Merging with the computer
May 25th, 2007 by Ivo | 
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As a student of the Almaas’s Diamond Heart school I am used to keep in the background of my soul a sort of Socratic psycho-spiritual inquiry that I used to practice in that school. So even when I am in front of the computer I ask myself what is the deeper need that this tool tries to fulfil.
Almaas’ books and models of the soul introduce psychological and spiritual knowledge in a unique way for the west, harmonizing the once split fields of psychology (that works mainly on ego integration in life) and spirituality (that works mainly on going beyond the ego toward our essential qualities and the connection with the absolute).
The name itself personal computer conveys an exclusive, unique and intimate relationship between the user and the media. We don’t call our car or our digital camera “personal”. In psychological terms and considering mainly the works of Margaret Mahler and Almaas I would say that the relationship between a user and his computer resembles the symbiotic phase in the relatiosnhip between mother and child, with its sub-phases.
