The Myth of The Singularity
posted by Kim Gould | May 25, 2011
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IcerocketI've been reading a bit lately about the Singularity. When I first heard the term I assumed it referred to the point at which the duality we have all been living in for millenium resolved into oneness. This is what I believe the whole 2012 thing is about. If you haven't seen Terence McKenna's take on 2012 and the I Ching, I've included a video at the end of the post.
But no, it's nothing so wonderful. To my surprise and amazement, the Singularity turns out to be the point at which robots and humanity merge. There are people who are excited about this. Apparently the idea of becoming TransHuman is appealing.
As someone who grew up with the Six Million Dollar Man, I can see where they're coming from. But. We are talking here about superhumans, artificially enhanced by things like robotics, neurotechnology, articifical implants of various kinds.
Of course it's already happening. How many of us know someone with a titanium hip or knee? And how many people would be completely lost without their GPS and smartphone?
And have a look at this:
"Prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil told the US Congress of Representatives that smarter-than-human intelligence is likely to arrive within twenty to thirty years, at his testimony at a hearing on the societal implications of nanotechnology.
"Kurzweil believes that once nanotechnology matures to a certain degree, it will permit us to scan the human brain at the fine-grained molecular level, uncovering the cognitive regularities responsible for our intelligence. At that point, Kurzweil claims, it will be possible to either enhance human brains cybernetically, or completely transfer ("upload") human brains onto computers - probably nanocomputers - and run them at accelerated clock rates, resulting quickly in transhuman intelligence.
http://bit.ly/lgoAy8
I had a bit of an experience of this a week or so ago. My phone rang and when I answered it a recorded voice said "Kim Gould please call 1800 xxx xxx xx and quote this reference number &#$%$##." And then hung up. I have no idea who that call was from. It could have been my telephone company, a telemarketer, who knows? A few days after this experience I had to call the accounts department of a medical company to query a bill. I rang the number and when it was answered this is what I heard "Hello, reference number please."
These calls got me thinking about how we are being 'robotisized'. I mean, why would a company think I would respond to either of those situations? It's because we are gradually being trained to follow robotic like prompts. If you're not convinced, have a look at the Visa Card ad at the end of this post.
This is a dangerous and largely invisible push to block us from our natural intelligence and birthright. Reliance on technology weakens us, separates us and interferes with our natural human processes. It also carries hidden within it a myth that we cannot self-heal, that we cannot connect over distances, that we cannot intuitively choose to be in exactly the right place and the right time, that we have no connection with the earth's abundance unless rescued from starvation by genetically modified grains, that we must be rescued from our own destructiveness, and that the earth is angry with us and will destroy us given half a chance.
It is a shortsighted view of humanity that is incapable of perceiving the new trajectory of our evolution!
I want to push it one step further. We can already access the benefits of this new TransHuman. If we simply relax into love and our own multidimensional consciousness we can evolve into something that most people would consider to be divine! It is the result of hard won efforts at the soul level, not by getting an implant, a mechanical "upgrade".
Have you ever watched a science fiction movie and wondered why it's all about hatred, war and destruction? I have come to believe that most people have absolutely no idea what is shifting beneath their feet - the very basis of what it is to be human! As we move beyond the limited reality of the third dimension (or whatever you want to call it) and into a much wider consciousness of truth, love and beauty the superficial survival needs of humanity fade away.
We find extraordinary new capabilities coming to the surface - the ability to love unconditionally, to perceive patterns of connectedness that were previously invisible, to consciously connect with the plasticity of our brains, cells and DNA, to communicate without speech, to ride a wave of synchronous universal creativity, and so on. These emerging capabilities make the idea of becoming TransHuman seem like a nightmare rather than a wonderful vision of the future.
This new apocalyptic vision is sometimes referred to a the Post Human World. It's true! You can google it! Futuristic scientist Dr Michio Kaku talks about this Post Human World in this short video. I'm wondering how many of the benefits of this brave new world you are already experiencing - or beginning to understand how to create - in your life without the need for any technology at all? Perfect body, perfect health, agelessness, real connections with mythical creatures, time travel, etc, etc, etc.
