memeticon
The Memeticon is an exploration of the memetic convergence of ideas on consciousness and what it means to be human.
There are many avenues through which human minds search for meaning, and express its multiplicities. From an apeironic perspective these efforts are boundaryless and the possibilities therefore endless. For example, altering one's state of consciousness can range from archaic to modern magico-religious techniques of lost cultures such as the Southern African San Bushman trance dancers to the psychonautics of the Amazonian vegetalista shamans.
All minds are landscapes to be traversed and explored by a multiplicity of techniques and approaches - literally that an archaeology of mind is available to us and that an ecology of consciousness can be evolved from these recorded experiences and related research.
In a broader sense, the farther reaches of the conscious and unconscious mind are being increasingly scientifically and experimentally explored through a variety of psycho deconstructive and integrative techniques - from the shamanistic manufacturing of reality - by deconstructing boundaries of sense-making reality, to the reality and consciousness-making of artificial intelligence, studies into animal and plant sentience, and psychonautic explorations into all modalities of reality and consciousness making. It is a netherworld, a twilight zone, of either or neither that has attracted, and been navigated by generations of psycho-spiritual seekers and mind explorers in the form of artists, poets, philosophers and the modern-day high priests of science and technoshamans.
A variety of traditional and modern magico-spiritual techniques centering on achieving altered states of consciousness have evolved to project will and intent towards specific outcomes - either for personal development, therapeutic applications and for mundane, personal use. These practices have evolved into technoshamanism and psychonautics through a variety of ecstatic techniques such as gnosis, breathing, meditation, visualisation, and the use of psychointegrative technologies, tantric practices and ritual.
The Memeticon draws on the latest insights from modern science of the mind, quantum physics, genomics, memetics, consciousness studies, altered states/realities (by whatever means), shamanic and ritual traditions - to discover insights that are universally applicable and offer essential 'pathways' for the next generation of practitioners and seekers into consciousness- and meaning-making.
Boundary / Embodiment / Liminality / Threshold / Gate
Consciousness / Modalities of consciousness / Hypercontextual / Altered states of consciousness
Existence / Emergence / The human condition / Worldview / Technologies of self / Overself
Magic(k) / Magico-religious / Spirituality bound and unbound / Technologies of magic
Meaning making / Myth - Symbol - Ritual / Technologies of meaning
Meme / Memetics / Memeplex / Memeticon / Meshworks / Situationism
Mind / Ecology of mind / Technologies of mind
Psychonaut / Psychonautics / Psychointegration
Shaman - Shamanic - Shamanism / Cybershaman / Technoshaman
Spacetime / Trajectories / Intentionality / Possibilityspace / Multiverse
Technology / Being and becoming / Eternal Return / Technopoiesis
The only purpose of life is to live as closely as
possible to reality
