5 posts tagged “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.
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
A synchronicity is a very poignant moment when our own thoughts and personal histories meld into the physical reality surrounding us, giving us a glimpse into the divine machine of sacred geometric gears that rule the crystallization of time and the material universe in which we are bound. We have all had moments when the uncanny occurs, a momentary happenstance mimicking a fresh thought we have just had, a statement that has just been made, or the simultaneous occurrence of two or more meaningful events. Such moments are a little wink from divinity letting us know that our world is far from the meaningless universe that reductionism has presupposed and that there is a point to even the most abstract of events that occur within our livesThe Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung was the man who first coined the term synchronicity. He stipulated that a synchronicity was a meaningful coincidence, and it was, “an acausal connecting principle;” it was not the result of any space-time causation, and it seemed to defy our rationalized deductions about our universe. More simply put, it is the occurrence of two or more events beyond mere coincidence that are meaningful logically but completely inexplicable and seemingly unconnected.
Recently Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab has conducted a study suggesting that there is a small but quantifiable and statistically measurable link between human thought and patterns that are found to occur in random data sets. No evidence has been found to determine whether this is caused by people unwittingly recognizing these complex patterns and then shaping their thoughts toward an unconsciously known outcome, or if the thoughts of the studies individuals are in fact affecting the data sets themselves. However, recent conclusions of several preeminent scientists would stipulate that our minds do indeed affect reality. They concur that our physical reality is more of a group thought than a collection of substantial things, a hologram of compressed empty space shaped by our observation of it.
Furthermore, The Global Consciousness Project, also based at Princeton, theorizes that human consciousness influences objective reality by means that are still to be determined by current scientific methodologies. Using Random Number Generators scattered over the whole globe (computers programmed to spew forth a random string of digits) they found that patterns of numbers appeared at moments of mass global focus, events such as 911, the turning of the millennium, and the burial of Princess Diana.
These findings and studies would suggest that we have a far more influential role in determining our reality than we have been led to believe. This being the case, it makes it all the more essential that we approach reality in as positive a light as possible, for we want to create the most conducive and most beneficial environment as possible for ourselves and those around us. The old adage that we create our own reality is beginning to be proven true.
How many people have noticed the frequency and intensity of synchronicities being on the increase in the last few years? I believe this increase can be explained by the fact that we are getting closer to a cosmic doorway and rupture in space-time, an Omega Point. This Omega Point on the temporal landscape, the time-scape, creates motions and waves that travel back through time utilizing the medium of the ether. This ether is the quantum vacuum, the zero point field, or the Akashic field.
According to Einstein, time is an illusion, and everything that has ever existed or will exist is happening in the “Now” on the temporal landscape. Realizing this, an Omega Point or 2012 Eschaton would create waves that travel back through time and reach us, affecting the mind-matter connection we have all but forgotten exists. As we approach this Omega Point/Eschaton, these waves will become more pronounced and frequent, as the matter-mind connection is brought into higher cognizance when these delectable, synchronous moments present themselves.
Synchronicity seems to be a communication of our soul with our lower self, bringing events and people with significance into our lives, a significance that our lower self can apprehend. It is as if our minds temporarily falls into lock-step with the cosmos, and the mystery behind it all reveals itself for a moment. In addition, synchronicity has been known to occur around certain numbers. The number 23 has been noticed by many to be a number of synchronicity. Synchronistically, I was introduced to the notorious 23 skidoo when I was 23. I will give a link to an article I wrote on 23 skidoo below. I must state that just because synchronicity appears so incomprehensible doesn't mean it is always a good thing. It usually is a great thing, but it can also manifest, as you will see in my 23 article, at times of great dissatisfaction, such is life!!!
“The Number 23” - Synchronicity, the 23 enigma, and 23 skidoo
http://jonathanbethel.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=43
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel & David Colin Healy
The universe has been complexifying and increasing in novelty since its birth, crystallizing into the culmination point and pinnacle of universal evolution. It started out with an explosion of pure energy, the Big Bang. Over long eons that energy coalesced into matter, and that matter brought forth the constituent molecules that formed life. Like a lens, this evolving life focused reflective consciousness within ourselves, compelling us to study ourselves and the world in which we live. This evolving process appears to be progressing at an exponential rate and is leading to a crown of perfection. This moment has been designated by some scientists and philosophers as the Omega Point.
