Talking About Technology
My laptop has become a vehicle for me to increase my mindfulness and connect with the world (the world being other people) in a much greater way than my home computer. It makes me feel more comfortable, more connected than before I got a laptop. Since I got it I find that I am less suspicious of the world (people) than I was before; although this would seem intuitively the opposite of what it should seem, especially given the news pumped at us via our computers. I no longer do that thing where on one makes judgments and fabricates potential stories about people based on actions or facial expression. I find the world (people) an easier place to accept. However, since I have gotten my laptop, I feel a stronger connection to....everybody!
Not an Interface:
It's not about input and output (I/O), or some magical software that connects me directly to the Collective Conscious; although, the "games" and telephone telepathy experiment on the Institute of Noetic Science website comes pretty close. It's about being able to pursue those vocations which I have described as "meditative" and made me feel connected to some greater whole than my daily experiences would tell me is my world experience; and pursuing them in public, rather than in isolation. Writing, art and music composition has for a long time put me in a peaceful state of mind, with a worldview that the world is a good place. Consequently, I would pursue writing and art every morning. If I missed a couple of mornings, I would find myself taking a more rancorous view of the world.
The laptop allowed me to pursue these same vocations in the midst of people, connecting more specifically, rather than less nebulously to the non-local conscious aided by shared mind experiences. Some of these experiences could be defined in words such as creating, producing, seeking, learning, empathizing..... Other aspects of this shared experience is not quantified by words, for it exists in a realm off connection not quantifiable by words, something that was once described in a horribly reductionistic way as vibes. The ancient Buddhist might call the mechanism for this shared experience is called Naked Awareness, a newer term I hear bantered around is mindfulness.
The idea of like minded pursuit in the company of others of like-mindedness has been behind the concept of libraries dating back to the first universities. I still have a wonderful writing / digital art space, a private library with wood tables, books and a Persian rug. I don't use at as often, preferring to work in public in a swirling miasma of empowering and comforting like-minded vibes, sometimes observing with curious naked awareness as wisps of various experiences most easily described as emotions, swirl about me, drawing me to look about a potential sources. It is like being at a concert where all enjoy the same kind of musical experience, yet it is different.
Delightfully, what happens in the non-local conscious doesn't always stay in the non-local conscioius. I often find myself engaging with someone of a like-mindedness in a very hard reality mode known as verbal conversation.
Not an Interface:
It's not about input and output (I/O), or some magical software that connects me directly to the Collective Conscious; although, the "games" and telephone telepathy experiment on the Institute of Noetic Science website comes pretty close. It's about being able to pursue those vocations which I have described as "meditative" and made me feel connected to some greater whole than my daily experiences would tell me is my world experience; and pursuing them in public, rather than in isolation. Writing, art and music composition has for a long time put me in a peaceful state of mind, with a worldview that the world is a good place. Consequently, I would pursue writing and art every morning. If I missed a couple of mornings, I would find myself taking a more rancorous view of the world.
The laptop allowed me to pursue these same vocations in the midst of people, connecting more specifically, rather than less nebulously to the non-local conscious aided by shared mind experiences. Some of these experiences could be defined in words such as creating, producing, seeking, learning, empathizing..... Other aspects of this shared experience is not quantified by words, for it exists in a realm off connection not quantifiable by words, something that was once described in a horribly reductionistic way as vibes. The ancient Buddhist might call the mechanism for this shared experience is called Naked Awareness, a newer term I hear bantered around is mindfulness.
The idea of like minded pursuit in the company of others of like-mindedness has been behind the concept of libraries dating back to the first universities. I still have a wonderful writing / digital art space, a private library with wood tables, books and a Persian rug. I don't use at as often, preferring to work in public in a swirling miasma of empowering and comforting like-minded vibes, sometimes observing with curious naked awareness as wisps of various experiences most easily described as emotions, swirl about me, drawing me to look about a potential sources. It is like being at a concert where all enjoy the same kind of musical experience, yet it is different.
Delightfully, what happens in the non-local conscious doesn't always stay in the non-local conscioius. I often find myself engaging with someone of a like-mindedness in a very hard reality mode known as verbal conversation.