield in response to The singularity of consciousness

Very interesting, Brian. You're right - we don't need to resort to prophesy to discuss this (and in fact, in many cases, including the claims of ancient and poorly-understood cultures actually closes people's minds to the actual message). I think your chart speaks pretty loudly, and everything I said in my post could just be supporting evidence.

That said, I'll go check out the blog you just posted. Thanks...

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However...

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Michael Garfield in response to Indeed

I also want to make a point here that I DO NOT believe as you said that integral theory is powerless to explain this stuff. The point is that IT IS, and it's just being misapplied, or rather NOT applied.

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And I fully agree

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Brian Assam in response to However...

Michael,

Yes, I may be generalizing when I say that 'Integral' does not have the capacity to include this complexity, but what I really mean is the 'current application of Integral.' Integral in and of itself is limitless, yet its context can be limited 'within' a systematic view, as is the case with its current approach and its loyalty to the stage development methodology (please see my blogs,) or with what you are addressing. IMO there are many aspects of the current Integral approach that are limited and this will only become more apparent in the immediate future.

I define Holistic-Integral consciousness as transcending and including the current Integral approach because Holistic-Integral maintains a seemless holistic approach throughout the entire phylum of being. It properly addresses humanity and everything that is unique to humanity within the universal structure. My argument lies in defining an inherent and unifying nature of humanity, of which the current Integral approach does not recognize, or does it? This can all be clarified but takes a considerable amount of evidence to prove.

I have yet to post my Blog, but I will forward it to you when I do. Like I said this is extremely difficult to express and even more difficult to accept because it deals with the fundamental nature of being human; remember the subject can only be understood as the object of the next stage, the whole of humanity is no acception to this rule. Basically I am attempting to define the true meaning of humanity along with our inherent purpose, focusing on nothing less than the Omega point for civilization, and while I feel this proposition has met this context, to explain the Omega point for humanity is the ultimate in audacity.

I am grateful that someone else has the 'cajones' to push the envelope. At this point, any discussion of this nature should be accepted and practiced as trans-personal (in other words, non-personal.) I believe that you and I agree what should be maintained is that an Integral perspective invites all levels of criticism to all discussion, especially a discussion of cosmic proportions.

What you are suggesting can only help to further a context that opens higher level awareness to what is to come. It is obviously apparent that we are integrated physically, biologically and cognitively; this means that cosmic forces along with cosmic energy is fundamental to everything and this relate to our current condition. The acceleration of change is apparent to anyone who is tuned into this cosmic capacity, but defining the significance of this event another story. IMO we can reach a context that is capable of addressing anything from survival needs, to unification, to realizing that everything is ultimately impermanent; and in that regard what is the point of all of this discussion?

Namaste, B.

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Interested

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Mike Redmer in response to The singularity of consciousness

I am interested in reading your paper. Could you send it to mike.redmer@gmail.com? Thank you.

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The meaning behind the Myth.

Posted April 8th, 2009 by Brian Assam in response to Additionally...

All archetypes, myths, prophecies, scientific evidence and calculations which refer to this 'singular' event reflect the need for Unification. Oh, and by the way, so do all religions and Integral theory which supports a directionality towards complex Unity! So yes, everything is emerging into Unanimity. Teilhard Rocks!

How this applies to humanity should be of primary interest, since this is what we are all a 'part' of. Jesus on cross represented the sacrifice of the 'separate self.' The Mayan calendar was not limited to the linear nature of the space and time continuum, of which we as humans we are enslaved to. The 2012 prophecy, along with the increasing evidence of accelerating change, reflects the coming of one major paradigm shift! Look at the nature of a black hole for further understanding, good luck.... if this post gets cut off at this point please see my Blog.

This all reflects the need to 'transcend' something, after all this is the nature of the "Bifurcation point" ...as more and more energy flows through any system at a particular level of organization, the system undergoes greater stress until it either disintegrates under an unmanageable level of input or recrystallizes at a higher level, one that more efficiently distributes this heightened energetic load.