The term Omega Point was first coined by the French Jesuit Priest and Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Russian biogeologist, Vladimir Ivanovich Verdansky. Together, these two thinkers promulgated the ideation of the noosphere and the Omega Point utilizing the scientific method. This analysis sought to find a way around Einstein's second law of thermodynamics with its entropic, doom ridden Big Crunch. This event was also to bring a direction as well as an end point to Darwinian evolution.
It was their supposition that the biosphere in which we live would soon extrude an envelope of global thought, the noosphere. This was mid-twentieth century and long before the advent of the internet, which is apparently the hardwiring for the noosphere. As the crystallizing of the noosphere completes, the rapture of the Omega Point will occur. This experience is a divine eternal moment which will lift all of humanity to a higher plane of existence and bring us into a more intimate connection with Providence.
As unbelievable as this Omega Point might seem, our recent explosion toward a technological singularity is a glimmer of this monumental event. The technological singularity appears to be evidence of the flowering of the Omega Point within the long trek of human evolution and is a consequence of thousands of years of “striving for the unspeakable.”
Just as Teilhard de Chardin has shown the Omega Point to be the pinnacle of evolution, other scholars have described the Mayan calendar as mapping evolution and leading to a similar culmination point. Could all this talk about a Mayan Calendar with a 2012 endpoint be describing the same process as Teilhard?
It's compelling to note that the ethno-botanist and shaman, Terence McKenna, unaware of the Mayan endpoint and during a deep shamanic trance, discovered a similar conclusion to our historical process. He intuited a model for his theory based on the 64 Hexagrams of the I-Ching, which he later developed into a computer program that delineated a timewave. This timewave mapped the ingression of novelty, or complexity, within space-time. When he fit the timewave to the historical continuum and anchored a novelty spike with the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, he found that reality reaches maximum novelty in late 2012! Another way of saying this is that human evolution reaches its pinnacle in 2012 and experiences an exponential leap into the unknown.
Neither of us know if this Omega Point will happen in 2012 or not, but our own experiences and later research has shown us that this Omega Point will be established within our lifetime; nevertheless, based on the research of many independent sources, 2012 looks very promising.
Utilizing system's theory and complexity theory, Ervin Laszlo has shown in his recent book, “Chaos Point,” that in late 2012 we will reach a tipping point, a Chaos Point, where a bifurcation in the trek of humanity occurs; we reach a huge fork in the road and either go one of two ways. We either enter the path of stability, thereby enlightening a large portion of society and entering a Utopia. Or on the other hand, we could pick the path of destruction and decimation, accordingly creating a Dystopia. We, therefore, have many sources zeroing in on late 2012 as a time of radical and novel transformation.
As we transverse through time to this Omega Point, we will become aware of synchronicities happening more frequently. This phenomena is the universe's way of winking to the initiated and showing us how much our mind and matter are coherently linked. Additionally, it is the effect of this event occurring on the temporal landscape, the fourth dimension of time, sending back waves and reverberations into the past. As we get closer to it, these waves will become more pronounced and increase in occurrence.
It is our duty as human beings to ignite the flame within and awaken our God given power of formation, bringing heaven to earth and establishing the New Jerusalem. It is within our ability to “Imminentize the Eschaton” and draw the Omega Point into existence.
Jonathan and David are colleagues at Omega Point Institute, an online endeavor to unite the ideas of Futurism, Eschatology, and Esoteric thought. Included within O.P.I. are three websites: omegapoint.org, 2012eschaton.com, and sacredwisdom.net. You can contact Jonathan at jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com and David at davidhealy93@gmail.com
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
www.omegapoint.org
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
The entire human species is quickly approaching a quantum leap in our evolution. Every individual walking the face of the Earth is about to go through life changing events that will wake them up to a very strange new world. We are approaching a global rapture of unimaginable proportions, a translation into a higher dimension and a realization of a completely new paradigm.
Are we to witness the culmination point of human history? It appears as such, especially if we consider the fact that humans have made the evolutionary trek out of the jungle, built cities and populated them, manifesting a scientific and technological progress advancing toward exponential growth and a technological singularity. Furthermore, scientists have now witnessed many anomalies occurring in our solar system and in our sun. These anomalies are the signal that our universe is in the process of synergizing and sending out evolution altering energy. This energy will bring many biological changes, which result in a new form of consciousness. Our evolution is tied to processes going on in the cosmos, and they are causing this incredible transmutation and preparing us for the next step. The human species has been progressing forward for millions of years and only now do we have the omega point within our grasp. By serendipity, it appears that we were born at a very opportune time and are gifted to witness this global awakening.