The Human Design Transits
You can read this blog with the chart image at http://www.loveyourdesign.com/?p=2801
Today is activating an awareness of this attempt to push humanity into a helpless robotic future. Atlantis and Nemesis are opposing Ceres and the Moon. The Earth Mother and La Luna meet technology head on.
Atlantis and Nemesis suggest that we better stay on the surface, trapped in our own survival fears because if we relax for a moment we'll starve to death. With no trust in the feminine - either the nourishing mother or the potent creative potential held within the daugther - we are truly adrift in the sea of male creativity.
This attempt to keep us all in the superficial is simply Mars trying to avoid his deeper emotions about the mother/feminine - but to no avail since these will begin to surface in early June as Ceres shifts into Gate 36 on 30th May. In his attempts to avoid the deep complexity of the mother/son relationship, the masculine turns instead to technology.
If any of you have read the work of Joseph Chiltern Pierce (highly recommended) you will know about his research on the bonding that babies do with technology rather than their mothers in hospital births. Intriguing stuff given this whole TransHuman story is coming from the baby boomers - the first generation to experience wide scale hospital birth!
Atlantis is in Gate 64 at the moment, meeting Nemesis in 47. Ceres and the Moon are in Gate 22 (which is the opposite gate to 47). And the South Node is in Gate 12. Atlantis is also square Persephone and trine Mercury (in the Gate of Earth - 2).
Atlantis represents the use of power, especially in technology or information, against another. Nemesis represents the place where we return to again and again until we finally understand our adversary. Mercury and Venus are conjunct in the Mental Gate of Returning - coming back again and again until we finally work out what is really going on.
There's a strong relationship aspect here, as Atlantis is also exactly conjunct the relationship asteroid and minor planet Juno!
If you've been watching my Facebook feed you might have seen how conflicted I am about getting a new smartphone. It's because I love technology but I know the dark side that it brings to our lives - South American miners being poisoned and dying for the minerals in our laptops and phones, the electro-magnetic energy that soaks our homes from wifi, the effect on our brains of constantly being 'connected'.
The daughter and mother are re-uniting on 30th May as Persephone in 35.6 meets up with her mother Ceres in 36.1 - 30th May 15:00 through to 1st June 22:00 UT. I expect this will be a time for completion of the family dynamic that's been healing between mother and daughter - the princess/daughter energy I've been writing about.
Also, note that Mars and Venus are conjunct in the Ajna Centre, so we can trust in the growth of true relationship. The daughter is being freed up from the vapid projections of both parents, and this allows her gentle fertility to bless the earth once more.
Note that Gate 24 is the mental portal for the Crown Gate of Inner Knowing - Gate 61. It's what we do on the mental level with our inspirational knowing of what is true for us as individuals, a powerful thing indeed! With no belief in that gentle energy of our inner daughter we can never know our own creations. Only in knowing this can we make our own invisible world become visible and manifest.
And right now that means allowing both the masculine and the feminine to play their roles. When this happens we can truly relax and stop overcompensating! And move into an era of abundant free and empowering technology, rather than old ideas that robotics will be our future!
The I Ching and Timewave Zero 2012
Here is a link to a video on Terence McKenna's calculations using the I Ching. Skip over the first few minutes to 2.50 where you'll go straight to the relevant bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-prt5d6m6s
Comments
Choosing Evolution
— May 26, 2011
"In his attempts to avoid the deep complexity of the mother/son relationship, the masculine turns instead to technology."
Nice. So technological obsession could be a consequence, rather than a cause? I would suppose such a psychosis is only one possible outcome of the underlying neurosis. While I am seriously concerned about the consequences of our material compulsions, I wonder if it is not possible with a tamed psyche and spirit to execute technological innovation without committing global ecocide. On one hand I am outraged at the extent of our offenses, and you make good points of they type conscious people are aware of regarding the human and environmental costs of producing the most basic materials that underlie our economy and lifestyle, particularly energy resources and metals; but on the other hand I wonder if there are not benefits to technology that can be accessed sustainable by a conscious society. I lean toward agreeing with you that the Earth (and I believe beyond) may be moving into higher dimensions at time, but I am unsure how quickly physical needs will fade, although I am sure that physical reality will become altered and so the requirements of our also changing bodies will also change. However I understand that even in higher dimensions, to a point, there remains a kind of physicality. For example some craft have been seen to fade in and out of view to the naked eye, yet are apparently solid and made of metal like material.
