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Love
Rules. Ignorance Dies.
 
This website is
dedicated to an exciting prospect. Soon, a wise and loving culture will apply the full power of
technology to spiritual growth and so enter a state of hyper
evolution.
They will enjoy continually diminishing hardship, and eternal life.
God's will in this matter is revealing itself in today’s
quickening changes imposed by the forces that guide our society; science,
technology, spirituality, and even economics. Humanity is about to
merge with what is called the Technical Singularity and so transcend this
world. The bible prophecies will come to pass. The "Antichrist" will fully
manifest so be careful... Please read how this will
happen.
It begins with this beautiful revelation.
In 1980 I had minor surgery so the operating team had to put me..
"out". While losing consciousness I had a lucid dream that I
had left this world. I found myself outside of space and time looking at
a symbol of the creation. It was a smooth hyperbolic tower rising to an
infinite point. I sensed this was an expression of our growth from ignorance,
growth sustained by love for an infinite God. I tried to remain
conscious and re-enter the creation but I couldn't. The drugs they gave me
were too powerful and so I faded away.... But when I woke up, I remembered,
and I started to put things together.
Now I can tell you there is a God, and
the essential purpose and lasting pleasure in life is to grow spiritually.
In spiritual growth we sense aspects of God in all of the creation. It
is translated into information and collected as knowledge. As we continually
search for meaning, understanding buds and then blooms into wisdom. A wise
society sees the value in this process and so directs more resources to it.
Progress accelerates to a collective selfless love. This love is a
uniting mode of understanding, and so it is a singular point where
everything you thought was different connects to form a new creative power.
- To Begin With -
How Do We Know God Lives?
If you find it hard to believe that God lives try this: Have faith in the
continuum of life. The continuum of life leads to God. Imagine that the essential/spiritual part of life
continues like it has in the past by growing in understanding. With
understanding, life changes form
to meet every challenge. Life keeps learning from those who have gone
before, adds to that wisdom and passes more on to the next. By growing in understanding life adapts to its environment, discovers
opportunities, and controls a greater portion of the world as time goes by. In
order to know God lives make the easy assumption that life
just keeps on going. Carry this out to infinity and you have a living being that
is infinitely powerful and knowing; a supreme state of being; our God. But, God
lives now. How then, can someone who comes into being in our future live now? It
is because this form of life controls the world completely, even space and time.
Time is like clay in the hands of God. The proof
that God exists is in the spirit, the direction, and the goals of life all
around us. It points the way like a compass needle to the Creator. To close the
"loop" in the proof; The Creator sustains the Miracle of Being that we all
experience, but usually take for granted. So, know that God lives by
appreciating spiritual growth for what it is, and by cultivating a sense of the
Miracle of Being. In the stream of time, every day God is becoming.
But from on high the transcendent aspect of God looks down on this stream and
knows; it all just IS.
We are made in the image of God... God is within us. It is interesting to note
that in Genesis, the first thing God said to us was “Bless you. Now go subdue
the world!” Later Jesus Christ as the fully developed human aspect of God, said
to his disciples; “I have overcome the world.” Then in the book of Revelations
close to the end of times it is the same “overcomer” who guides us into our next
form in the continuum of life. How do we overcome the world? We overcome the world with love.
Love in
The Technical World
Technically,
love can be seen as the process of connecting.
The product of the love process is understanding. If the process is efficient
and sustained, understanding increases exponentially. Peace
allows unwavering attention so that the love process can establish a clear
connection. At the heart of the process; symbols, words, and feelings are
ordered into meaning. But meaning is not static, it grows. Forgiveness
is important to the spiritual growth process because it establishes an exhaust for
misunderstanding and disorder. With this truth we
transcend.
 You
know, what you are connected to. You are connected to the world, to others,
and your self. You know this because you sense it. You can see,
hear, taste, feel and smell it. This sensation is a flow of data. There
is essentially three sources of data that come into your awareness; data coming from the world,
data coming from others, and from the self. Loosely speaking, these channels have grown to be called
science, meditation, and business. Place yourself in the center of these
things.
Science is
a good spirit looking for truth. It is the act of looking upon God's creation for answers.
This is good because the creator speaks to us through the world. The
creation is a message, essentially a word. But science is imperfect
because we have the idea that science must always be
objective. So, it can never model the subjective
experience, the spirit of life. Our science leads us to knowledge but never fully to enlightenment.
