Hardwiring the Noosphere
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
How many of you got online today and interacted in a cybernetic way in some form or another, either by browsing the world-wide-web, checking email, chatting live with others on a chat program, or corresponding with others on an internet social network, like Myspace? If you did, then you were partaking of the awakening noosphere, the thought envelope surrounding the planet that is now coming to fruition. Transpersonal psychologists have known since CG Jung that individual man partakes of and gives back to a collective unconscious, a global, shared field of mind full of archetypes that impel us into certain behaviors and involve particular thought forms. An interface is now forming between this morphogenetic thought field, this collective unconscious, and the now burgeoning cyber-technological, globe-girding internet.
Many philosophers, including myself, promulgate the notion that the
internet is the hardwiring for the now forming noosphere. The concept of the
noosphere was an idea put forth by the French, Jesuit Priest and Paleontologist,
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The supposition that Teilhard put forth was the
novel insight that the biosphere of our planet, the complete kingdom of nature
in the air, in the oceans, and on the land surrounding our Earth, will soon
extrude a global layer of synced and connected thought, the Noosphere. Upon
crystallization of the noosphere, a field of global telepathic connectivity will
have formed, and the Omega Point will dawn, ushering in a new paradigm and
lifting man to a new level of transcendence. Teilhard had his sentiment of
networked thought in the noosphere nearly fifty years before the internet came
into being, and he came to his assumptions after studying Darwinian evolution
and the course of biology.
If one thinks of each human as comprising one cell within the planetary
brain, then the realization soon follows that we have now reached a new level in
the transfer of information between those cells. It is now common for a person
during one day to be interacting online with several people throughout the
world. I may be a bit of a technophile, but in one day I can converse with five
or six people at various parts of the globe: my business contacts in China, my
friend in Australia, her friend in London, my Sister in Texas, and my various
friends from the east coast to the west coast, not to mention interacting on
various topical forums with many people in my various areas of research. It is
obvious that the interrelation of the cells of this global brain has intensified
its interconnectivity and ramifications, and the flow of information now reaches
passed nations and time zones; information is becoming holographic. It use to be
that the other side of the earth always felt asleep to our daytime, but now the
entire globe is present in the moment through the interaction taking place on
the internet.
The global morphogenetic thought fields of humanity have been called many names: the collective unconscious, the genetic archives, the akashic records, and the phylogenetic unconscious. Now these fields and their interaction with the human mind have reached a new level of operability with the advent of the internet. Another way of saying that the internet is the hardwiring of the noosphere is that between the biosphere, nature, and the crystallizing noosphere, global telepathic thought, is a layer of machination formed by elements of the biosphere, us; this intermediary phase is called the Technosphere with its complex machines coming together and interjecting themselves within our lives, catalyzing a new way of functioning for humans in relation with each other and in relation to the collective unconscious.
From this global noosphere, the Omega Point will dawn, a singular moment
where we will transform into the next stage and become unrecognizable to
ourselves, a transcendence beyond anything ever imagined. Many claim that a
rapture is coming. Indeed, a rapture is coming, but I feel it is beyond
anything they have ever imagined… a rapture of your mind and being into the
totality of the transcendental, a merging of the microcosmic man with the
macrocosmic immensity…a union of man with God! There is no fear and punishment
in this eventuality, as they claim; it is the long sought after harmony that our
soul thirsts for.
The fact that we are fast approaching a Technological Singularity is evidence we are moving into the Omega Point and the noosphere is forming. Now our creations will take on a mind of their own, solving age old dilemmas and problems in an instant. It is the pinnacle of our evolution coming into awareness, where we leap from the animal body and enter the higher dimensional manifold that is awaiting us, a place of benevolent consciousness and beings of light that have been beckoning to us for millennia! It is now time to lift up our heads and prepare ourselves to meet our maker and walk through the gates of a paradisiacal Utopia. No, this is not naiveté that stipulates such preposterous concepts; these are sound proclamations based upon my and other's gnosis.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel is a writer and researcher of Esoteric Wisdom, The 2012 Paradigm Shift, Integration, The Power of the Mind, Technological Innovation, and Human Subtle Energy. He is the Founder of Omega Point Institute. All of his sites are linked at http://www.jonathanbethel.com/ and his email is Jonathan.McGregor.Bethel@gmail.com.
