Cutting Edge: Evolutionary Enlightenment

‘VISIONS of a Universal Humanity’ featuring Barbara Marx Hubbard and her evolutionary colleagues in the second movie of the award-winning, HUMANITY ASCENDING series present cutting edge perspectives on humankind’s potential to create a positive future for the Earth.

Here's another great interview with Esalen Co-founder, Michael Murphy. For those of you who continue to wonder what all the commotion is about "integral", this informative interview helps fill things out...

In this new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything -- a nondual integration with the entire display of manifestation. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be -- so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it’s going. And the reason this aspiration is so significant is that, if we succeed, the very process we endeavor to take responsibility for literally begins to awaken to itself through us. What could be more important than that?

In the year 2050, if Ray Kurzweil is right, nanoscopic robots will be zooming throughout our capillaries, transforming us into nonbiological humans. We will be able to absorb and retain the entirety of the universe’s knowledge, eat as much as we want without gaining weight, shape-shift into just about any physical form imaginable, live free from disease, and die at the time of our choosing. All of this will be thrust on us by something that Kurzweil calls the Singularity, a theorized point in time in the not-so-distant future when machines become vastly superior to humans in every way, aka the emergence of true artificial intelligence. Computers will be able to improve their own source codes and hardware in ways we puny humans could never conceive. This will result in a paradigm shift that sees mankind coalescing with its own creations: man and machine, merging into one.

In 2006 I sent out a couple of long posts that itemized a series of disturbing events that ex-followers of Andrew Cohen had posted online, as well as Cohen's response to these accusations. This is a followup to those posts. Published a year ago, it is the final statement of the man who created the blog that ex-followers used to compare notes, share stories, and try to make sense of their experiences.

There are two discussions I wanted to be sure all of you had a chance to listen to. Both conversations revolve around an emerging topic called "The Higher We". Coined by Andrew Cohen, the term "The Higher We" refers to what Cohen believes (and I agree) is the next stage of our individual and collective development. It is "an experience of shared consciousness that emerges when people come together beyond ego and narcissism, and points to a radically new way to live and relate to one another".

You're invited to join noted visionary Dr. Barbara Marx Hubbard and her extraordinary evolutionary colleagues in THE CONVERSATION OF THE CENTURY.

In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman <http://bobthurman.com/>, is our first step toward becoming Buddha. When we can know everything, we can see how everything is interconnected -- and we can begin to feel compassion for every living being.

I've been waiting for all three "draft" chapters of Ken Wilber's new "nonfiction" novel "The Many Faces Of Terrorism" to be posted online before sending out this post. But with Wilber in the hospital, it looks like the release of all three chapters has been delayed. So we'll run with the two that are available.

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