Technology and Spirituality

[bogeyman]

Our world is developing at a rapid rate technologically. This technology is used for communication with each other, searching for answers for unsolved problems. It is also used in developing new medicines and new machinery, creating new bio-technology to deal with natural pests which attack our food supply. For all its marvels, there is a downside; our personal development may be suffering as a result, like an unused skill, which is slowly being forgotten.

Many of the above can found using our spiritual side of our existence here, yet few are able to access this side of ourselves.

Communication over vast distances is possible, since the concept of time is an illusion, and distance is irreverent. If you are able to tap into the spiritual plane, many answer if not all can be found, for all the answers are within us, if we search for them. But we are using technology to breach the gap been spiritual and physical aspects of our existence here.

We need technology yes to help in the physical world, and to sustain our world and ourselves while we are here. Yet it is engulfing us, and many are forgetting the other side of ourselves, and not learning how to use our natural abilities which lay dormant in many, and this lack of use is making some forget how to use them.

[Finefeather]

Actually...I would hasten to say that our technology is way behind the 'enlightened' thinkers of our world.

When technology advances to the point where no further progress can be seen, on the physical level...only then will mankind...as a collective...begin to become interested in 'spirituality'...as a technology.
'Spirituality' is our greatest technology and this only becomes evident when we are able to recognise how 'physical' technology begins to look like 'spirituality'.

The Avalon thought..."where science and spirituality meet" should be grasped for it's depth of a secret truth which few may understand until it kind of taps you between the eyes...then we wake up...and only then do we sing, along the path we have chosen...because a greater truth can be seen to be unfolding before us.

We begin to see that everything around us and in us...for us and against us...is all the technology of life. When we run out of reasoning...it becomes 'spirituality'.

Yes we are here on this physical world, but it is only so because this is the right place to be and to start with our understanding of what will become evident one day to all...what lies ahead for the human race.
To be able to understand and become conscious of the magnificence and grandeur of the life we are still grasping to understand...starts at the bottom...the physical dense manifestation...of a world which we cannot even yet dream of imagining the direction which it might take...for...although...in our despair...our ignorance is great...our potential is greater.

Take care and my Love
Ray

[GreenGuy]

This is a topic worthy of reflection! I think technology is a two-edged sword. I'm still in love with the fact that I can connect with hundreds or thousands of real people, in real time, all over the world. We can exchange ideas, recipes, articles, photos and a lot more - I met my wife online!

Just a few minutes ago I was looking at an online ad for a dietary supplement that was sized in ounces, dosed by ml, and priced by grams. Trying to decide how long the bottle would last at the prescribed dose would have been challenging if I hadn't been able to reach for my smartphone and open an app that did all the necessary conversions in under thirty seconds - I decided the product was not a good buy. This is tech at its most awesome in my opinion - something that's useful in everyday life that helps me make better choices.

On the other hand, technology has a built-in stupid factor. I used to know all my friends' telephone numbers. Now they're stored in my phone, and I don't remember any of them. I actually speak to the phone: "Call Amanda." If you were to ask me her number, I'd have to get the phone out again and look it up.

When I was young I used to go on long bicycle rides. Knowing the circumference of my wheel, the number of teeth on the front and rear gear combo I was using, and my approximate crank revolutions plus the time, I was able to estimate very closely my MPH and distance traveled. Nowadays, $40 buys a small handlebar computer that tells you all that and a whole lot more, out to a couple of decimal places. People in bike shops look at me like I'm insane when I talk about doing all that math in your head, back in the day. Even the gear chart taped to the handlebar of my mountain bike is something I have to explain to professional bicycle mechanics - it's a lost art.

There are so many things I used to do by hand that I now use a device or machine for - and there are things, like doing math in my head, that I'm basically incapable of as a result. Are we better off?

[MariaDine]

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[obaefun]

Hi every one,
This is a video that touch the idea in this tread, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMNFvKEy4c

[Karezza]

A healthy medium between the two would be beneficial; this balance is perhaps different for all.


cUzFtWNOOOU

"This idea that our second skin is our technology. It sort of blurs the boundary of saying that there's nature and then there's technology. And that in fact, it's all on a continuum. And we, just smack in the middle between the born and the made... Our technology has become part of our skin. The biological skin bag is just one membrane. Our cells have membranes, too. But our body's still a part of us, and our tools are a part of us."

[Sunny-side-up]

A healthy medium between the two would be beneficial; this balance is perhaps different for all.


cUzFtWNOOOU

"This idea that our second skin is our technology. It sort of blurs the boundary of saying that there's nature and then there's technology. And that in fact, it's all on a continuum. And we, just smack in the middle between the born and the made... Our technology has become part of our skin. The biological skin bag is just one membrane. Our cells have membranes, too. But our body's still a part of us, and our tools are a part of us."

Yes we are all part of the Cyborgnetic computer that is made of us by but! we have lost, become discnected from the higher intelligence that is asleep at the keyboard!


Bumping this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMNFvKEy4c