4 posts tagged “technological singularity”
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 & 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
Humankind has developed to the point where its technological evolution is going to become autonomous and progress by its own directive, that is, our technological momentum is about to make the leap from a linear progression to an exponential, multiplicative progression in the blink of an eye! This “Event Horizon” is called a “Technological Singularity” because all mathematical models utilized to predict our technological development break down at this moment, and they cease to give us a clear picture of what might lie beyond it. This moment will herald the liberation of consciousness from its current confinement and imprisonment in human biology, allowing us to utilize immense computational capacity far beyond the biological brain and to interact directly with computer sentience.
Actually, our technological development has been experiencing exponential growth for some time; however, at the beginning of any exponential growth curve, changes are very slight and nearly imperceptible, appearing very much like basic linear growth. Regardless of how slow this process starts off, as the rapidly expanding growth curve deepens, immense changes to the system become exceedingly apparent, and then it then strikingly and abruptly mutates.
Two technological fields will become the baseboard from which the “Technological Singularity” will spring, Strong Artificial Intelligence and Amplification of Human Intelligence. These two fields are currently thought to be the substratum from which a singularity will emerge. Although, neither one of these fields can be taken in isolation; for in all truth, the singularity will be caused by a cascading effect brought about by a rapid inflation of nanotechnology, strong a.i., self replicating machines, amplification of human intelligence, cyber technology, biotechnology, FTL-technology(faster then light tech), etc…
The near future promises to bring us things only dreamed of until now: a keen understanding of physical disorders and their cures; longevity of life, even immortality; unimaginable intelligence through advancement of our computational capacity and expanded memory; immersion in a 24/7 virtual reality, a “Matrix”-like experience, through non-invasive technologies projected right into your brain synapses; the manifestation of any desired object, with the use of clouds of nanotechnology bots that configure themselves to thought; the complete understanding and utilization of Faster Than Light Technologies, time machines and much, much more.
The concept of a technological singularity was first put forth by the mathematician Vernor Vinge in the 1980s, but it was further elucidated on by the inventor, futurist, and writer, Ray Kurzweil. His recent book, “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology,” is a very in depth look at what the singularity is and why it is a definite probability in our collective future.
I know most of you are saying to yourself, I thought this guy was all about 2012 and a spiritual-mental paradigm shift, which I am! However, I’m, definitely no psychic and can’t say for certain exactly what the future holds. I do believe we are headed for a mental paradigm shift, and I also believe the fact we are fast approaching this Technological Singularity is evidence that mankind has reached the pinnacle and culmination point of human history. Current estimates place the singularity happening approximately 2020-2050. Even if no spiritual paradigm shift ever happened, we would still be on course with this technological singularity and could not avoid it. In fact, nothing can stop it, except all out global economic collapse or a planetary disaster.
This exponential growth is really a product of “Moore’s Law” later extrapolated into Kurweil’s own “Law of Accelerating Returns,” both describe this unavoidable explosive inflation. Many people fear the advent of this Technological Singularity, thinking this could be the onset of the enslavement of humankind by machines. In fact, Vinge describes two groups that coalesce around this concept, the Luddites and the progressives. The term Luddites comes from an event where technology put a group of people, the Luddites, out of work. They, consequently, oppose the advent of this moment, where the progressives seek to actualize it. Many people have come forward to promulgate a need to confine Strong A.I. and not give it the tools it would need to bring about this Luddite nightmare scenario. This is a real possibility and needs to be taken into consideration as we design and implement A.I. However, I do not think we should live in fear and avoid the one thing that could make our life so much better! What it boils down to is, we will impart to our machines whatever tendencies we ourselves have. This is why I have stressed so strongly in my articles, it is vitally important we begin to treat each other with benevolence, for never before has our mentality had such far reaching consequences. We shouldn’t fear our machines and project our own innate inadequacies on them; we should become a good example, as usually our parents are, and bring to light a Technological Singularity the progressives dream about not one the Luddites fear!
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
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
