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November 27th, 2017 
Awake Goy …Integrating your nervous system into a computer matrix like the internet, everybody’s linked up, and eventually you’ll be able to transfer your consciousness through understanding and being in.. the matrix itself most of the time… You’ll be able to holographically project your life.. in the matrix and that’s the slipping slope; that’s where we lose ourselves… It’s a hellish environment and they’re begging to die… It’s better to step into the infinite and become extinct than to eternally exist in this computer matrix.” – Aaron Donahue
“Digital Immortality” is a concept that not too many people know of or think about, yet it is a philosophical undercurrent of our modern technological age that swells larger and larger with each new “smart” gadget and technological innovation that renders completely obsolete that which preceded it.
Transhumanists, singularitarians and scientific elites like Ray Kurzweil, Dmitry Itskov, Elon Musk and even Stephen Hawking have all pointed to a seemingly inevitable future in which human beings will be immortalized “as living beings inhabiting a digital domain of disembodied minds.”
The vision of the transhumanists is a rather utopian one, where non-biological copies of human minds exist in a sort of virtual paradise, free of all the pain and suffering of the physical world.
But what if this digital paradise somehow transforms into an inescapable hell?
This is the dire warning of Aaron Donahue, a renowned remote viewer and associate of retired U.S. Army Major Ed Dames, who headed up remote viewing projects for the U.S. military- projects made famous (or infamous) by the book/film “Men Who Stare At Goats“. Donahue insists that he remote viewed a future in which humanity has uploaded its consciousness (or at least the earth-bound element of it) into a sort of digital virtual-reality matrix. However, something akin to a virus infected this world, making this matrix an inescapable hell in which the inhabitants are “begging to die“.
Whatever your opinion of Donahue or Dames, the idea that such an outcome could be entirely possible given the current level of maturity and general impulse control existing in the mass mind.
The mass mind could be seen as a component of what French philosopher Édouard Le Roy, Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Russian geochemist, Vladimir Vernadsky, termed the “Noosphere“- the “mental sheath” of Earth. While this idea of a collective mind or consciousness is not new, it is finding an interesting reflection of itself in the digitally constructed world we have made.
The concern among some is what the potential consequences would be of a sort of “merging” of this digital realm with the noosphere, as we become ever more fascinated and immersed in our technology and the worlds we create within it.
This could quite possibly be what Rudolf Steiner referred to as the “Incarnation of Ahriman”- the coldest depths of materialism. Christian intellectuals like Dr. Katherine Albrecht have compared this seemingly inevitable merging with AI and the digital world to the prophecy of Revelation. And the seemingly religious fanaticism of those who envision it as humanity’s “best option” and would work so tirelessly to carry it out, is somewhat concerning for more than a few.
These “data points” lit up in my mind and an uneasy feeling came over me as I watched the trailer for the upcoming film, “Ready Player One” (based on the dystopian science fiction novel of the same name). The film/novel follows a young protagonist named Wade Watts, who seeks to gain the ownership and control of the virtual world known as the “OASIS” (which stands for Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation). The OASIS, Watts states, is the only place worth going in what the novel and film portrays as an economically and ecologically depressed society:
They called our generation ‘the missing millions’. Missing, not missing because we went anywhere – there’s nowhere left to go. Nowhere; except the OASIS. It’s the only place that feels like I mean anything. A world where the limits of reality are your own imagination“
The only place that feels like I MEAN ANYTHING.
If nothing else, this is brilliant marketing for the younger generations that experience a world and an existence devoid of any real meaning, a world where so much of their lives are lived “plugged in” to social media profiles, online gaming avatars, and internet porn- because it’s the only place where they can feel like they “mean anything“.
Imagine the appeal to these “lost generations” of truly being able to be immersed in this world.
These are generations who have been raised to feel insignificant in their ability to truly shape their own reality. Disempowered and disenfranchised, they are searching for meaning. Having had their imagination squeezed out of them by the indoctrinated dullness of modernity, these generations are seeking something to give that power back to them.
If such a thing as this willing insertion into a virtual artifice were to happen on a large scale in the way described by its proponents, the complete removal of humanity from the Natural World will have occurred.
Nothing good could come from such a thing. Humanity needs to find its way out of illusion, not ensnare itself deeper into it.
Please find the meaning in THIS world and THIS life. Rediscover nature and do whatever you can to immerse yourself in it. Connect with real people in the real world. Seek the way to spark the light of your truly human and truly divine imagination before it’s too late.
The fork in the road is coming.
Namaste and God Bless.
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Originally Posted at Lightning Warriors
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