From Dr. Amen: Brain protection is essential. The Brain is very soft like tofu and the skull is really hard. Brain injuries matter and we need to take care of young brains (like not let kids play football).
The conference took a spiritual theme at the end with the presentation by the chair of the leading private university in Taiwan with a major focus on Future Studies. Their conference coming up is Global Soul, Global Mind, Global Action.
Spiritual Technology is essential to support us slowing down enough to absorb and process the accelerating change of technical technology. Janardhan Chodagam presented about the Brahmin Kumari World Spiritual Organization and highlighted how meditation can transform deep rooted personality we don’t like.
Ray thinks we are going to have sex in new ways with nanotechnology and sensations evoked with direct nerve inputs over riding our regular sensory inputs. I really can’t imagine real sexual activity between real people being replaced by nanobots.
Ray highlighted some key elements of what makes human is how knowledge it transfered from generation to generation. It is this transfer of knowledge that is expanding exponentially and why computers and other tools are needed to cope.
Spirit
Catalyst: Taoism and Identity
One of the most interesting things here at Catalyst has been the expression taoist quotes related to the identity.
Today’s Opening Slide
The Tao of Identity
Though thirty spokes may form a wheel,
it is the hole within the hub
which gives the wheel utility.
It is not the clay the potter throws,
which gives the pot its usefulness,
but the space within the shape,
from which the pot is made.
Without a door, the room cannot be entered,
and without windows it is dark.
Such is the utility of non-existance.
From yesterday
The Tao of Identity
The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name…
We Cannot know the Tao itself,
nor see its qualities direct,
but only see by differentiation,
that which it manifests.
-lau tzu
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We also had some Tarot reading the first evening… who knew this crowd had spirituality flowing through it.