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The mind as a kind of media

Marshall McLuhan told us that every medium and every technology has a role in the extension and numbness of our organs. The mind’s extensions created by computer technology on the one hand expand our mental possibilities in terms of research, information, and knowledge processing, but on the other bring us to amputate or to numb some of the capacities of the same mind.

The computer can seem an extension of the mind’s capacities, but in reality it numbs our capacities to observe our minds from the inside, as self-consciousness, of our mental mechanisms, and of our whole body/mind systems.

At this point, my hypothesis is: If the computer is a way of outsourcing the mind’s functions, the mind itself could be considered as a “medium” which determines an extension and an anesthesia, in this case in relation to the original completeness of the soul. This is an application of McLuhan’s theories considering the knowledge that comes from the psychology of the ego.

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Loving the truth for its own sake, interview with Almaas

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The Diamond Approach, the path created by Hameed Ali, better known by the pen name A.H.Almaas, emphasizes loving the truth for its own sake. Searching the truth takes place through a process of inquiry that includes the subjectivity of the researcher and his personal history as a way to reach objective knowledge of the soul and of the divine.

In this interview, originally appeared on Innernet, he speaks about the inner inquiry process, the researchers and the nature of the soul.

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The Tibetan watch: how a spiritual teacher learned about technology in the West

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Chogyam Trungpa was a Buddhist teacher who grew up in Tibet and then came to the West. His life and teaching were quite adventurous and intense.

In one of his books, Chogyam Trungpa recalls that whilst in Tibet he was much attracted by the Western life.

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Virtual worlds and Maya 2.0

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The creation of virtual worlds has an immediate fascination over human beings. Second Life. World of Warcraft and other environments are amongst Internet developing tendencies.

The great appeal of these worlds is augmented by the fact that the mind itself is a powerful creator of artificial worlds and it complies with an intrinsic need within the mind.

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Zen archery and computers

The use of tools and technology is probably the most singular behavior that separates human beings from animals. Humans have self-consciousness, that is consciousness conscious of itself: we are aware that we are conscious.

Being aware of having consciousness allows us to project the same consciousness outside our bodies in creating tools that extend our body-mind possibilities. During history the use of tools diversified and grew exponentially, with computer technology as the most advanced mind-extension tool yet created.

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