This is a video I posted yesterday.
And a follow up to clarify certain points. Sorry, I guess the youtube AI choose the “hands up” screenshot for the preview image. I do talk a lot with my hands.
Here is a link to Joseph Gonzalez’s blog post on emergent information communication systems.
Here are two related links (here and here) in my blog about web3 tokens as a form of symbolic language.
Below are several maps related to topics discussed for reference / exploration.
J.G. Bennett’s “lifelong learning communities” based on Gurdjieff’s principles in Surrey, Gloucestershire, and West Virginia.
Peter Drucker, Claremont, management theorist, and megachurch promoter with Texas cable TV mogul Bob Buford.
Jay Daniels, emeritus professor of religion and advocate of process philosophy from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas not far from Petit Jean State Park and Winthrop Rockefeller’s ranch.
Macy Conferences and Tavistock in relation to research into the psychology of group dynamics, cybernetics, and cognition.
Tokenized creativity and social prescribing in the context of “pay for success” wellness metrics and public “health.”
Parallel community currencies and socio-technical systems.
Tokenized emotional cartography linked to crowd-sourced computation.
Tokenized prediction markets in public policy linked to distributed cognition / swarm intelligence.
Rise of second order cybernetics applied to the tokenized evolution of social systems under web3 spatial computing.
Aldous Huxley’s ties to psychedelics, human potential, mysticism, and the formation of AA.
Lots to chew on. Have at it!
Consider the entire yin/yang symbol.
An outer circle contains the yin/yang.
Perhaps this is what some refer to as a “circle of consciousness” that is a primal container or perhaps it is a boundary for a beyondness which is unlike this particular symbol/container. In affition, there may be more symbol options as well depending on the symbol designer’s point of view.
I personally see it as a boundary; prefering an beyondness of eternal infinity where creative expression (free will or choice) may exist as a response ability within an unbounded context.
I see that as sublime sustainable design. Anarchy.
I continue to speak of monism which it timeless and omnipresent and that we, in 3D reality are experiencing time and space and causality. This 3D space IS contained, but connected to the infinite through resonance. I am specifically speaking here about the difference between natural cycles and the framing Braden and others use centering an end times spiritual war of good versus evil on the way to end times.
Yes. I understand what you are speaking about here. I chose to introduce something that seems to be missing in the effort.
I see the creativity potential of any beyond to be potentially causal and necessarily driven by desire or will; not the pallet of spiritual approaches mentioned here. In fact, I consider these to be occulting our soul’s birthright.
I suggest that a supreme creator may not choose to be omnipresent. Further, i suggest that such a one may have criteria for communication or collaboration that is not addressed by any philosophy or religion or spiritual practice touched upon in materials referenced.
Any resonant connection is (in my view) ambient. I would like to discuss a more direct realm to realm connection. Or to merely give voice to that prospect.
There are many approaches touched on here to address the specifics referenced in this reply to comment. Choosing one of them perhaps has the potential to open a discussion that may move the entirety forward.
By all means, you do you. Once again, it seems impossible to engage in meaningful communications on the topics I am trying to share. Thanks for reaffirming my inadequacy for the task. If you want to make this about how you personally connect with God, that’s fine, but that was not the focus of this piece. This presentation was about the tokenization of spirituality to advance biohybrid human collective computation and how that potential end point fits into emergency apocalypse spiritual war narratives peddled by many, including Braden. By all means if you want to have a blog and suss out and share your spiritual practice feel free to do that. There’s room in the Internet for everyone. Just realize your engagement here reaffirms to me that hardly anyone is interested in understanding the implications of web3 token engineering on every aspect of our lives, the most intimate aspects. It makes me really, really frustrated. Maybe God is just playing mind games with me. Are we having fun yet?
Wow, Alison…are you on a roll!
There’s more backstory that’s worth knowing and sharing about Gregg, to connect the dots: I don’t know if you are aware of (and consciously left out) his connection to the Club of Budapest, but it’s significant. Founded by Ervin Laszlo 32 years ago, it is the social manipulation arm of the Club of Rome; the other arm is the Club of Madrid (the technology arm, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, prominent member is UN head Antonio Guiterres). Gregg (like Bruce) has been dubbed an “Evolutionary Leader” for many years; the Club fuels his New Age evangelism. Unlike Bruce, Gregg has marginal credentials…but he is in the top row of 50+ along with Ervin on the 22 December post on https://www.facebook.com/theclubofbudapest/
Braden and others in Laszlo’s stable of “Evolutionary Leaders” appeal to a certain level of consciousness that wants to believe in unicorns and the notion that we are headed into a Golden Age and (like Winnie the Pooh, bear of little brain), that “Everything’s all right, really.” Many are not long on critical thinking and are e.g. heavily invested in crypto without understanding the deeper implications. They essentially promote the values of a New World Order…including One World Government and One World Religion.