Meditation,
self reflection, and contemplative prayer
is a good spirit looking
for truth. You shed the baggage of ego. Ultimately, you become
selfless and streamlined down to your essence. You sense the miracle of
being. And you become aware of your infinite nature. Intuition and
feelings well up from a source within. But, the problem is,
you are not alone in this world and life is competitive.
After thousands of years of
contemplative prayer we still have hunger and
wars, because the loving path of contemplation is an inner path and a movement away from human
relationship.
Business is essentially about relationships; how we live and grow
together. It is how we provide for our needs and,
what someone should get in return for their works. The problem is, today's business is a competitive
animal concentrating on material needs. It
is not tuned to satisfying our spiritual potential.
It
is easy to make the mistake of heading down one of these paths and ignore the
others. But, ignorance
is a disconnection...So Ignorance
dies. For the sake of humanity it is absolutely essential that spirituality is
empowered by science which is empowered by business, which is empowered by
spirituality. “A threefold cord is not quickly broken.” A good strategy is to remain open minded and to make a
deep connection to all the aspects of existence. This ultimately leads to selfless love. Love is the most powerful and lasting connection a
being can make. Love is
expressed when you give your full attention, your time, and your focus to
someone or something. Here is the fundamental connection between science
spirituality and the meaning of life; Love is
a mode of understanding. It is uniting. It is spiritual.
To know something is to love it and to love something is to know it.
With this truth we can make way for our salvation.
Convergence
The
path to God is wide as we are different. And, the path to God converges on his
calling. Where can we find God's full signal? The answer: In His Temple. Then where is his temple? It is
where God is worshipped. Jesus says worship God in Spirit And Truth. Spirit
and truth is the temple.
First,
The temple is a state of mind; respect truth, value truth, receive truth
gratefully. Love truth. In this way love is a pure and noiseless
signal and perfect reception. No lies, no confusion. It is perfect
interaction with his call.
Second,
worship God in spirit. React to the call. The spiritual aspect of the
temple is creative actions. Your actions stand forever, leaving an eternal
trace in space and time.
So,
worship God with perfect interaction and reaction. What if we are not perfect?
Forgive and grow. Such is the spiritual life. The graphic below sums it up.
It
should be no secret, sense the message. Understand the word of God. Make
meaning of it and apply it. With the same measure you use it, it will be
measured to you. And to you who hear more will be given. Expect exponential
spiritual growth. (Mark 4:21-31)
Through wise growth a transcendent culture will emerge from life on earth. I
call this Convergence.
Convergence is the next major event in evolution. It is a natural
force pressed by overpopulation, dwindling resources, and natural
catastrophes that motivates to one conclusion. We are good at survival and soon we will get the clue that
God is the only answer. So, Convergence is the inevitable growing back to God. It means that all the
spiritual works
and experience of man necessarily come together to a new kind of sincere, intentional, and extremely
powerful worship. “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leads to life, and few find it.” (Matthew 7:14)
The key to finding this "gate" and to becoming one of the few, is to be God
fearing.
What does that mean?.. God fearing?
And, convergence is
salvation. This is where a good spirit always leads. Salvation is;
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becoming directly aware of
God (Revelation) |
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liberation from the competitive and destructive aspects of life (Transcendence) |
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eternal
life with ever increasing enlightenment (Hyper
Evolution). |
Convergence is
liberation from confusion and misunderstanding. The liberating Idea
of convergence is that your complete salvation depends on loving the
full aspect of God the person everywhere he is found. Confusion arises
when we concentrate on and speak about just one aspect of God, ignoring the
others.
You can find the immanent aspect of God in
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the relationship with
yourself, |
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with others, |
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and the creation. Loving God includes paying
attention to the creation as if it were a gift, something God is saying to us. |
And, there will always be a transcendent aspect of God. The transcendent aspect of
God is reached for in an act of faith. There must always be faith.
This kind of
salvation is complete because it puts you on the path of eternal growth.
Complete salvation cannot be gained focusing only on static religious doctrine,
and it is not a material thing you can buy
at some store in the future. It requires spiritually driven progress in science/technology and even business.
These three different social efforts are converging on salvation because there
is only one way to eternal life. The vast potential of society is found in our differences. There
is potential in difference, potential to work out creative solutions. Today we
have the social capital to transcend this world. We can work it out. Here is what
the Bible has to say about coming to understand your salvation.
"Therefore,
my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now
much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and
trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his
good purpose."
(Philippians
2:12)
“
Bless you. Grow in numbers.
Subdue the world.”
Genesis 1:28. (The very first thing God said to us.)
