the whole notion that the flesh is requisite becomes horribly antiquated and perpetuates a very shallow point of view.

I don’t so much care defining what “human” is, but I just can’t get past this point - saying that the body is antiquated. It grates on my nerves so much

1) i felt that if you modify a human sufficiently he ceases to be one spiritually,etc. and 2) a meld of sufficiently advanced technology with humans would destroy the humans.

Hey alistair,

I, too, have contemplated both of these points, and it’s actually where I started out with my thinking. In no way to I mean to say that I am right and you’re wrong, but where I am at now is that my experience and knowledge have shifted my perspective towards the idea that consciousness itself is not relative to the manifest “body” or “shell” upon which it anchors itself. For consciousness to interact within space-time, within its own manifested maya, something (I am not going to debate what) sets down an electromagnetic architecture for the body to inhabit space-time. It’s all energy, for lack of better terms. There were some great studies done on electromagnetic footprints of prenatal organisms, from plants to animals, where the images produced of these forces — invisible to the human eye, obviously, but captured via special recording devices — showed that the adult format of the organism was already in place around the foetus or the plant seed.

The matter that comes to incorporate itself into the body of the plant or animal, or whatever, was already structured. In essence, the rest is just in the details. Of course, this will can raise the debate about which is illusory: free will vs reality… but I ain’t going there in this thread. What we consider human is a familiar pattern of consciousnesses, all threaded together by something phenomenology refers to as an inter-subjective matrix of illusory experience. We are a tapestry of perspectives.

If you work with shifting the location of consciousness around, you’ll find that it is not isolated to the frontal lobe of the brain. And the more experience you garner with shifting your point of entry or awareness into this manifest space-time, the more you’ll be able to tug away from actually being “attached” to this electromagentic field that surrounds you, which is in fact the anchor between your consciousness and what you think is your body.

Once you plop yourself outside of your body, the whole notion that the flesh is requisite becomes horribly antiquated and perpetuates a very shallow point of view. That we could integrate our memories with the internet, download and upload the patterns that make up memory, emotional responses, and now that they’ve developed tools to integrate computers with the optic interpreters in the brain for blind people, a whole new age of information hierarchy and social orders will bear fruition.

I ask you this, and think before you answer: What is human?

and the transhumanists(well,the ones at future hi at least) have no sense of humour.
but can you explain the tit licking thing? i am embarassed to say i think i missed something.

I am not sure what ‘future hi’ is, but as far as transhumanism goes: a) cyborg chicks are always hawt, seriously; and b) there is a natural progression or consciousness to expand itself to encompass larger and faster social hierarchies, especially as of recently. Good ol’ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, with his concept of the noosphere, kinda got me into it. At first I didn’t care too much, but without going into some long rant about the upsies and downsies of the so-called transhumanism movement, it just seems — to me — to be the most obvious and apparent way things will go over the next while. I am not sure how it can be ‘dead’ as it’s only just beginning. No need to debate it, I suppose, it’s just my opinion. And what do I know.

As for tit licking, it’s just as good as saying it’s the “cat’s ass.” It’s going after the teet for something sweet, which in this case seems to be the whole Gnostic thing. Don’t get me wrong, I admire Gnosticism, but like it’s been pointed out here, it’s just a model. And, also, like I’ve pointed out before, and this is just me, of course… I like the cocaine and hookers model. But it’s not for everyone.

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(licks tit and wonders what to do next)

Cocaine and hookers, yo. Cocaine and hookers.

As far as Gnosticism goes, it’s a dead system, just as is any Traditional movement, Hermeticism, et al. I am all about the present, and even though I don’t much play them, I am bombarded by the Xbox and PrayStation.

This leads me to put my hard-earned faith into transhumanism.

Plus, I like cyborgs. They’re fucking cool.

So, in the meantime as I shove my cell phone up my ass and wait for God to call, there’s really only three things for me to do: a) Pursue my design work and theory; b) Continue to practise and teach contemporary occultism to hot chicks at the U of A; and c)…

… Cocaine and hookers.

Is that gnosis? ~twilight zone music~

(licks tit and wonders what to do next)

to make maps to describe maps of maps, ad infinitum.

Oh, alright. I’m with ya.

Tit-licking?

I’ve been wondering lately, wtf is up with all the Gnostic tit licking lately?