I wonder if any of us can fully appreciate our present condition and the imminent danger we are in of becoming machines. The impetus toward the computerization of everything, including us, is not only insidious but extremely pervasive.
It’s interesting, in a bizarre way, how technology substitutes for qualities and abilities that as spiritual beings we innately possess but have lost touch with. Perhaps that is its great attraction. Communication for example: wireless technology mimics what we could do telepathically if we were to develop that finer sensibility.
Not to mention the desperate march toward immortality. We are now being offered the ‘choice’ to incorporate machine parts into our bodies to extend our lifespan. And once that becomes acceptable it is just a step away from downloading one’s entire consciousness into a machine!
I am not against technology per se only the kind that is out of harmony with nature and ourselves. How convenient is technology, really, when it leaves pollution and desecration in its wake and usurps the soul of man?
I remember as a little boy when I would spend countless hours at a local pond, that I would traverse a large meadow to get to, and how I would usually return home with one of its abundant gifts, sometimes ones that I would have to return, since they were alive and my mother would explain that I had uprooted them from their home.
Are we to be ‘uprooted from our home’ by technology? What a scary thought!
It seems that our appreciation of nature and our connectedness to nature (which includes human beings) is absolutely vital to keep our hearts alive, our minds sane, our spirits free and our bodies healthy.
DBC