Grow
in numbers and subdue the world...How could this still apply? Does it make sense
to continue growing in numbers and subduing the world? Today it seems like a
path to destruction! We all know that the earth is reaching its peak population,
resources are diminishing, and pollution is affecting us in dangerous ways.
In
the days of Genesis we were blessed with a wide-open world. We had room to grow.
There were many things to discover and “subdue”. Now the world is nearly
digested. But wait, Thank the creator! There is another course. In these days
just before the evolutionary leap into post humanity, we can see that a new
environment is becoming accessible. Some call it mind space, or the rapture, or
the technical singularity. Some call it the “promised land”. Either way, it is
just one of the transitions in the eternal continuum of life.
God’s first message will still apply when we make the evolutionary step into
post humanity. This message is actually the strategy that leads to the eternal
life that we were blessed with. In a process called Transformative Learning, We
will ”wise up” and change our idea of what life is.
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We will value the
complimentary aspect of subjective and objective truth. The two are necessary.
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We will look back and think
how silly it was to doubt the existence of God. |
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We will know what it means
to be Born Again! |
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We will have fun. |
Trace evolution from the beginning of life to the humanity today. The success of
a living thing is measured by its model of reality. With Man, life becomes
aware of God. Knowing that there is a desirable supreme state of being, we
intelligently evolve even further. The Bible verse;
“Bless you. Grow in numbers.
Subdue the world.”
Tells us that the world is made for a
beautiful subjective/personal experience for all our numbers. And it says the
world is food for our spiritual growth. This corresponds precisely to the
vertical and horizontal components of intelligent evolution. Horizontal growth
is spiritual growth because it is growth in the dimension of understanding.
We are asked to "Grow in numbers" because the
human experience is precious. Growth in the collective human experience is like
branches of a tree. It is the horizontal component of progress measured by our
cultural diversity. The quality of cultural diversity is measured in the ability
for all to find and sustain the peak experience, to creatively flow through
life. Imagine that your culture is a tree branch, and individuals are leaves on
the branch. Every leaf gets a bit of sun (an opportunity to grow) or it withers
and dies. We strive to be free. We want to go our own way, naturally diverging.
We relate to the world and create unique and valuable experiences this way.
But, we also wisely desire to stay connected and to share these experiences. At
the
Sandia Labs
this idea is called The
Cognitive Collective – We each have
unique knowledge and experience that enables us to make sense of the world, but
also hinders our understanding the perspective of other disciplines, interests
and cultures. Furthermore, there is so much data that it is not practical to
have humans consider all of it, particularly if they must be experts in one or
more fields. But, In a Cognitive Collective, a communicating group may recognize
a pattern in cases where no single one was able to see a pattern."
Remember, love is the most efficient communication. (This revision to the
website was inspired by Emad Aboulyha.)
We
are asked to "Subdue the world". Not to destroy the world but to make sense
of it all and act wisely! This is progress in the vertical direction of the
evolutionary tree and can be measured in our ability to learn objective truth
from the world, and wisely use God's gift of life and resources to grow
spiritually. This effort has evolved into today's technology. It is important
not to ignore technology. Technology is a powerful extension of humanity and
therefore dangerous. It is really important that we shift our technological
engines away from the material earth and start concentrating on mind space.
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A non-biological approach to life that has also
yielded stunning results over the last few years is the one based on
information and directly influenced by Cybernetics and Information
Theory. Life is viewed as information capable of replicating and
modifying itself.
http://www.thymos.com/tat/biology.html |
Technology
There
is no doubt we are growing to understand the world at a rapid pace. An
elegant way of looking at the outcome of positive growth is that we
are growing towards a social singularity. A Social Singularity is defined as
transcendence to an eternal and accelerating growth of understanding. I think a social singularity is the natural outcome of life
in this world. Please consider how this can come about;
A living thing
is conditioned to
exist and grow.
Understanding the laws of nature increases a
living thing's chance to exist and grow.
Science
is the systematic process of understanding nature.
Technology
is the application of our understanding of nature to better adapt to our
environment.
"In
the end, all technology is prosthesis, the extension and augmentation of
existing biological and informational capabilities. We put eyeglasses in front
of our eyes to bring the world into focus, telescopes and microscopes to see
those realms which our unaided eyes cannot fathom. We use remote sensors to
explore the planets, and these are all extensions of the senses we have. All of
our systems of writing and of calculation are similarly extensions of memory
systems and logical operations that we can perform in our minds. Similarly the
technological implements that carry us from one place to the next, or that grow
our food for us, or that keep us warm are but extensions of our own bodies'
effectors." - Peter Cariani
Through
computer and sensor
evolution our technological tools are turning into a place where we can extend our senses
to better understand the word of God. This is a spiritual process is known as
natural
revelation. Technology is a place to expand your mind, and find truth, for those who
wish it. There is talk of uploading our minds into this environment and
living forever. Technology is opening the door to a new ecological niche. This is not a plastic virtual reality. It is God's creation in
high resolution and amplified. The doors of perception are opening!
