INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 734 Amsterdam, October 4th, 2018 THE RADIANT FORM - How "Mixed Reality" will transform us and the world we live in. - DAVID LANE AND SHAUN DIEM-LANE Humans are augmenters. We have a long history of not only altering our landscape but our very bodies. Given our ancestral past and our evolutionary need to adapt to changing environments we have fashioned clothes for climate protection, disfigured our flesh, and built a kaleidoscope of tools to better navigate our Darwinian sojourn here on terra firma. We are naked apes no longer and perhaps never were once we branched out from our predecessors. In one very real sense (and echoing the deep insights of Buddha) we are fractured creatures in a cosmos that is filled with unimaginable suffering. In order to survive this requisite death match, our brains developed a sophisticated buffering system that shields us from becoming too aware of our existential plight. Natural selection is not only blind but it has also blinded us from too much data lest we smother ourselves from informational overload. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane145.html