I’m all for what you termed “faith practices” and I’ve had an Eastern practice for 50+ years, but I believe cultural and religious diversity is healthy, and I’m very concerned about the possibility of another nam-shub that results in an amalgamation of religions, i.e. bow down to the beast or you’re locked out of life. I’m reminded of your post where once “the whole world, the people as one, to Enlil in one tongue gave voice”…until En-ki’s spell set humanity apart. By some accounts En-ki by one name or another is alive and well, an integral part of the values inversion we are presently experiencing. Your comment then was, “…we have continued to fragment ourselves not only by language, but by many other aspects of identity”, and that becomes more evident by the day. We are definitely being played by a level of intelligence we don’t fully comprehend.
Love concert organ—Bach, Buxtehude, Widor, St. Saens, Poulenc—and your analogy of the pipes fits nicely. John Dryden’s 17thC poem Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, “Through all the compass of the notes it ran, / The diapason closing full in man” is high praise for humanity. I have to smile when I think of the nightly chirping of crickets in summertime…you may have heard the tape of the chirping slowed down, it sounds like a heavenly choir. The crickets sing in harmony with one voice…it would be amazing if (like the Coke ad from the 60s, “I’d like to teach the world to sing) we humans could as well. https://theamericanscholar.org/on-st-cecilias-day/
My background is organisation behaviour and cross-cultural psychology; since 1980 my hobby has been bioenergetic medicine, of which flower essence therapy–”frequency medicine”–is one modality. Post-retirement from university teaching 16 years ago I started a free clinic here in New Zealand to help people with emotional issues, and the flowers have become my teachers.
Your post got my neurons firing, there are a dozen or more thoughts I could share on points you made, but will stop here. Thanks for daring to share at a level that stimulates!
Thank you Bill. I didn’t do a deep dive on him, just skimmed the surface. What I wanted to offer was the sense that you have to understand a person’s context when you listen to them, and that should inform how you engage with the content they share. My main point was questioning the “spiritual war” narrative as a driver into the tokenized spiritual practice net. But thank you so much for leaving such an extensive comment that shows you are actually hearing me and thinking openly about the things I am trying to unpack. Ervin’s son Alexander was a co-founder of Global Education Futures with Pavel Luksha, so I have been exploring their connections for some time. Attached are two maps you may find interesting. I would love to reconnect at some point. It is interesting that I feel called to plant a flower garden here in Hot Springs, but that is what I’m going to do. Listening to someone talk about Goethe’s ideas about the soul of plants resonating with the souls of people is very cool and something had I not taking this winding path to increased awareness I would have found hard to take seriously at an earlier point in my life. Email me sometime: timpsila@protonmail.com
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Tokenization of anything is a repulsive notion to me, particularly spirituality. I do see how it is a piece of the emergency apocalypse spiritual war narrative puzzle, the Gorgon that has the world mesmerized—but beyond deepening my own practice, being prepped and refusing to even sniff the cheese in the mousetrap, there’s not much I can do to change the course of events. I think the wisdom of Eastern philosophy offers the best approach: Confucianism for the good times, Taoism for the hard times, Buddhism for when you die. We’re approaching hard times at a rate of knots and it’s not clear what humanity will look like at the end of this decade. There are many tempting cheeses in the NWO fromagerie, but they’re all in hair-trigger mousetraps. The Braden-type “emergency apocalypse spiritual war narratives” typically heighten anxiety and fail to provide useful knowledge that protects.
Gregg Braden even promotes Blockchain:
“Blockchain Technology: The Foundation of a Truly Free Society
When we contribute to the world by offering information, products and services, we are rewarded with money, which for thousands of years has been controlled by centralized sources of authority… until now. In this module, Gregg will explore in simple terms how “blockchain” technology works and is able to provide decentralization of money, unprecedented security, transparency, and personal financial freedom, while also making banking available to the world’s estimated 1.7 billion “unbanked” population.”
https://stream.humanitysteam.org/pages/5-year-guide