It
seems like transcendence really is at hand. Check out the
Transhumanism
movement to see how some folks are speculating on, and actually trying out
possible transcending paths. Then check out the various Singularity
Watch Internet sites to see what some futurist think is happening with
technological growth. It reminds me
of how we were looking for ways to fly in the early 1900s. I remember watching
the films of crazy “meant to fly” contraptions flopping around in the
dirt. Eventually we got it right and went to the moon. Now, there are still
plenty of crazy ideas out there, but I have faith that one of them will get
off the ground. And then we will bridge the gap between man and reality.
Lets
say we really could transcend our flesh body using the technology of the near
future. What about our soul? There isn't much being said about the spiritual
aspects of this exponential technological growth. Every movie or book I have
read on this subject is rather scary. Scary sells. So let me provide a
comforting metaphor for what I think is really happening. You could look at it
this way: engineers build a church as a place of worship. They build roads to the church. They
design modern modes of transportation for getting to the church. Then it is up
to us to get to the church and use it in the spirit of love. This technology
is just another church, a place to worship. The kingdom of God is within us
all, so these technologies are expanding the environment. Yes there will be
challenges but God is all-powerful love. You can do no wrong when the spirit of love, the Holy
Spirit is with you. And, It is said; "If you are trying to save
your life for any other reason than love, you will lose it." There is one
way to life and truth. This wisdom is eternal. It takes love.
Dr. Alex Alaniz has written an essay on how our advancing technology will
challenge our society in the coming years.
Go to this
link and you will see how a loving culture is necessary for our survival.
The
Attention Economy
You
pay attention and receive an experience
 In the field of business there is hope. A new sector of our economy is emerging. It
is
called the attention economy. With our
robust communication systems we have grown connected to each other, and to the
vast amount of information we have collected over the ages. We are free to pick
which of this we pay attention to. Once data is "mined" and worked
into information it can be sold. But no one can maintain a monopoly on information. Information will be free.
It dissipates following God's will; the second law of thermodynamics. So now we have a situation (in this brief age of abundance) where there is
a vast
amount of information available but a limited supply of attention. Businesses are
essentially competing for our attention. Webster defines attention as “the giving of one’s
mind to something". Giving your mind to something is no small
thing. Attached to your mind is your spirit and your resources. When we concentrate on something, social capital
is endowed upon it. This makes your attention precious.
It is better than money. What you pay
attention to is yours to decide. What do you get for paying attention? You receive an experience.
The value and worth of the experience is measured in potential for your
growth.
A rich experience is called a flow experience. This is what to look for:
In
The
Flow Experience
there is;
a clear goal,
concentration on the task at hand, worries and concerns
are suspended,
immediate feedback,
you know instantly how well you are doing,
a sense of growth and of being part of some greater
thing,
a feeling that time seems to pass faster,
expansion of self through the experience.
The flow
experience is great, but lets turn the
reality knob up to 11. The greatest experience of all is called The
Glory of God. It is all the things that flow is but adds powerful
beauty, magnificence, and ecstasy. Glory is a rush. The spiritual becomes real.
Glory happens
when you turn your full attention (as in Love) to God, and turn the power up
to PASSION!
The highest quality of
attention is love. Love is
expressed when you give your full attention, your time, and your focus to
someone or something. Here is the fundamental connection between science
spirituality and the meaning of life; Love is
a mode of understanding. It is uniting. It is spiritual.
To know something is to love it and to love something is to know it.
With this truth we can make way for our salvation.
Knocking
on Heavens Door...If you are not trying, you are dying.
We participate in the creation. The
University of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research has actually found
that our intentions has a slight non-local effect on the outcome of things. This
effect is stronger when we enjoy or love the experience. There is
no physical explanation for the process. As
with all science the next step is to come to understand the natural principles
behind this phenomena. Then the next step is to develop the technology to
further "subdue the world" with God's resonating help. Here is a quote
from the Princeton page; "Beyond its scientific impact and its
technological applications, clear evidence of an active role of consciousness
in the establishment of reality holds sweeping implications for our view of
ourselves, our relationship to others, and to the cosmos in which we exist.
