Do you still feel like any significant evolution will not take place within the next 50 years?
I'm assuming you, though almost definitely not me, may live at least 40 more years, and you seem to be among the wisest I know of writing about the possible evolution needed.
I'd love to see you write more on what it would take to hasten the evolution in the next 50 years. And I'm not, of course, talking about the planetary acknowledgement of the supramental. Just a simple post materialistic science might be a good start. I certainly seems to me, if I look at the reaction 28 years ago to Chalmers' declaration of the hard problem, and the exponential increase in just the past 5 years of scientists willing to even talk about the possibility of consciousness as fundamental, that something is speeding up exponentially in the world of the greatest living scientists.
And I still see immense possibilities in the fact that Dan Siegel went from a basically materialistic view of the mind in around 2003, to seeing the connection between his ideas of "mindsight" and conventional mindfulness, to writing the book "Aware" in 2018 which is basically a post materialistic view of consciousness (the book was partly inspired by French physicist and philosopher Michel Bitbol, who has written a beautiful and brilliant essay available for free online, "Is Consciousness Primary?" (Spoiler alert - he answers in the affirmative).
But even more so, the fact that well over 100,000 children around the planet are practicing Dan's "Wheel of Awareness" in their classrooms - an exercise which is remarkably close to Advaita and Dzogchen and Chan and Zen practices for realizing the Self.
Something may be happening we can't see on the surface.
This is exactly right.
Do you still feel like any significant evolution will not take place within the next 50 years?
I'm assuming you, though almost definitely not me, may live at least 40 more years, and you seem to be among the wisest I know of writing about the possible evolution needed.
I'd love to see you write more on what it would take to hasten the evolution in the next 50 years. And I'm not, of course, talking about the planetary acknowledgement of the supramental. Just a simple post materialistic science might be a good start. I certainly seems to me, if I look at the reaction 28 years ago to Chalmers' declaration of the hard problem, and the exponential increase in just the past 5 years of scientists willing to even talk about the possibility of consciousness as fundamental, that something is speeding up exponentially in the world of the greatest living scientists.
And I still see immense possibilities in the fact that Dan Siegel went from a basically materialistic view of the mind in around 2003, to seeing the connection between his ideas of "mindsight" and conventional mindfulness, to writing the book "Aware" in 2018 which is basically a post materialistic view of consciousness (the book was partly inspired by French physicist and philosopher Michel Bitbol, who has written a beautiful and brilliant essay available for free online, "Is Consciousness Primary?" (Spoiler alert - he answers in the affirmative).
But even more so, the fact that well over 100,000 children around the planet are practicing Dan's "Wheel of Awareness" in their classrooms - an exercise which is remarkably close to Advaita and Dzogchen and Chan and Zen practices for realizing the Self.
Something may be happening we can't see on the surface.
Maybe we should do a video conversation on the possibilities of exponential evolution of consciousness in the next 50 years?
Sure. Let's do that. What about next week?
Sounds good, I’m free just about any day, any time - how about Wednesday, 5 PM your time?
Great. I will send you the Zoom link.