Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Transhumanism Datum: zondag 4 augustus 2013 12:32 Newsletter Nr. 460 Amsterdam, August 4th, 2013 THE ENLIGHTENED SOURCE OF THE POSTHUMAN - BARCLAY POWERS Transhumanism represents a modern version of the monomyth, the classical hero's journey, which results in the secret of immortality being successfully retrieved by the hero and given to humanity. The three most prominent 20th century scholars of myth, Campbell, Jung and Eliade, noted this archetypal narrative seemed to reside at the mythological roots of many civilizations. The concept that the pre-birth consciousness within all human beings represents an enlightened dormant structure of illuminated origin can be considered to be the essence of many of the primordial wisdom traditions. The idea that for thousands of years, the contemplative traditions of Asia have had an ongoing well-developed inner science of spiritual awakening that results in the complete evolution of consciousness has not generally been included in the transhumanist discussion of the future of humanity. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/powers11.html NON-DUALITY IN KEN WILBER'S INTEGRAL PHILOSOPHY - A Critical Appraisal and Alternative Physicalist Perspective of Mystical Consciousness - CHAPTER EIGHT : CONCLUSION - JEREMY JOHN JACOBS Since the advent of human consciousness all manner of theoreticians from mystics to philosophers, and linguists to scientists have considered why and how it is that an individuated self seems to occupy or indwell a physical body. There is a common experiential sense, in other words, in which personal consciousness and our bodies are felt to be two different things. Two broad areas of opinion attempting to explain this apparent bifurcation are defined for the purpose of addressing this problem: Essentialists who variously maintain that there are non-physical properties inherent to all forms and functions of physicality; and Physicalists who claim that the extant universe as a multiplicity of complex material processes is the only reality. The respective natures of body and mind and the ways in which they relate has yielded an extraordinary variety of hypotheses within and between these two broad categories. In this thesis the dilemma is called the Hard Problem and it focuses particularly on the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Recently, Ken Wilber has constructed an Integral Philosophy which attempts a synergistic gradation of all possible genres of experience and knowledge into one cohesive scheme representing the total Reality. The culminating point of Wilber's theory claims resolution of the Hard Problem, indeed of all appearances of duality, in the realisation of consummate emptiness in mystical consciousness. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/jacobs1.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html