The techno-singularity is a pretty scary concept. On our current pace, we will produce of ourselves a super-race of heartless humanbots. But that does not have to be the inevitable outcome of the use of technology. The same energy that is accessed by the individual to journey out of dimension can be accessed with simple physical technology that can simulate the energy receptive and energy creative mechanisms of the organism, and at enhanced levels so that a small physical device could create energy many times greater than that used by a master meditator to control his own temperature and blood pressure. On an individual level, amazing things are clearly possible, as you cited, space-time travel and the works, but are we going to completely transform into ethereal non-physical beings? If not, I could see heat and perhaps food being desirable, although as one poster has pointed out we could feed ourselves completely on sun and air. But a warm shelter would be nice maybe? And perhaps there are other benefits to "space travel" as opposed to "astral travel", otherwise I would not think so many "visitors" would be arriving in physical craft, unless they were all as sadistically addicted to their technology as we are...
I could see the development of technology not only to enhance humans physically but actual physical tech that will enhance their vibratory capacity, but not in a good way like crystals and gold, but more like the way computers and cell phones allow us to communicate over distances while drowning us in EMF as opposed to telepathy. It will be sold to people who haven't gotten on the consciousness train and it'll be marketed as if it were a video game. We're definitely being trained down this path as the Visa ad implies. Soon enough the credit account will be on a micro chip implanted in the forearm. A short sighted vision indeed. But I have no doubt that an awakened multidimensional humanity could avoid such traps and utilize technology and resources and our intellectual gifts with heart to maximum benefit and with truly minimal detriment. In fact, we could create a system of resource renewal whereby more utilitarian resources are reproduced then used. Of course, this augmenting supply of natural resources would create great problems for the industry who will struggle to profit with perpetually low prices. It may require a different economic system. No human eco-management could renew the fossil fuels and metals, but we could manage their use sustainably, given the minimum material requirements of technologies utilizing subtle energies, zero-point and other dimensions. That, is given we still have bodies to maintain. I very much appreciate your post, Kim.
Brian
Brian I agree with all you
— May 27, 2011
Brian I agree with all you say, and this being such a huge topic it's impossible to cover all aspects of it in one post so thank you for raising some of the points I couldn't include.
In terms of higher dimensions ( if we want to talk about things from the point of view of 3rd dimensional linear hierarchies!) - there is a nesting process taking place - one dimension nests within another - so that physicality operates on all dimensions if we choose to access it. Another way of saying that may be to explain that our spirits are descending into and anchoring in our physical bodies.
Most of the technologies we make use of now are not particularly useful, and have a tendency to create damage to our DNA and the earth's processes. As you say, there are technologies that we have at our fingertips that we are not using. IMO due to resources residing in the 'powers that be' who wish to make money and keep control of things for as long as possible. We only have to look at the way Monsanto attempts to dominate the agricultural debate in the US, pharmaceutical companies the health debate and oil the energy debate. We would be much happier, healthier and wealthier without them, despite their rhetoric that our survival is at stake and they are the saviours!
I like your phrase "minimal detriment". My view is that not only will there be no detriment, but we will be entirely beneficial in terms of what we might call the Gaia system. No downside at all. This is the way of what we might call the multidimensional or galactic human - to work in absolute resonance with the universal forces to create more life. Another word for it is synchronicity :)
Technoshaman88 - here's the Gaia and grandmothers! Both of whom love us unconditionally.
The Singularity
— Jul 13, 2011
The singularity is The One, the nameless, formless All-That-Is, in Sanskrit it's the primal root Sat - translated as capital T Truth or the Deep Self. It is there before time, if you can handle paradox.
The transhuman meme about the merging of Bio and Mechanical intelligence is one more attempt to keep the consciousness that we are trapped in the Matrix.
Peace
