Ascending Way  

In a recent entry into her blog, Iona Miller, whom appeared as a guest on the Ascending Way on Oct. 16 posed the question, “IS EARTH BECOMING A DUNE PLANET?” Her response to her query was on of the most brilliant discourses I have had the privilege to read in years.  The following passages are excerpts from that blog entry.  I heartily suggest that you enjoy the full text.  That text is available at: http://people.tribe.net/ionamiller/blog/848c5533-b10e-4f31-92d2-ef84c8879221

Excerpts from, “IS EARTH BECOMING A DUNE PLANET?”

"The prophetic epic DUNE (1965) by Frank Herbert (1920-1986) is one of the most phenomenal science fiction successes of all time. Conceived as an 11th Millennium trilogy, this first literary science fiction novel remains the most popular, most influential and most critically acclaimed novel/series in the genre. Not since Stranger in a Strange Land had a sci fi novel made such an impact. Its spin-offs seem endless."

"Dune focuses on the dynamics of power and the mass manipulation of unconscious dynamics, of the mythic dimension. The unique feature of Dune's messianic superhero, Paul Atreides, was his ability to see, shape, and intentionally build the future from the zero point of a cosmic maelstrom. In an almost prescient anticipation of chaos theory and complexity, Dune explores the influential introjection of the unforeseen critical element and its intergalactic butterfly effect."........


"We struggle to walk a tightrope between security and adaptability. The safe course leads to stagnation. Our consciousness exists at the edge of chaos - criticality. Chaos is a deterministic non-linear process that can cause sudden shifts among a multitude of dynamic states without warning.

Tremendous upheaval and enormous consequences can emerge from seemingly trivial events. In systems, including nature and socio-political systems, criticality can lead to spontaneous self-organization. Chaos Theory calls this the creative edge. But critical states can also be catastrophic or seemingly miraculous when unexpected patterns emerge.

Self-organizing criticality is common in politics. Trends toward greater interdependence disrupt some portion of this interdependence. Dynamic tension between competing tendencies produces generic fractal (self-similar) time series and spatial patterns. Their dynamic behavior neither dampens nor explodes. Instead, they always move towards the edge of chaos, a region where small and seemingly insignificant events can propagate and cause major cumulative changes.

In the end, we have to awaken ourselves. Can we courageously and consciously enter the unknown? To do so, we have to focus on infinity as a probability cloud not a single vision. We must take a risk to shake off rigidity.

Everything is cosmically connected. Our consciousness is bound to the fabric of reality. We create it and it creates us. We express our primal fear of uncertainty by trying to control the future. Yet enlightened paranoia may be the only rational response to today's complex world.

We are morphing from Cyber-culture to PSI-ber Culture, with challenges humanity has never faced. We may not even be "humanity," but trans-human moving toward a post-human hybrid of high tech and tissue as communication and computing technologies amplify.

Business as usual is non-sustainable and cannot continue unchecked. We need a Plan B for human survival. Negentropy is arguably our greatest hope for a sustainable future rooted in human survival technologies, which doesn't mean that "technology will save us". It both creates and solves problems. Unique physics governs matter at the nanoscale. Soon "reality chips" will put themselves and us together and culture will be revolutionized.

Bioart, tweaking genetics and physical structure, is the medium of the 21st century -- 3-dimensional designing and engineering of new bodies and environments. Probably more than a million people living today were conceived in petri dishes. Bioart is an aesthetic response to biotechnology (meta-biology).

We are in a transhuman transition era we call the Information Age. Direct Brain Interface is coming soon. Quantum dots can already merge with nerves. Information is more fundamental than matter, controlling and patterning randomness; it makes matter matter.

The next technologies are those of the infinitely small: nanotech, photonics, smart technology, and cold fusion. Psionics will revolutionize culture with both new means of mind control and self-regulation: Electromagic, Yogatronics. Currently, we access computers manually, but soon we will have direct neural interface, which will create a form of synthetic telepathy among those with the hook up.

Eventually, our machines will share our organic substance and nature. DNA is a versatile component for nano devices and structures. There are non-biological uses for DNA such as computing devices. DNA is an ideal molecule for building nano-structures that hold molecule-sized electronic devices or hosting crystalline molecules. We will move from silicon circuits toward organic biochips. We are already fusing with our technology as it moves into our bodies. We are becoming cyborgs as tech moves into our bodies for support, repair and enhancement.

Can civilization trump Nature? Next-generation technologies that make reading DNA fast, cheap and widely accessible are coming in less than a decade. Quantum wave genetics will soon after manipulate the root of our being with acoustic holography, a form of cymatics creating morphogenetic formative change with light and sound, holographic projection. Rooted in the quantum nature of Cosmos, we are Photonic Humans: Homo Lumen, holistically aware of and cultivating our energy and Light Bodies.

To be more than human is to be fully human. We sense our own staleness, our dormancy. Evil has been defined as misapplied force and form. Religions have been used to justify personal and cultural agendas, honoring some beliefs over others. What is the nature of evolving spirituality or meta-spirituality that might resolve this global issue? Conscious Evolution means becoming more fully human, participating in an integrative way with [higher] Self, others and world.

We all participate in the evolution of consciousness, whether our transformations are conscious or unconscious. Conscious Evolution is the ethical, philosophical, intentional governance of human change and cultural engineering. We can each conduct ourselves compassionately with creative intent and spiritual responsibility for the health and unfolding of human progress and survival technology. The post-metaphysical desire is to contribute to the spiritual fulfillment of all people. The needs of the many resonate with the needs of the one.

What we need are bigger stories to guide us in our complex world. We can enlarge our perspective from the individual to the global through “bigger stories”, such as those from our wisdom traditions. Mythopoesis means literally, "myth-making," the natural expression of the visionary wisdom inborn to the human species.

It is a creative act of story-telling or narration, by which human beings "track" their experience and orient themselves to the cosmos at large. Metahistory is a guiding narrative for human potential, rather than an interpretation of events. The cross-cultural metastory of the human species is an overarching view of past, present, and future. It opens a path toward participation in a story that leads beyond history, a mythos to guide the species.

We must draw the line at our hearts, bending back toward soul and spirit, becoming more fully human. Self-defeating and self-fulfilling prophecies can shape the future or prevent it from happening. We have to claim our future and humanity by developing and consolidating (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) human survival technologies, by romancing the Philosopher's Stone.

Sacred Activism is service in motion. If you have a value, stand up for it. Let's build better humans from the primordial field upwards. There is only one race, and it's the human race and we are losing it. For sustainability, we have to begin at the primal foundation of our Being, creating and allowing more compassionate human beings who recognize that the only sustainability possible for ourselves is to realize at the deepest level that WE ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER."

Please visit the Oct.16 archive segment of "the Ascending Way," to hear my conversation with Iona Miller.