Steps Towards A Further Ecology of Mind
Translative,
Transformational, Transcendental, Transhuman
The
following ‘progressive stages’ forms a framework for future
‘step(s) towards a further ecology of the mind’:
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Translative consciousness – Newtonian step and repeat thinking; linear; measured consciousness; clear boundaries between subjective and objectives; still evolving; penetrative but not whole-picture awareness; bound, demarcated consciousness.
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Transformational consciousness – metamemes; conscious metaprogrammes (reference John Lilly’s papers on dolphin research). The self-organising principles of complexity theory.
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Transcendental consciousness– e.g. tantra: all layers, all dimensions, simultaneously; ocean of consciousness experience (but with complete awareness and sentience – not a psychedelic, Gnostic or ecstatic, trippy joyride; beyond life and death; connectedness – inwardly and outwardly) – the true interpenetrative spirit and possibly the final frontier of human, three-dimensional space-time consciousness. Unbound, fuzzy consciousness. Highest level of complexity and complexification.
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Transhuman consciousness – boundless multidimensional space-time. Chaotic random sea of possibilities, probability and potentiality. The pregnant void. The so-called ‘mother’ principle of the Tao. Creative/destructive spirit. Glimpses from the magico-spiritual realm; the perspective of the shaman. Emergent transition to consciousness without bounds, immeasurable …the apeiron.
The consciousness that we experience is human consciousness.
It is not the totality of consciousness ‘out there’, the
totality of consciousness that still has to be experienced
or must still be re-membered.
Excitatory States of
Consciousness (The Fallacy of Mind-Body Duality)
Consciousness is an excitatory state – a gateway of the mind
e.g. meditation calms one part of the mind which allows a
subliminal excitatory state to ‘emerge’ of which you become
aware. It (realisation, awareness) appears magically (rises
up into conscious awareness) as if hidden, from nowhere,
therefore the mystical analogies that get contributed to
Gnostic and ecstatic states of consciousness. The brain is a
fixed state (bound) organic material that has captured or
was formed by these excitatory states – interpenetrating the
body from boundless reality.
We are
the product of this interpenetrative spirit - the apeiron -
a boundless excitatory state of potentiality - of
interpenetrative matter and spirit.
Fire in the brain
Imagination
is the essence of being human – the highest means known to the
human psyche of getting into contact with the ultimate reality.
While the
possible objects for an imaginative archaeology of information
are vast - ranging from trickster tales to mystical conceptions
of the Logos to divination - the first steps are the garnering
of one’s personal capacity to see, imagine, and visualise and in
a trance or dream state, or ultimately, a technognostic state
(Davis: 1998), where everything becomes but a ‘dream within a
dream’, that the boundaries of reality fade and the world of the
shaman, of new reality making becomes possible.
The power to evoke images in one’s mind - to see and believe something that is very different from what one normally sees and believes, or what one thinks one should see and believe – is a process of coming to new knowledge. When one’s view of how things happen is temporarily challenged and suspended, a doorway opens - a doorway where anything seems possible.
"Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
Philip K Dick
The only purpose of life is to live as closely as
possible to reality