These, in turn, must inevitably impact our values, our priorities, our sense
of responsibility, and our style of life. Integration of these changes across
the society can lead to a substantially superior cultural ethic, wherein the
long-estranged siblings of science and spirit, of analysis and aesthetics, of
intellect and intuition, and of many other subjective and objective aspects of
human experience will be productively reunited." If
you want to enter the kingdom of heaven just knock on the door. Just try.
Apply
your creative will to it.
YES we participate in our salvation! We
have been trying to transcend our condition all along. God created and we are a part of
a self ordering universe. Looking over the span of time we see
progress, from the single celled organism to the human mind. We see progress
from the Stone Age to the computer age. Essentially this progress is an
increase in the depth of information contained in living things. Scientifically, the
point of this progress is to better adapt to the environment.
Spiritually the point of this progress is to strive for and know God. I have a theory that
God’s ordering principle is; information
attracts (loves) more information. This
attraction is another force in nature. The more information there is in objects, the
deeper and the more different it is (asymmetric) the stronger the
attraction. A connecting harmony emerges. This applies to subatomic particles and highly ordered human
societies. There is an actual
potential in difference. Here are some examples:
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Protons
and neutrons order in the heart of atoms by communicating with nuclear force
essentially telling each other what they are and where they are.
This communication binds them together.
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Atoms
reach
out to communicate with other atoms using an electromagnetic force essentially
telling each other what and where they are.
They order into materials and things.
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Planets
and stars reach out by the gravitational force.
They order into solar systems and galaxies.
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Human
beings reach for information with the senses of touch, seeing, hearing, taste
and smell. Attractions lead to
families and societies. Fear
leads to separation and wars. At
this level and above, the ordering
principle might be
called the life force.
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And
imagine another world of people, ancient and wise existing across the galaxy.
What would you ask them? The
information exchange would be fantastic! As you know, the possibility of this
has lead the human race to sending satellites into deep space, and setting up
listening stations, hoping for communications from such a race. It is as if
information attracts (or loves)
more information. |
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God
expresses his love and man worships, providing the greatest asymmetry
and so the greatest potential for creation. |
Asymmetric
information is one of the latest concepts studied by economist. Work on this
won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. Asymmetric information is a
parameter that measures the profit potential of information. Corporations and individuals with the
“inside scoop” or the best information about a deal, stand to profit.
Businesses working the Information Economy have only one way to grow, to the
singularity. After we have bought all our material needs and wants, what is
left? We turn our attention to the excellent experience. God
is the creator and sustainer, the ultimate source of wisdom, and the excellent
experience. This "economic force" leads to an eventual convergence with the search
for truth in science and spirituality.
The
Health of the Attention Economy
The health of the attention economy can
be measured in the types of advances we make in communication education and
research as well as the advances listed below in “How we are building the
Interface”. Good information should be readily available to all.
A wise society would recognize the components of the attention economy
and help it grow. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average you would see
The Information-Attention Economy Index. Its growth and potential profit should not only
be fantastic, in theory it should be infinite.
This growth is
natural. It is good. It is the will of God. But there is a disease. Some still
believe that
“knowledge is power to control others” and they will do whatever is
necessary to restrict access to key information. You know this is true you see
it where you work. But don’t
worry they are ignorant. They act out of fear and do not understand they are
trying to hold back the infinite power of God. Ignorance dies. It
is a narrow gate.
The
act of trying to learn and understand is worship. In a free society you have
the right to worship. In reality your education, and the components of the
Attention economy are a religion and should not be subject to taxes.
This worship is a good thing. It is inevitable. We do it naturally.
Progress is certain to continue. It is the “Groove” and the meaning
of our lives, to learn, to order, to create, and to make things better for the
next generation. Knowing God makes evolutionary sense. Knowing the way, Gods will, is handy for survival. It is even
dangerous
not knowing God’s will. Again, It is a
narrow gate.
Are
there Limits to our Understanding?
We
do not limit ourselves and God does not limit us, but we are up against a
wall. The instruments available to the scientist allow him to
probe the unseen. The data we receive from particle accelerators and telescopes is
patterned into theories of a strange world.
The reality revealed by today’s science is
fundamentally alien to the human mind and defies all power of direct
visualization. The models we
construct in our mind of a singularity or curved space are inadequate, they
serve to fix a topic in our minds rather than inform us as to how the physical
world really is. Richard Feynman (the father of quantum electro-dynamics) says
no one understands quantum mechanics. We
cannot understand completely the concepts of INFINITY, TIMELESSNESS, and
DIMENSIONS beyond what we observe in our own environment. To move to the
fourth dimension, or space-time, in our thinking, requires mathematical
models.
