Not unlike technology, myths and fairytales are traces from our past, retained and played out in stories which we call fantasy. (See also “Technology and Humanity” and “Telepathy and Humanity”.) Joseph Campbellhas pioneered the journey into myth. Carl Jungdelved deep into dream interpretation. We still think of fairytales as fantasy, science fiction as imaginative thinking. Though grains of memory may be embellished and Continue Reading
Telepathy and Humanity
We humans are of the belief that we are inventing somethings new, creating more from an original state of less, ‘creating’ things and ideas that have never existed before. (See “Technology and Humanity”.) We are bamboozled by the idea of information traveling at the speed of light, of telephones which we can transport with us into the jungle, of recording one source of information while we’re engaged in something else, or of Continue Reading
Technology and Humanity
Technology is not separate from humankind. Nor is it an extension of humankind in the sense of being something ‘new’. In fact, it stems from our deep-seeded desire to reclaim what we have Known and have forgotten. Several years ago I remembered how to fly. Sitting in a chair, listening to a woman speak, I suddenly found myself, fully conscious, being in ‘two places at one time’. - I was sitting, fully aware and sensing of my Continue Reading