If you can read the following, you understand the phenomenal power of human mind. ’Aoccdrrnieg to rscheerch at Cmabridge Uinervtisy ti deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are. The olny iprmoatnt tihng si taht the frist and the lsat ltteer msut be ni the rghit pclae”
Digital Dharma, by Steven Verdo is all about this power. This is a user’s guide to expanding consciousness in the infosphere.
Amit Goswami, the author of ‘God is not Dead’ says about this book “ Vedro shows parallels between the metaphors of communication, technology and those of spirituality, I am impressed’
He takes us through the seven levels of Chakra, a Hindu concept, are as follows :
- Root – Security – Radio Telephony
- Pelvis – Relationships – Basic Telephony
- Solar Plexus – Personal Power – Broadcasting, Podcasting
- Heart – Compassion - Television
- Throat – Communication – Peer to Peer Network
- Third eye – Deep Seeing, and – Digital Compression, HD TV, MP3, Virtual Reality, signal coding, spread spectrum etc.
- Divine Connection.- Wi-Fi, Global Positioning, Satellites, Grid intelligence.
He goes on to say, “ In each interaction with the infospace, we have a choice, whether to embrace the big picture and take the full spectrum of data, or to follow the path of limited input and thus limited possibility.”
The book is accordingly divided into seven main chapters:
- The Telegraph of Aliveness
- Reach out and Touch Someone
- Becoming a Clear Channel Broadcaster
- The Broken Heart of Television
- Living in Truth on the World Wide Web
- Seeing Deeper and Seeing Wider
- Teleconsciousness – The Unity of Self and the Cosmos.
To quote, many see the global internet as the beginning of a true ‘global brain’; a virtual community where people of different cultures find a worldwide common language and develop new mental abilities and spiritual energies. On the other hand there are critics, who claim that television, video games and more recently web surfing have actually cut us off from each other, installed false belief and taught us to worship material goods.
This book takes us through all these, and teaches us the Digital Dharma, where we can go for self actualization for ourselves as well as for everyone else, by correctly following the Digital Dharma.
There are some dramatization and over-speak also. Consider these lines from the book :
“ When you are ready, reverse the zoom, and slowly drop down to the cellular dimension.
Visualize your core program is being held in a CD-ROM, running a few feet above your crown. Ask the light to defragment this code; imagine negative belief-system subroutines being replaced with more positive operating instructions. Imagine a golden light rewriting the code of your life to its most positive outcome.”
The most interesting and fascinating chapter is of course, Teleconsciousness – The Unity of Self and the Cosmos.
To quote, in the seventh state of Digital Consciousness, we are not only I and you, we are also the network that is connecting them. .. We can choose to remain conscious of our role as God’s nerve system, responsible to create the universe, each time we see the other as reflection of divine.
A plus point of the book is it explains the various technologies in the world of information technology, in very simple lucid English. True to the concept of information ages, a 162 page writing has 60 pages of notes and bibliography attached to it. A reader curious enough can move through these references and notes and try to find them on the net or otherwise and enhance his knowledge.
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