Logging Out: A Return to the Authentic Self
“Is the person I am online today the person that my 12-year old self would be proud to have seen me become?”
“Is the person I am online today the person that my 12-year old self would be proud to have seen me become?”
It is helpful to think of the E-Word of media and social media as the mass monkey mind. In meditative traditions, the “monkey mind” is the term used to describe your chattering, unchecked inner world, which (if I may mix my metaphors) has a tendency to wander about indiscriminately like a blind man stumbling along a crowded street without a walking stick. The blind man keeps bumping into people, either cursing them or apologizing frantically in order to deflect their anger, even as the other pedestrians apologize or curse him back. Because he cannot see, the blind man doesn’t realise that all the other pedestrians are equally as blind, and all without their canes.
Emotional Alignment is a simple way to help bring anxiety under control in this time of increased fear and uncertainty.
Tom Lombardo is a futurist who is very interested in many of the realms of inquiry that I am, and he has come to similar conclusions many times. (he wrote the introduction to my book Extraordinary Mind). Lombardo’s essay “Consciousness, Cosmic Evolution, and the Technological Singularity” has just been published in the Journal of Futures…
This is a short four minute extract from my talk at the Futures of Cities conference in Perth, Western Australia in November 2012. Here I talk about the way that our minds have been conditioned to think and react in very restrictive ways by the modern consumer society and education systems. Apologies that the footage…
ACADEMIC ARTICLES: Title: Entangled Minds: The idea that will change everything? Author: Marcus T Anthony, Director MindFutures Publication details: MindFutures, Australia, 21012 This fully-cited and easy to read 8000 word article identifies the illogical and inconsistent thinking in some ‘cutting edge’ thinking about the future, especially in relation to discussions about intuitive insight, consciousness beyond…
ACADEMIC: This is my doctoral thesis, which I completed in 2006. It examines dominant mainstream theories of mind and intelligence, and contrasts them with alternative Eastern, mystical and indigenous conceptions. In particular the thesis presents the theory of integrated intelligence: that the mind extends beyond the brain, and that individuals can tap into that greater…
ACADEMIC ARTICLES: Many classical depictions of intelligence suggest that individual human intelligence is part of a greater transpersonal consciousness. The concept of this integrated intelligence has resurfaced in contemporary times in a number of fields. This paper presents the ideas of four thinkers whose works incorporate integrated intelligence – Broomfield, Dossey, Wilber and Zohar. Inayatullah’s…
ACADEMIC ARTICLES: The purpose of this paper is to introduce several possibilities and potentials regarding the implementation of integrated intelligence into the modern pubic education system and the knowledge economy which it serves. There are thus two seminal questions. Firstly, what general uses might integrated intelligence have in the modern secular public education system? Secondly,…
ACADEMIC ARTICLES: In this paper I draw upon theory within critical and postconventional futures studies to develop a vision for some potential applications of advanced cognitive capacities in an idealised society of the future – the integrated city. Specifically I refer to the theory of integrated intelligence (Anthony, 2008). This theory posits that the…