The seeds of divinity buried within each of us are growing to fruition and are now about to reveal our true essence. This global awakening will transform our society from a dystopian civilization to a utopian paradise. Many prophecies point to this time as a time of titanic change and monumental transformation. The culture of the Maya actually utilized a calendar with a termination point in the year 2012, a year that marks the end of this world and the beginning of a new one. What did the Maya see that made them choose 12-21-2012 as the termination point of their calendar? And more importantly, what can we do to ease our transition through this future rapture, this singular moment of radical transformation?
We must first understand that our individual thoughts and actions are creating a global mind or consciousness, the noosphere, a layer of thought that surrounds our planet and influences the course of events. Depending on whether we color this Noosphere with good or bad thoughts, we get the results of doom and apocalypse or a paradise and utopia. Our thoughts are real things and influence our reality; this being proven by research.
Scientists have now established that groups of people can affect reality with thoughts. They’ve witnesses groups slowing the coagulation of blood, speeding up the healing process, diminishing the formation of bacteria, and killing off hordes of locusts, all with focused thought at a distance. Just from this evidence alone, it’s obvious that thought can be used for good or bad effects. In addition, our collective psychic awareness appears to be tied to global events. This is evidenced by random number generators. These machines spew out patterns of digits in an otherwise random string of digits during the occurrence of global events, such as 9-11.
The future outcome of the planet is really up to each of us, individually. That sounds like an incredible amount of responsibility. It is! The fate of the world will be determined by your thoughts and your actions. Always know that every action you make or thought you have is either adding a brick to your Utopia or to your Dystopia.
We must also prepare. Preparation is a good thing; however, we can’t run around in fear preparing for the end of the world. We are an expression of the universal intent, and we will make the proper decisions at the proper times. If you are urged to do this or that, do it. Just make sure none of your decisions or actions are out of fear or any darkness. Fear and hatred beget fear and hatred. The best preparation one can do is to raise one’s vibration. In this way, you are becoming part of the small critical mass that will ultimately shift reality. Those in the upper echelons of control are trying to diminish who we are and lower our vibration. Consequently, learn the techniques to avert their attempts at diminishing your vibration and learn to raise it in spite of that. And always know you were created by the highest and are inherently part of the divinity that created us. We are divine creatures in our infancy in the process of awakening to who we really are.
There is really nothing to be concerned about; all will happen as it is suppose to. We are experiencing a cosmic program in the process of unfolding. This is our destiny, and we are integral actors in this global drama. Therefore, get ready for a whole new reality as we move into this “Shift!”
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Omega Point Institute
www.omegapoint.org
www.2012eschaton.com
www.sacredwisdom.net
www.jonathanbethel.com
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
During the second half of the twentieth century, science and spirituality began moving toward each other in perspective and sharing many of the same ideas. The battle between evolutionists and creationists was leading to the dawning of a new spirituality that utilized scientific fact. It was as if the logical side of humans, which had divorced itself from the intuitive and creative side during the birth of science, started recently allowing a deeper intuitive pattern to invade the space of logic and rationality. The mystic and the scientist were philosophically merging into one being. Could this be the long awaited dawn of the Age of Aquarius?... an age where thought and emotion are married together in a supreme act of symphony. It was a shift to a completely new paradigm of understanding about our reality and our place within it…..a new awakening…..a modern day Renaissance.
Ancient forms of wisdom have been describing cosmological processes in a way that modern physics is now confirming; that is, they both agree on the origin of our universe and its infantile form. In the sacred Kabbalah, it states that reality sprang forth from a singularity, Kether; modern physicists also concur about the origin of our universe from a singularity during the big bang. One of our sacred wisdom schools had the blueprint for creation all along. We just had to wait for our scientific know-how to catch up to balance this intuitive wisdom with logic. Furthermore, many superstring theorists describe our reality as comprising 11 dimensions, just like the eleven “sephira” or dimensions of the “Tree of Life” in the Kabbalah. The sync between ancient wisdom teachings and modern science is now becoming very pervasive. Several books come to mind that do a great job of merging modern physics and spirituality- “Dancing with the Wu Ling Masters” by Gary Zukav, “The Tao of Physics” by Fritjof Capra, and “The Mind of God” by Paul Davies. Each is an excellent source for the marriage of modern science with spiritual wisdom. By experiencing many of these viewpoints, we begin to see how a whole new paradigm of perspective is synthesizing out of the divergent viewpoints of science and spirituality.