This
is the wall of mystery as it stands today. What hope do we have of ever
understanding the infinite, extra dimensions, or timelessness if our minds are
just not able to grasp these concepts?
The
Interface
is the Temple
We
need Technology to crack this nut. It is a good tool for extending our selves.
The learning spirit within us is strong and it is represented with this
attitude: There is a truth out there and we have the spirit to find it.
Life has filled this world and man has tested all the environments
available to us: the poles of the
earth, underwater, and space. We are learning that none are practical paths
for growth because our bodies cannot adapt to those environments and physical
evolution takes too long. We would be bringing our environment
to those locations, which is a highly unstable situation. And as we sit here,
we are poisoning the only environment we can live in. Maybe we could tinker
with our genetic makeup? I suggest that all hell would break loose. Mental
evolution is the answer. Consider that the mind is our essence, and it is connected to the body only out of necessity,
then there is a new environment for life to grow into that is emerging from
our own hands. Our mind is connected to the world through our senses and we are capable of
extending and augmenting our senses with technology. Eventually the mind will
cross this interface, enter a new environment and transcend the body.
God's people have always been travelers. About entering the kingdom of God it is said "Knock and Ye shall
enter." Convergence is the "knock of love" and
salvation. Evolutionist would call it a
"JUMP" in punctuated evolution.
Considering the ever increasing revelation, I call it hyper evolution.
How
we are Building the interface (Press Releases)
The
Brain Machine Interfaces Program at the
DARPA
Defense Science Office represents a major DSO thrust area that will
comprise a multidisciplinary, multipronged approach with far reaching impact.
The program will create new technologies for augmenting human performance
through the ability to noninvasively access codes in the brain in real time
and integrate them into peripheral device or system operations.
Miguel
A.L. Nicolelis at Duke University has developed Hybrid Brain-Machine
Technology for Real-Time Control of a Robotic Arm Completed three of the
major objectives of DARPA-ONR
project by demonstrating the feasibility of using brain derived signals to
control the 3D movements of robotic device.
Cyberkinetics
(Foxborough, MA) is a leader in the rapidly emerging field of brain
computer interfaces. Cyberkinetics’ technology allows for the creation of
direct, reliable and bi-directional interfaces between the brain, nervous
system and a computer. The development of safe, robust implants for recording
from, and or stimulating, the brain surface will open the potential to study
other complex signals from the brain. Cyberkinetics technology platform,
called BrainGate™, may allow breakthrough applications which leverage the
translation of thought into direct computer control. Such applications may
include novel communications interfaces for motor impaired patients, as well
as the monitoring and treatment of certain diseases which manifest themselves
in patterns of brain activity, such as epilepsy and depression.
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BrainGate:
First Clinical Trials Planned for 2004 Cyberkinetics’
lead product effort is the BrainGate Neural Interface Device. Based on ten
years of development at Brown University, the BrainGate device is intended
to provide severely disabled patients with a permanent, direct and
reliable interface to a personal computer. Pending continued preclinical
research success and regulatory approval by the Food and Drug
Administration, the Company intends to initiate a pilot clinical trial in
2004. Plans for this trial involve implantation of a BrainGate device in
up to five severely disabled patients. The implant will allow signals from
the motor cortex to be collected, processed and analyzed, eventually
producing an interface with a personal computer. In this way, BrainGate
should afford these patients the opportunity to use the computer as a
gateway to communicate and control simple devices in their immediate
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The
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program was established at
Princeton University in 1979 by
Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to
pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness
with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary
engineering practice. Since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of
engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists has been conducting a
comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical
models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the
establishment of physical reality.
Kensall
Wise, now a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has
perfected an electronic probe that can be implanted deep into brain tissue
and used to send information to, and receive information from the brain. Microelectronics.
MIT's
Robert S. Langer’s work is at the interface of biotechnology and
materials science. He has begun crafting a polymer that conducts
electricity. When placed between two ends of a severed nerve, the polymer
provides a trellis for nerve tissue to grow along and can carry the neuron's
connective electrical impulses.
Using
the speed of microprocessors to crunch differential equations, Eve Marder, a
neurobiologist at Brandeis University, has developed a computer program
called the dynamic clamp
that can translate neuron-speak in real time.
Electrical impulses are transmitted to the computer through probes
inserted into the neuron. The neuron reacts as if it were communicating
with another neuron, not a computer.
