EvConch links I'm sending @reverician after our epic convo today after Experimental Church about transindividuation, religion, living wholes high-level overview by me of what I think is going on with the evolution of consciousness (EvConch)
Reading list on evolution of consciousness, religion, and living wholes
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The Snake Cult of Consciousness: Genesis, myths, the origin of self-reference and thereby self-hood
Preconquest Consciousness: anthropology as an epistemological problem epistemology as an anthropological problem
Planetary scale vibe collapse: The death of liminal consciousness as the origin of human suffering riffs on Preconquest Consciousness and duality+ego as part of the same memeplex
on a different arc, here's @utotranslucence's short story reconciling parts of her relationship with christianity and the joys and pains it carries in her lineage autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/the…
Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred has a beautiful take on the sacredness of the cosmos as being in its inexhaustible irreducible unpredictable creativity no need for Creator, universe itself is creative book: amzn.to/3xQZLkm
a more agentic flavour of what might be meant by an omnibenevolent most-powerful-though-not all-powerful agent we might well call God the biggest living whole? this is usually what I pray to in the context of wanting to serve and be cared for by God
the concept of exaptation, which I first heard of in Stuart Kauffman's book, is closely connected with one of the most astonishingly beautiful shapes/forces I have ever perceived. here's me evoking it: (talks of differentiation+integration too) youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
Original Spin is a meta-meme from me & @Morphenius that encourages shifting the sense of self to a more grounded place. wanna share this in church; relates to Jesus/salvation (click through for video; check desc for a good starting point halfway through)
.......okay that should do for now. oh wait one more! we read an excerpt from this as the Memetics Reading at the first church service in march. it's... importantly confused (haven't written up my critique yet) but was a KEY development in my thinking
oh also since we went as deep as we did here's a thread of mine at the edge of my thinking on a bunch of these topics, from last summer: (these insights are still close to my edge on some axes tbh, and beyond-edge / not fully integrated on others)