I have illusions of myself slowly becoming a “techie.” I would like to think that I am “leveling up” to understand the latest gadgets and modes of communication available today. The latest thing that I have jumped into and joined is Twitter... following other minds in this parallel world of mind-streaming in real time — as in now, now, now!
One is allowed to send off a tweet with a maximum of 140 characters to a network of other minds of personalities known and unknown. It’s amazing, fun and totally fantastic how one can connect to the mind-stream of ideas, thoughts, opinions and even useless chatter.
This phenomenon, alongside the explosion of cyberworld into mainstream consciousness, is an aspect of the Age of Aquarius already manifesting itself. This Age of Aquarius first heralded in the early ‘60s when it showed itself in the early spurts of psychedelic colors, drugs, free love with slogans of “make love not war,” hippie culture, astrology, yoga and meditation, Eastern spiritual practices, vegetarianism and alternative medicine. Fifty years later, the higher and more defined manifestations of these can be seen in how all of these are now mainstream, including the breaking down of institutions and the slow but sure shifting of consciousness and perspectives at how one looks at one’s relationships and meaning of life. It is science meeting up with religion. It is life moving upward towards an integral point of view that embraces all and includes and transcends. Other aspects of Aquarius which came to manifest later by the mid-’80s was the rise of the computer that serves as the vehicle of the Information Age. The astrological sign Aquarius also rules the airwaves, thoughts and ideas, as well as the radical discontinuity of worn-out structures and institutions for new directions to be born. Our minds are shifting and accelerating their pace, looking to integrate and bring together in another level, that which is not working on this level now. Aquarius is about the brotherhood of man wishing and working for the betterment of the collective rather than the personal.
Now Twitter. Its entry into the whole Information Age through the micro veins of the whole system! You get to know people’s inner thoughts, their weird mind shifts and deeper philosophical insights. You catch the mind stream of consciousness arising, running, shifting second after second. It’s like being in a whole thought bubble with multiple voices running through our heads adding to the din of mind fluctuations. It’s a daily experience we can plug into when we want.
Am I addicted? For now, and I guess for as long as Blackberry gadget can go fast enough to take the streaming in.
Does it serve a purpose for me to be plugged? I guess so especially if we are creating tribes to help build or carry trends of thoughts to the next level.
Is it relevant? Yes, oh yes, even just for listening in on the news and the latest things happening.
On Twitter, I would like to say I am so totally connected to not just the world, but the consciousness of many, plugged into the thought grid of the world now. I am reminded of the words from the book Up From Eden written by my fave philosopher Ken Wilber who gives me intellectual orgasms: “We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-Action the mode and manner of Spirit’s creations, and thus is always going beyond what went before — that leaps, not crawls, to new plateaus of truth, only to leap again, dying and being reborn with each new quantum lurch, often stumbling and bruising its metaphysical knees, and yet always getting right back up and jumping yet again.”
In technology and this new system is Spirit-itself-in action. And I am enjoying the moment, being totally in the moment: mind streaming with the many as the world shifts and spins in space.
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