Something that touched me:

Review: I come across a lot of “technology luminary” types who have their thumb on the pulse of search, the internet and new technologies. Between you and I, at some point, the lingo, the discussions and the ideas fall into some categorized part of the mind and I begin yearning for something More. And then I found Indranet.

Meet Ivo Quartiroli, a logical mind tempered with breath, action and passion. Let me just attempt on this simple blog page to categorize in one word what Indranet’s theme might be: Connection. Just think for a moment about what form connection takes in your life and on what levels. I may be presumptive in saying that those of you who are reading this are fairly “plugged in” to the world of computers whether on the user level or more advanced levels. You may appreciate that Ivo has delved deeply into the association between the soul of technology and the spirit of humanity. Example: from the post I Click Therefore I am, Toward Outsourcing our Identity:

Our identities are becoming ever more fluid, we feel affiliated with various situations with only a part of ourselves. The real communities of family and friends too are now more like windows which maybe we would prefer to also manage in our computers. Lifelogging projects want to extend the scope of our life activities which are processed and managed online.

The questions raised by Ivo in his superbly crafted articles (indeed, they go beyond the scope of just posts) beg the reader to examine his/her place before the computer, the TV, the blackberry or bluetooth. Can you go a bit deeper and think about words like anonymity, global consciousness, and social networking in the context of this paragraph from Wireless communication and reality mining as a reflection of pervasive consciousness:

La comunicazione senza fili e il reality mining come riflesso della consapevolezza globale

I observed that through our technological achievements humans unconsciously attempt to produce realms that emulate more advanced psychological and spiritual levels of human development, levels that can’t be reached by the conceptual mind. What is achieved through technology is a simulation of the mystical conditions of a global mind that pervades the universe. The longing toward rejoining with the global mind is felt by every human being, but when we still identify ourselves with our individual ego and mind, we can’t abandon those and be embraced by a wider mind. Nonetheless we unconsciously perceive a faint echo of the spiritual global realms and we construct through technology a simulated reflection of a pervasive conscious universe. This pale reflection on the technological level won’t threaten our individual ego, still not ready to melt with the global consciousness.

True to form, Ivo explores connection on levels within levels; The self, the input and output, the social sphere, the spiritual realm, the physical realm, sexual intimacy… connection implies firewire in all necessary channels to achieve a higher level. From the post Disembodying at Broadband Speed:

Our sense of personal identities is much connected to the presence of our body and its feedbacks. Mystics say that when a person becomes spiritually enlightened, the connection with his body/mind is not the same as before since the identification with our limited structures is being replaced by a wider embrace.

I suspect that Ivo is something of a bibliophile, as you will find quotes and ideas from a variety of books, some of which may just inspire you to check them out from your local library. Whether or not you feel a connection with Indranet, Ivo’s search for integrated awareness as presented to his readers provides a refreshing look at the technology of humanity from a luminary’s perspective. Many thanks to you Ivo!

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This unification process of internal energies didn’t come as a “technical” skill, but as giving light with awareness at what was preventing the integration of the heart and the body. And much of what I saw in myself was rooted in collective religious conditionings, even though I had not personally been much conditioned in that sense. Those collective messages are stronger than our personal or family histories; they are just in the thoughts sphere that is breathed in by everyone.