In the last
decade our
shared planetary nervous system has been extended, as media sage Marshal
McLuhan predicted in the early 1960’s, into a global embrace. Communications networks have advanced from wires to fiber
optics, from interconnected radio and television grids to a world of billions
of wirelessly communicating sensory devices – each with its own address in
cyberspace. Our collective systems for sharing thought have undergone the
most rapid change in human history, affecting our mental, psychological, and etheric
bodies.
The electronic media
amplify, distort and attenuate our senses, change our awareness, and “mediate”
our experiences. But from a mystical perspective, everything we have created in
cyberspace holds a lesson for our spiritual unfolding. The Infosphere is the
new environment through which humanity must now play out its evolutionary
challenges. If the universe itself, as many philosophers tell us, is a field,
not just of matter, but also of information, then the Infosphere must
hold in its microcosm all levels of human experience: all knowledge, all our
dramas of politics and power, and all our dreams. This knowledge is encoded in
our ubiquitous systems of telecommunications, and yet because it is so
omnipresent, to most of us it is still invisible.
Based on his book Digital
Dharma, Steven Vedro’s multimedia presentation will introduce the core
communications metaphors of each of the seven levels of consciousness. Join Steven
for a challenging and entertaining exploration of the developmental metaphors
of light and shadow in our cellphone and texting mania, the impossibility of
finding the truth over the internet, the challenge of deep-seeing brought to us
by digital compression, and the glimpses of field awareness inherent in evolving
social media and “cloud consciousness.”
Event Name: DIGITAL DHARMA BOOK TALK
Event Date Wednesday, 02/13/2013
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Rising Tide Spiritual Center, 5102 Swift Road, Sarasota
Price: FREE
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