So what is the cause of this stress, this tension that suggest a new context of being? In relation to humanity and the events that surround the human condition, all archetypes of human salvation revolve around self-transcendence, enlightenment, illumination, or reaching the non-dual. The sacrifice of the separate self, the image of Jesus on the cross (which is a bit misunderstood through idealism,) reflects the need to transcend our fractured nature; all pain and suffering arises from duality; the human condition can be seen as an unmanageable level of input that must be recrystallized at a higher level which more efficiently distributes this heightened energetic load. But what is the underlying cause to this bifurcation point? This signifies what’s missing in the current Integral framework, which reflects Integrals (current approach) inability to comprehend the dynamics of what we are discussing. This also represents why Integral, through its current application, will fail to reach a 'unifying' context for humanity, which is what our current human condition demands! We must realize and embrace an underlying cause to the tension visible throughout humanity.

There is a level of awareness that draws all aspects of this conclusion into unanimity. The archetype of human transcendence emerged in response to the evolution of self-reflective consciousness. Why? because it could. But a more thorough definition would be; because self-reflective consciousness allows us to be self-aware of being conscious, it also creates an inherent illusion of the separate self (duality.) These archetypes and myths emerge at the threshold of the self-reflective phenomenon grounding itself throughout existence; individually, culturally, and socially. (Please see my blog on the limitations of stage development methodology.)

The meaning behind the myth lies in the transcendence of our inherent human nature. The polarization of this nature, the thesis and the antithesis of human dynamics, has emerged to create the current tension throughout the human condition which demands synthesis. Stage development does not allow for this unifying view because it views humanity 'within' the stage development methodology, which inherently fails to recognize a universal nature in man and would probably be considered Green. By remaining loyal to this methodology, Integral is guilty of its own pathology (which makes perfect sense to the dialectic in progress.) By applying the fundamental nature of humanity to the Integral model (self-reflection predetermines AQAL) we expand the Integral worldview into a Unifying worldview; we now have a basis for unification! This Holistic-Integral consciousness is fully capable of conceptualizing a unifying model for humanity; a unifying social structure in the LR quadrant. Spirit now represents itself externally throughout form through a unified society which has the capacity of self-reflection. Self-reflective synthesis allows for the entire phylum of being to be the object of transparent awareness. Imagine what this would mean to a unified social context, this would define the true meaning of humanity.

This derives a new context for being which efficiently distributes this heightened energetic load. This load which forms the tension throughout the human condition is the result of the evolution of self-reflection. When the bifurcation point is compromised, synthesis throughout humanity is reached.

I honor any criticism, questions, or any other level of interest in regards to this discussion.

Rob Smith, the CEO of Integral Institute, has my proposition, “Human Unification through Self-Organization” but I am still waiting for a reply.

Namaste, B.

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Regarding The "Specialness" Of These Events & Narcissism

Posted April 4th, 2009 by Michael Garfield

It's important for me to point out here that finding a potential astrophysical dimension upon which we could establish an integral mesh basis for all of this pretty solidly defuses any narcissistic notions of this event's absolute specialness, at least for me. I mean, learning that your town is going to be submerged by a thousand-year flood just makes your life statistically unlikely - you can interpret that however you wish, and indeed there would be a myriad of interpretations from different altitudes and personality types. Likewise, learning that Earth is going through an apparently periodic change, the inflection point in a cycle thousands of years long, doesn't make us The Greatest Generation Ever or anything...it just makes us here right now. It's just a description of our age...in some ways, just as mundane as any other age. That we might bear witness to something unrecorded in human history is INCREDIBLY cool. But it doesn't make us any more the center of time than our grandparents.

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Could be nothing

Posted April 5th, 2009 by Brian OConnell in response to Regarding The "Specialness" Of These Events &...

The magnetic dipole of the earth could just flip with zero immediate effect on us and the earth. Some of the visions I have on this are that as the sun moves through the galactic equinox, the solar winds would be so great as to allow plasma flows to glow between planets, or/and just between the earth and the upper atmosphere. Maybe so much lightning that it is actually dangerous.

We do not know enough about how the earths electromagnetic field can change the crust of the earth with volcanic activity and earthquakes . Maybe a physical pole shift? But we do not know right now.

The effects of the magnetic field of the earth, on our subtle bodies makes alot of sense but needs experimental validation. Like the movie Solaris ( Loved it).

It could be any dramtaic event that brings in a new cultural myth for all of humanity to harmanize around. A global myth. We all would have experienced it and thats all thats needed to feel like a global family. A collective initiation.

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Great Stuff!

Posted April 7th, 2009 by Mike Redmer in response to Regarding The "Specialness" Of These Events &...