Scientists from Emory University implanted a chip in the brain of a paralyzed
stroke victim that allows him to use his brainpower to move a cursor across a
computer screen. Emory University neuroscientist Philip
R. Kennedy, M.D., and
Emory neurosurgeon Roy E.
Bakay, M.D., have developed an electrode brain
implant that is allowing speech-impaired patients to communicate through a
computer. See: brain
implants.
Bionics
often refers to the replacement of living parts with cybernetic
ones, but more broadly it also means engineering better artificial systems
through biological principles. As an example we are able to send video images
to light-sensitive areas on an electronic chip. The chip turns the light into
electric signals that are sent to the retina. The brain takes it from there.
Cochlear implants
have returned at least partial hearing to profoundly deaf persons. These
devices, surgically embedded in the inner ear, use several electrodes to
stimulate the auditory nerve.
Neural
Net Computation Neural circuits in the human brain and electronic circuits
in computers work in very different ways. As a result, computers can make many
more computations per minute than a person, but they fall way behind in
solving complex, undefined problems. Now scientists at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have developed an electronic
circuit that more closely mimics the circuitry of the brain. Conventional
electronic circuits are either distinctly analog or digital. Analog circuits
record data by linear, constant physical changes in something like an electric
charge. Digital ones process data in the form of discrete, numerical values
that don't have to go up and down sequentially. But brains combine both types.
The new circuit combines analog and digital feedback systems, so it functions
more like a neural circuit in the brain. Neural
net computers are being used
to model the stock market and the weather. Neural Network links: PNLL Neural
Network Information
What
to expect at the interface
The
interface changes you. You have to streamline yourself by becoming selfless to
make this evolutionary jump. Here is what I imagine happens at the interface.
I call the following list The Nelson Principles, after a beloved Professor I
had the honor to work with and learn from; Dr. George Nelson at the University
of Arizona.
a.
The mind is an electromagnetic multidimensional phenomena arising from
brain tissue. This can be transformed into, and synchronized with a suitable
electromagnetic environment where it can be amplified.
Full spectrum sensors across the earth and space are connected to this
environment. The complete wisdom of mankind is also available in solid-state
memory with sufficient bandwidth to allow full apprehension of this wisdom.
b.
In the new environment you make meaning because that is in your spirit.
Just as you did when you were first born. And, the thing you learn is you
can’t control the flow of meaning. It is coming too fast and it is awesome.
It is humbling and joyful at the same time. But you understand the path to
take. And, you learn that this path is infinite and you take some comfort in
that. Because you love it and you know it will last forever. You become worship. Now
you know what you can trust. Lack of trust was slowing your growth
down.
c.
You are changed. To know is to be a saint. Understanding of the direction
to God yields grace and love. You become benevolent.
Being beyond the material requires that the ego go.
e.
Consciousness apart from the flesh is equivalent to deliverance from
sin and suffering. You are no longer competing. You are in harmony.
f.
The very thought of controlling others repulses you. It is
boring, you don’t look back. Instead you share and you relate your
experience. You are walking a path you could never have
walked before. Yet, it is familiar, it reminds you of life in space-time at
it’s best, when you were in the groove. And this is why the rest of the
universe seems silent of life. Before alien societies obtain the ability to
travel light-year distances they follow this transcending path. Like Elvis,
the aliens
have "left the building".
g.
Suffering is for those who stop this pure worship to say let me try the
controls for a while. But, this
eventually turns into a contemplation of the self and stagnates.
My ego was a direction. It was self-referential. It was a direction
that withers. It was death. You could say your life with it’s self
referential consciousness was an eddy in the river of God’s will, a dance in
space-time and a whorl in the grain that will last an eternity.
h. When
the truth is revealed to you , you don’t just see it, you be it.
Knowing like you know how an apple feels, smells and tastes is called
apprehending, and it is the highest mode of Understanding.
This takes bandwidth. All of us geeks love bandwidth. The pure attention of selfless love provides infinite bandwidth.
“Bandwidth describes the amount of data a network can transport in a
certain period of time. In other words, bandwidth is a capacity for rate of
transfer, usually expressed in bits per second."
It requires large bandwidth to convey a rich experience. So at the
interface, let go.
Don’t be afraid to give it up for God.
The
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is
love, the connecting harmony. This relationship between things is just as real and important as the
things themselves. The Holy Spirit is so real it can be called a person.