It’s not hard to understand why the scientific worldview is so cold and devoid of any kind of spiritual ideology. Two discoveries that occurred within the last 120 years became the death knell for any kind of optimism about the human experience or any kind of spirituality within the scientific standpoint. The first was Charles Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection, and the other was Albert Einstein’s Second Law of Thermodynamics. Natural Selection stipulated that we came from lower species and have evolved over long periods of time to get to our present stage of evolution. This seemingly ended all questions about any possibility of a creation by God, since it appeared that we were just the result of random mutations. That we evolved from apes and lower species seemed obvious; consequently, most scientists concluded that there could never have been a divine intelligence or creation, and we are just the product of random happenstance. On top of that, the Second Law of Thermodynamics of Einstein clearly made matters seem even darker. It basically stipulated, as the universe ages, it gains disorder and will eventually snuff itself out in a final heat-death. This is the final collapse of space-time, also known as the “Big-Crunch.” This basically said mankind was headed for doom without any choice for our long term survival. These two early discoveries seemingly painted a very dismal picture for the human condition, and science, consequently, pronounced God dead.
Despite this development, two scientists came forth to forecast the eventual enlightenment of humanity in a converging Omega Point. The first appeared in the early twentieth century, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He was a paleontologist by profession and also a Jesuit Priest, an intriguing marriage of the intuitive and logical side of man. He surmised that our current evolutionary tract will terminate in an Omega Point. In his belief, we will achieve complete immortality and unity with God in this singularity. Teilhard believed the earth’s layer of life, the biosphere, is extruding a layer of networked global thought, the noosphere. This is apparently manifesting at the present time through our global computer networks. This noosphere is what will evolve towards the ever unified Omega Point. Therefore, both evolution and creationism are actually correct. The Creator was creating evolution!
The modern physicist and cosmologist, Dr. Frank Tipler , believes that life will eventually be replicated in an future Omega Point of transcendence. He believes that we will eventually construct a quantum computer that will control the final collapse of space-time, nullifying the doom-ridden “Big Crunch.” He equates this Omega Point/Computer with God, and he says that everyone who has ever lived will be resurrected in it to live a life of eternal bliss. It must be noted; however, Tipler arrived at his notions only through the complete scientific method. He never forced the evidence to fit the theory. In the ultimate irony, Dr. Tipler lived a large portion of his life as an avowed atheist; it is only through his scientific discoveries that he now claims a theological perspective.
One need only take a look at the physical world around us to see the handiwork of a higher mind, for it is very apparent in the intelligent design of our universe. Also, the chance of conditions being right for life by randomness alone is very improbable. The probability of it happening by chance is
1 in 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000!
Chaos theorists have speculated for years that our apparent random universe is in actuality a form of higher order, an order that manifests through our chaos and apparent randomness. Furthermore, the occurrence ofthe number “phi,” 1.618, throughout our universe is a manifestation of the intelligent design of our cosmos. “The Golden Ratio”, “the phi ratio”, manifests in everything from bumble bees, teeth, and shells to our concepts of beauty, the formation of our body, and the composition of our galaxies. This intricate order woven throughout our known universe is an indication of a higher intelligence; it is incontrovertible evidence of a higher mind behind much of our creation.
There are many other great examples of our physical world exhibiting evidence of a higher mind and scientists who have included spirituality into their perspective. Suffice it to say, the opposing viewpoints of science and spirituality have begun to find harmony in existence with one another, especially in the view of many of today’s free-thinkers. No longer is it impossible to back up the idea of heaven with hard logical data or to imbue your scientific perspective with spiritual insight. The disparate perspectives of science and spirituality have managed to fuse themselves together and generate a paradigm shift to a whole new level of understanding.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Omega Point Institute
www.omegapoint.org
www.2012eschaton.com
www.sacredwisdom.net
www.jonathanbethel.com
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com