Michael and Brian,

I've only just watched the "Thunderbolts of God" and it has really rattled my conventional understanding of cosmology. Very interesting theory. It makes me think of the very thing you mentioned about Terence McKenna's TimeWave Zero Project and the whole "transcendental object at the end of time" thing. Could an electrical Cosmos account for evolutionary emergence? Some "attractant" at the end of time? Our brains are electromagnetic structures that have become self reflexive. If the Kosmos is "waking up" to Itself, it would make sense that It too would operate like the brain and be organizing at higher and higher levels or structures.

Also could an electrical Cosmos explain "Chi" and the wonderful healing powers it can produce:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtQXliHxdc

I also have read articles about the effects of magnetism on the Temporal lobes creating an "out of body" experience. Meaning the "sense of self" was expanded or not confined to this "bag of flesh" through the effects of magnetism on the brain. I agree with Michael, could a switching of the poles produce some kind of massive state change in humans?

I've been wondering about the whole 2012 thing as well, but it seems difficult to parse out what is pre-rational and what is trans-rational. Humanity's fixation on self annihilation has been quite common throughout our history. Is it because we have been close to the edge so many times before? On the one hand it seems extremely arrogant and silly to believe that we are the "last" humans before the "end of time". I think this way, partly because of all the apocalyptic stories I heard in Sunday school, which makes me very skeptical of that perspective. On the other hand, you see the rate of progress speeding up exponentially, time seems to be getting faster and faster, and the amount of people on this planet at an ethnocentric stage of development with access to modern technologies like nuclear weapons makes one think that something extraordinary must happen to avert self inflicted complete annihilation. But fun stuff to ponder. Thank you for all the links, very interesting stuff.

To Christopher,

I too have experienced some very weird, seemingly significant "planetary" dreams a couple years ago. One in particular stands out: I was on the earth looking up at the vast clear, blue sky. Then a dark, ominous energy came over me and the earth was totally quiet. All of a sudden I heard a huge creaking or groaning sound, the earth started to tilt and the intensity of realizing the implications of this radical shifting of the planet and my insignificance within the infinite Cosmos shot me out of my body and I woke up. This felt very real, more real than most of my dreams. Of coarse it probably just some aspect of my shadow coming out in a dream because I didn't feel loved enough by my mom or something. But interesting anyway. Cheers!

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Worlds in Collision

Posted April 8th, 2009 by Christophe Witz in response to Great Stuff!

Hi Mike,

tanks for sharing your story. Now I know that I'm not alone with this kind of bizarre dreams! Yes I second that feeling of insignificance towards such cosmic events. It is a very humbling experience indeed. And I think it's great that you openly admit the possibility of a personal shadow involved: that is possible, but it's not the only explanation. Or let's say we cannot explain it away with it being a mere indiviual's shadow. I think there is more to it.

My own dream involved an opening of the sky, with lighnings and fire, and then the appearence of another planet (could have been a twin earth) and then people panicked and ran away in all directions, including me. Then I woke.

After watching the 'Thunderbolts of the Gods' I became interested in Immanuel Velikovsky, a russian psychiatrist who learned psychoanalysis in Vienna from one Freud's personal students. He later wrote books about Egyptian mythology and Oedipus (very interesting topic, too!) and finally "Worlds in Collision" where he develops his theory that there was a time in the history of our Solar System when the planets' orbits were more chaotic than today, and possibly even collided. Carl Sagan explains the theory in short here. However, my working hypothesis is that these dreams represent a lost memory of humankind, concerning a time before the planet's orbits formed. Or something like that. I ordered the book and I hope to learn more about it all.

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Pre-rational/Trans-rational

Posted April 10th, 2009 by Michael Garfield in response to Great Stuff!

"I've been wondering about the whole 2012 thing as well, but it seems difficult to parse out what is pre-rational and what is trans-rational."

If it's not already obvious, me too! Sometimes I think Ken is the only one who knows, and he's not completely clear on this issue. As frequently as he says that altitude is not content-specific and that you can't tell just from topic where a person is "flying," he regularly dismisses certain topics as "pre-rational." For example, one of our mutual friends recommended to him Daniel Pinchbeck's book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. According to my friend, Ken refused to read it, asserting that it was pre-rational nonsense. But having not even read it, I'm not sure how he can make that very non-empirical claim.