St Augustine says, "The Holy Spirit is the love between God
and Man." The Holy Spirit is often referred to as the call… The call to return, The
call to joy, The Call to awaken and be glad, and The Call for God. This Call
is something within our own minds and in the creation. We can dissociate that
Call and block it from our awareness, or we can deliberately turn our
attention to it and listen.
This love manifests
itself as the world around us: the creation. First there is pure being (the father)
then there is the will of God (an act in time). The creation is
God’s thought.
We live in the
love of God. The beauty of this concept is that evolution can be validated
in the eyes of today’s religions. Evolution is the gathering of
information provided by the environment so that the organism can survive. It
becomes worship.
A
Creation
Theory
How can God create
the universe from beginning to end, know its outcome, and still allow for
our free will?
Imagine that the
will of God is like a river and we are water molecules in that river. You,
the individual water molecule move about in EVERY direction reacting
freely to pressures of life. And you never notice that the river flows down stream.
One passionate molecule may shout; "Hey this is the way (he points
somewhere down stream). Follow me. If we converge we will become an intelligent
super-fluid and there will be no pressures!" It doesn't
matter if you follow him or not, even if he is exactly right. The river
still flows and it is ok to relax and go for the ride. Your experience
is precious. But, be ready for a fountain of re-creation on the other
side of eternity.
Here is an
interesting theory; The picture above
represents the genesis of the world in six days. God the father is at the
center. Let there be light is the first day of the creation. God transcends his creation of space
and time so
these days are best seen as six degrees of order instead of 24 hour days. Each
"day" transcends the
previous day as a new level of order is imposed on previous day through
God's intervention. During each day there is an amount of life-willed
self-ordering. This self-ordering is the
result of the Holy Spirit. On the sixth day the conscious mind of man was
created by God (I define a human as someone aware of God and the miracle of
being). Near the end of this day a holy man came to show us the way
(through his life) to the next
level of transcendence. And he said,
"All
this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will
remind you of everything I have said to you.”
John
14:25
So pay
attention. On the this day we are left to work out our salvation. And in our scientific
efforts driven by the Holy Spirit we validate our wise spiritual heritage.
The
essence of the creation
Looking closely at
the world, it reveals itself to the scientist as warped space. There are no
particles. Matter is a myth. What we call a fundamental particle of matter
is a point of empty space curved upon itself in 10 dimensions, and vibrating.
This is the stuff of the universe we exist in, and of which you are made.
Imagine the music of invisible crystal bells vibrating.
So atoms excite the universe to a symphony.
The sound waves in this picture are in reality the forces of nature.
Forces arise from waves of displaced space radiating back and forth between
objects. Spiritually speaking, the forces of nature are the will of God.
Science calls the forces Gravity, Electromagnetism, and the Nuclear
force. From these attractive
and repulsive forces (the vibrating symphony) an ordering principal arises
to create the universe, life, and the mind of man.
God creates in a beautiful subtle way.
The natural world is a song, and God is the one singing.
 This
is me. I am the son of Elford (Scottish) and Gloria Garcia (Mexican). Two
cultural migrations collided 47 years ago in Texas, and I was the outcome. I
am an Instructor by profession. One of the subjects I teach is Atomic and
Nuclear Physics. I have a passion for this subject because I consider it the
fundamentals of the creation. I think science is in reality
observing an aspect of God. Here are the steps in my logic. God The Father
created and sustains the world. Since there is nothing other than God, where
did this stuff in the creation come from? It must be God's Thought. It is
the pure will of God. It is the answer to that nagging question, Hey!
What’s the Big Idea? Simply put God is having a good and powerful idea and
it is The Universe. In this light I come to the conclusion that the universe
is something God is patiently saying to us. So we should pay attention to
it. Data is the signal. Those little facts of reality are manna from heaven.
Data is different from information because it is pure. When data is
interpreted it becomes information. Our continued growth even our very
existence in this space and time depends upon correct interpretation.
We live in a
peaceful society. We can thank those
who have gone before us for this. Some were martyred. Some died nameless in
the fight for peace and freedom. We stand on the
shoulders of those who have gone before us, dying for ideas, and dedicating
their lives to increase understanding. We must honor them by doing something
with their gift of peace, freedom, and abundant resources.
Grow In The
Spirit. Don't let it diminish. God created and continues to create the
world. He asks that we share this with him. It is a powerful show of love,
and that means in his realm we are allowed to create with love too!
Individually we create, through our relationships we create, and with God we
create. The eternal life promised by Jesus is just that. "Share in the
creation with me". It is infinite; expect no less here, now and
forever.
From
a dream to reality guided by the Holy Spirit,
Jim
Ledford.
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