"The Consciousness Singularity" by Shawn Mikula Options

[Shawn]

from http://brainmeta.com/index.php?p=singularity

What is the Singularity? Different people mean different things by this term. For me, the Singularity refers to the point of time in the future when human consciousness, at both the personal and species level, experiences an abrupt transition, a phase transition of sorts, into a state of transcendence that is conceptually impossible for us to imagine "what it's like" with our current limited cognitive abilities.

My usage of the term "Singularity" is an analogy to the well-known singularity in physics, the black hole, where you cannot see beyond the event horizon because light cannot escape from it. In a similar manner, we cannot see (or imagine) what's beyond the consciousness Singularity because it's beyond our cognitive (or imaginative) capabilities.

Imagine, if you will, what a monkey would experience if suddenly it's consciousness became like that of a human. Before the transition, the monkey would be incapable of imagining what it's like to be human simply because it's beyond it's cognitive capabilities. In the same way, I believe our species will undergo such transitions in our consciousness of such magnitude that we cannot even begin to imagine what these new states of consciousness are like.

At the Singularity, history as we know it, will cease. The universe, as we experience it now, will cease. Consider the most transcendent and mystical states of consciousness that have yet been experienced by mankind: these will pale in comparison with what's to come! This is the Singularity. And there won't be just one Singularity, but many, as consciousness overcomes and transcends itself, over and over again.

Our consciousness will be expanded beyond the confines of an egocentric sense of self to include transpersonal experiences and transcendent self-identity. This new existence will be both a form of collective consciousness and a form of expanded individual consciousness. Though sounding like a contradiction, realize that these two descriptions of transcendent consciousness are really two sides of the same coin. The Singularity is so far beyond our experience and knowledge today that we cannot even begin to comprehend it, unless we ourselves experience transcendent states of consciousness.

How do we realize the Singularity? How do we experience transcendent states of consciousness? See http://brainmeta.com/index.php?p=expandconsciousness for an answer.

[joe]

Shawn
 I wish you well in your endeavors. However I must also tell you that consciousness born of the infinite can extend into the infinite, your belief that it hasn't been done is still relative only to your own experiences. Manipulation of the brain to peak into the windows of the many facets of that will be something that I'm sure will be entertaining.
What you keep describing in the process of Meditation and the experiences that are gained by touching various states of awareness is not the same as the process Yoga or union with Consciousness. Niether is the multidimensional peeking into alternate realities by chemical or mechanical manipulation to step out of a familar concept or reality and then step into an unknown reality. This is already done with psychtropic drugs and although it has expanding effects it doesn't anchor the awareness into the familiarity of its Self. It would be more akin to taking a vacation and collecting memories than becoming aware of the Self.
I will still say that without Union of the Self and awareness the infinite is only an idea that holds too many limited concepts. This I know from personal experience. To limit the mind in its ability to naturally experience the self without external manipulation is one of the many ideas that humans dream of in rising above Gods flaw in creation to overcome their independant inability to realize God within. So the dream goes on to try and discover the flaw that God has created and to find the cure for that which they are disconnected from.
Any experience you have had that leaves you both in doubt of the validity of the experience or the inability to connect with the infinite was either less than what you are capable of, or misinterpreted by your own expectations which always always blind the sight to the many things that are in front of one who has a "vision" or expectation, of the infinite.
Infinite Bliss or the experience of God and all multidimensional realities is available to anyone, as is any drug that can be manufactured, all within the mind and bodies natural capabilities. It is very much possible to unite the unmanifest with the manifest. What you focus on grows, any disbelief is always a part of the whole that when left out in the realm of possibilities leaves the whole incomplete.
I am not saying your theories are incorrect but you will still need to stabilize the awareness within the infinite once the mind is altered. Those that will have already altered and stabilized their awareness naturally will probably be the ones to help lead the manipulated conscious clones into stability. To throw the awareness from the ego's singular reference point of its self in relationship to an external 3 dimensional reality into the awareness of itself as multidimensional without a stabilizing process will be a fascinating approach. I remember my best  trips with Laboratory grade LSD and my inability to integrate my normal way of thinking or orientation  into the new experience. I didn't want to include it. Rejecting any dimensional form is still duality, and prejudice an any form limits God in all its aspects whether mundane or supermundane God cannot be limited.
There is an interesting book written by a researcher of consciousness in Florida called The Pillar of Celestial Fire. His research is dedicated to a process of ancient alchemy that has been deciphered from Egyptian heiroglyphs and other historical translations. The process is the taking of certain herbs and precious metals like Gold and platinum and growing a particular element that when ingested while placing the body within a particular type of vibrational chamber causes the awareness to change permanently.
Instant enlightenment.
His theory is that combined with the ever increasing rate of knowledge the reawakening of these processes that were used in the past during the last Dwarpa Yuga cycle of the present universe will produce 3 levels of conscious beings. The ones that were able to do this naturally, ones that have assisted themselves with the chemical alteration combined with a focused process of inward reflection and the ones that have been altered chemically without any stabilization process or dipping into the experiences of higher awareness. The order of hierarchy being in order of what I have described.
God not being democratic, those that reside in a human body will naturally follow the direction of the one infinite consciousness and the clearest source or connection to that will be the order of priests that are seated in permanent union at the highest levels. Even though they, (the 3 different described levels) will experience union it would follow the idea that a Journeyman would have more experience than the apprentice.

Although there are similarities to what you are describing and what your fellow conscious researcher is describing I'm sure you have your own ideas about whether there will be any hierarchy or not based on your present experiences which are sure to evolve with time.

I'm sure God needs all the help he can get.