One of the topics that Daniel explores in 2012 is the enigma of UFOs, which he wisely leaves a mystery at the end of the book instead of making any kind of sweeping declarations about them. In fact, he argues, the people who seem to learn the most from these mysterious phenomena - including crop circles, prophesies, and the like, an about which, he says, perhaps the most important common feature is that they remain so elusive to single-method inquiries - are the people who do not jumpt to conclusions but allow the mystery to carry them deeper into a transformative space, a more profound mind from which the problems might be self-solving. In fact Daniel spends the first few chapters of the book arguing pretty passionately for the restoration of myth as a complementary method to science (or, in more precise integral terminology, the correlative and complementary truth claims of hermeneutics and empricism) and says that our society now desperately needs to accept this kind of multimethodological and postmetaphysical relationship to reality. How is this pre-rational?

For me, the confusion lies in that trans-rational consciousness, at least in our culture, requires us to go back and reincorporate a lot of the pre-rational modes of understanding that we jettisoned as children or teenagers and no longer regard as valid ways to inquire into the world. Even Ken's earlier works indicate a kind of cyclical developmental trajectory for which post-rational stages share many of the characteristics of pre-rational stages, like leaping out of the water to catch the sun and then pulling it back down beneath the waves. Kegan talks about how mature postmodernism reopens itself to the unconscious...the difference being that now we no longer take the data at face value with a perspective of naïve realism but are willing to push and probe with empirical and systemic questioning.

Further confusing the issue is what I consider to be a woeful misapplication of the term "rational" to one specific level of development, when in fact every level has its own internally coherent kind of rationality, relatively speaking. It's hilarious, really, that we're all going around calling these or other ideas "irrational," something akin to saying, "I'm over here and you're over there, therefore you are incorrect, sir!" Don't get me wrong. Certain rationalities are CERTAINLY more inclusive and thus more applicable than others, connected to a greater number of worldspaces. But rationality is a quality of each worldspace, not something unique to a particular stratum of them.

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Being Human, there is nothing greater in the Universe!

Posted April 8th, 2009 by Brian Assam

All form exists in the passage between the ingress and the egress of the singularity of consciousness. This passage represents the 4th dimension; the space and time continuum.

What is unique to humanity is self-reflective consciosness, the subjective/objetive capacity which allows for ontological development and predetermines the AQAL framework. This subjective/objective awareness creates the 4th dimension, the time-space continuum which can only be experienced through humanity.

Humans represent the highest level of consciousness in form, or at least as far as we can perceive 'form' through the 3 dimensions. The 4th dimension is inherent to self-reflection, we live in it and this creates the illusion of time and space. In order to see this illusion we must transcend it through non-duality, or transparency, or presence. This allows us to recognize the 4th dimension, the space time continuum, and the 3 dimensions all as illusions. There is really no such thing as solid, finite 'objectivity,' there are only ephemeral structures of energetic exchange processes. Modern physics provides this answer but it does not explain why.

Self-reflection creates the self-separate illusion which restricts us from reaching Oneness; transparency (non-duality) transcends self-reflection; Self-reflection, which is the inherent nature of humanity, is the gatekeeper to the divine and the pinnacle of polarity through form. Upon transcending self-reflection we reach the singularity of consciousness. If we are discussing 'matter-energy,' then yes, human beings are the highest expression of consciousness in form. We are blessed, we just don't know it until we transcend this fractured state which is due to self-reflection; transcending this fractured state leads to the Divine. Being human (in form) allows us to experience the Divine (transcendence) and bring it back to form (inclusion.) This capacity allows us the potential to reach the ultimate, transparent awareness. Because humanity represents the capacity to experience the Divine, there is no greater expression of consciousness than being human.

All Love wants to do is share, but Love cannot be shared as One, therefore there must be form to share Love. The 'Whole' can be seen as consciousness, while the 'Parts' can be seen as form. Consciousness expresses itself through form and humans are the highest expression of consciousness; humans have the ability to experience absolute consciousness and bring it back to form. This is the greatest gift of form, humans are the threshold to the Divine.

The Integral view can be radically expanded when it accepts and embraces our fundamental nature of self-reflection. This ultimately allows us to represent spirit in all quadrants. A social system that flows according to the Divine would act as an Omega attractor for development. This social context is not only in order, it is currently manifesting itself throughout humanity.

Namaste, B.

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Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5

Posted April 24th, 2009 by Mike Gregory

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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Shake the Etch a Sketch and start fresh?

