Apr 5, 2025 06:25 PM
Authors for centuries have anticipated in mankind the evolution of a new kind of Being---of a transcendental Mind that will arise from the collective unity of humans all over the planet. I call this philosophy Eschatological Transhumanism, a spirituality firmly grounded in the material universe yet imagined towards a wholly novel level of consciousness or intelligence that transcends matter and biological brains. It takes many different forms: of Ray Kurzweil's information Singularity in which the AI will become infinite its intelligence. Of the Noosphere, of a layer of universal consciousness and imagination existing independently of the individual minds of humans. Of the gnostic simulation theory, wherein one is trapped inside a reality that is an illusion and must find a means of "waking" oneself out of it. And of the New Age Ascension, in which humanity will transcend their physical bodies into a higher dimension of being and consciousness.
The visionary poet and mystic William Blake conceived of this future eschatological state of mankind as an allegorical city wherein all is imagination and beauty and light:
"Golgonooza is Blake’s name for the city of the Imagination, “ever building, ever falling”—the continual process of both spiritual and physical transformation through which humanity forges a space for its own liberation and self-realisation – and therefore, for Blake, for the realisation of God. “All imaginative and creative acts,” notes Northrop Frye, create Golgonooza, “the total form of all human culture and civilisation”. It is a city because it is conscious, collaborative, and collective."--- https://thehumandivine.org/projects/
Another thinker, French paleontologist Teilhard De Chardin, conceived of human destiny in terms of arriving at what he called the Omega Point, defined as such:
"The definition of Omega Point, as Chardin saw it, is the point at which human consciousness, in a collective Jungian sense, turns in upon itself. Not a single enlightened being like Christ or Buddha, but all of human consciousness perceives that it is divine, and in that flash instant of recognition of human divinity, human consciousness no longer exists. All that is left is divine consciousness."---
https://www.omegapointinstitute.org/omega-point-about
The 20th century Austrian poet Rilke seemed to allude to a merging of human being with a deeper more universal materiality that itself is evolving towards "invisibility":
"We are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.
Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?"---Rainier Maria Rilke
The term "transhumanism" itself was coined by Aldous Huxley's brother, the evolutionary biologist and First Director-General of UNESCO, Julian Huxley (1887–1975):
"I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny. --("Transhumanism." Julian Huxley. In New Bottles for New Wine, pp 13-17. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957).
Psychedelic pioneer and thinker Terrence McKenna described in detail his own version of eschatological Transhumanism:
"What we see is that time and becoming is not entirely driven by the consequences of the past. This is the philosophy which reigns in the world of three-dimensional space. But in higher-dimensional modalities it is possible to contact something which I sometimes call the great attractor, sometimes the transcendental object at the end of time, and sometimes the big surprise. In other words, one can discover within one’s self something that is not pushing us from behind into a frightening and unknowable future, but something which is actually calling to us from the future and casting a waving and flickering shadow down into the lower-dimensional slice of ordinary reality.
Now, people such as ourselves largely have been phobic of this concept, because it’s been under the control of beady-eyed little priests for centuries and centuries, and they have used it as an argument for a laundry list of moral dos and don’ts, which is a complete perversion of what it is. What it is, is uh the attractor, or the Omega Point, or the transcendental object at the end of time. It is the lost portion of ourselves. It’s the portion of ourselves that we left behind when we made the descent into matter and physicality that being a thing made of meat and bone and nerve entails. And most people—at least in these secular high-tech democracies—have so lost touch with this that they never lay eyes on it again until they close their eyes for the last time."---- https://www.organism.earth/library/docum...-of-nature
The visionary poet and mystic William Blake conceived of this future eschatological state of mankind as an allegorical city wherein all is imagination and beauty and light:
"Golgonooza is Blake’s name for the city of the Imagination, “ever building, ever falling”—the continual process of both spiritual and physical transformation through which humanity forges a space for its own liberation and self-realisation – and therefore, for Blake, for the realisation of God. “All imaginative and creative acts,” notes Northrop Frye, create Golgonooza, “the total form of all human culture and civilisation”. It is a city because it is conscious, collaborative, and collective."--- https://thehumandivine.org/projects/
Another thinker, French paleontologist Teilhard De Chardin, conceived of human destiny in terms of arriving at what he called the Omega Point, defined as such:
"The definition of Omega Point, as Chardin saw it, is the point at which human consciousness, in a collective Jungian sense, turns in upon itself. Not a single enlightened being like Christ or Buddha, but all of human consciousness perceives that it is divine, and in that flash instant of recognition of human divinity, human consciousness no longer exists. All that is left is divine consciousness."---
https://www.omegapointinstitute.org/omega-point-about
The 20th century Austrian poet Rilke seemed to allude to a merging of human being with a deeper more universal materiality that itself is evolving towards "invisibility":
"We are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.
Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?"---Rainier Maria Rilke
The term "transhumanism" itself was coined by Aldous Huxley's brother, the evolutionary biologist and First Director-General of UNESCO, Julian Huxley (1887–1975):
"I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny. --("Transhumanism." Julian Huxley. In New Bottles for New Wine, pp 13-17. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957).
Psychedelic pioneer and thinker Terrence McKenna described in detail his own version of eschatological Transhumanism:
"What we see is that time and becoming is not entirely driven by the consequences of the past. This is the philosophy which reigns in the world of three-dimensional space. But in higher-dimensional modalities it is possible to contact something which I sometimes call the great attractor, sometimes the transcendental object at the end of time, and sometimes the big surprise. In other words, one can discover within one’s self something that is not pushing us from behind into a frightening and unknowable future, but something which is actually calling to us from the future and casting a waving and flickering shadow down into the lower-dimensional slice of ordinary reality.
Now, people such as ourselves largely have been phobic of this concept, because it’s been under the control of beady-eyed little priests for centuries and centuries, and they have used it as an argument for a laundry list of moral dos and don’ts, which is a complete perversion of what it is. What it is, is uh the attractor, or the Omega Point, or the transcendental object at the end of time. It is the lost portion of ourselves. It’s the portion of ourselves that we left behind when we made the descent into matter and physicality that being a thing made of meat and bone and nerve entails. And most people—at least in these secular high-tech democracies—have so lost touch with this that they never lay eyes on it again until they close their eyes for the last time."---- https://www.organism.earth/library/docum...-of-nature