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With Cyber-Spirituality on the Rise in Silicon Valley, Will the Rest of the World Eventually Embrace It, Too?
“I do believe we are in the midst of a transition — intimated by the Internet — towards a more collective thinking, where the individual psyche becomes a component of a larger group mind. This doesn’t mean we stop existing as individuals, but it could mean we become more fully aware of every other living being, much in the way a coral reef’s individual organisms respond to one another as if they were part of the same, single body.” — Douglas Rushkoff
I was recently interviewed by Magda Gacyk, a San Francisco-based correspondent for Wyborcza, the most prestigious daily newspaper in Poland (akin to New York Times in the U.S.) and her article, that can be loosely translated “Prophecies of the Tech Spirituality: A New Gospel of Silicon Valley,” appeared in the last Saturday issue of November.
Here’s our conversation:
Magda Gacyk: In the world of new technologies and incoming Technological Singularity is there still a place for good ol’ soul? Both from a philosophical and theological point of view?
Alex Vikoulov: What our ancestors called a “Soul,” nowadays we call consciousness — local and non-local — for all intents and purposes. Throughout my works, I emphasize consciousness being a dynamic, evolutionary development of the mind. So, from the philosophical standpoint, our minds, or souls if you prefer, constitute an integral part of continuous individual self-development and collective evolution. They always have been and always will be evolving patterns of thought and experience. From the theological standpoint, I believe we’re part of the teleological evolution of our universe, meaning that evolution has a direction towards what I refer to as the ‘Omega Singularity’ — the final cosmological singularity…