Posted May 23rd, 2009 by Devin Martin

I've long wondered if we are heading for another 'Dark Ages' as we move to ever more volatile and magnetically sensitve means of data storage. What will happen if the poles shift or the power drops and all that info is wiped or just slowly deteriorates? Especially interesting when you consider the extent to which we are unloading much of our memory to computers. In that sense human consciousness would largely be wiped, even if our access to the morphogenetic fields (where memory really is right?) is not so severly altered.

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I respectfully disagree

Posted December 17th, 2009 by Jim Lee

The sources that you cite lack rigor, they need to be repeatable.

2012

While I wish to respect all members who have joined the Integral Crowd, and yet remain to believe in 2012, all I can say is, let's wait till 2012.

But we have to honestly ask --just how many people who believed in the Apocalypse of 1999, as predicted by Nostradamus, later decided to hop on another apocalypse bandwagon called "2012?" What's the apocalypse after "2012?" When will we start learning from The March of Failed Predictions? And the cognitive dissonances that result?

Besides, the Mayans didn't even predict 2012 to be the end, it was a mis-translation! And yes, our earth gets aligned with the center of the galaxy in 2012, but that happens every year!

http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#Neil_deGra...

I think there are other more believable and investigation-worthwhile paranormalities than good-old 2012.

I really hope that Integral Framework, which is so sophisticated and so elegant, DO NOT get a reputation of being occult, New Age, or Irrational.

Respectful Regards to all,

Jim

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Science, Rigor, & Eschatology

Posted February 15th, 2010 by Michael Garfield in response to I respectfully disagree

Jim, I'm not sure if you read this, but I don't "believe in 2012," exactly...

I wrote this in order to defuse some of the New Age eschatological nonsense we've been suffering through for the last several years. I'm not claiming to verify mistranslated claims, and I am CERTAINLY not claiming that "the world will end in 2012," but suggesting that we are intuiting a legitimate natural phenomenon for which we have previously only been able to explain with pre-modern means.

And I don't know what exactly you mean by the sources being unverifiable. All of these citations lead to thorough and peer-reviewed scientific research. You may not like the way I've connected the dots, but you can't dismiss the independent conclusions of each researcher with hand-waving. I'm entirely open to being completely wrong about this if you can provide more rigorous criticism of the research I've mentioned here...

And anyway, what is science but a "March of Failed Predictions?"

"You're not supposed to be hard-headed in science; you're supposed to be ready for the things that you really believe in to turn out to not to be true, and you're supposed to ENJOY that." - Kary Mullis

PS - The integral community ALREADY HAS that reputation. Ken, as deeply indebted as I am to him for his guidance and wisdom, has repeatedly misrepresented the sciences and severely damaged the standing of AQAL integral in rational academia. This is why I got more involved with I-I in the first place, back in 2005...because it pained me to see science so poorly represented in the integral community, and integral theory so poorly represented in the sciences.

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can it be motivation for change

Posted February 17th, 2010 by david titterington in response to I respectfully disagree

Jim, I totally appreciate you adding this important perspective.

I like to think that the point of a 2012 dream and investigation is to motivate people to just "be the change." to make it happen (im talking about the people who want 2012 to be the end of the "uncivilized world" and deeply wish to move into a new age of enlightnement or whatever...."because the mayans said we'd go up in light now, and because we don't trust them to know, we better just do it ourselves and go up in light..."

So it's just motivational and thus has value. (which is why it is a product of the unfolding universe like everything else.....?)

2012 and our electromagnetic tangle with the sun is one of those ponderings that illumines a more connected self and a more interpenetrating/multidementinoal picture of reality, right? which can then act to change people into living a more harmonious life, one that preserves more diversity....

even if it's just a dream, its not totally useless,

is what i think.

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2012's Very Real Geomagnetic Strangeness & Its Potential Effect On Human Consciousness

Great post

2012 - The electric Apocalypse

Additionally...

Language of the spheres

Forest And Trees

re: Language of the Spheres

The Egyptians and Sound

Getting Back On Topic

collective < monad ?

Kymatica

Great video

Not exactly, not as I understand it.

'getting back to MG

The singularity of consciousness

Indeed

However...

And I fully agree

Interested

The meaning behind the Myth.

Regarding The "Specialness" Of These Events & Narcissism

Could be nothing

Great Stuff!

Worlds in Collision

Pre-rational/Trans-rational

Being Human, there is nothing greater in the Universe!

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5

Um....yeah.....

Wired...

Shake the Etch a Sketch and start fresh?

I respectfully disagree

Science, Rigor, & Eschatology

can it be motivation for change