Aggregators to the Rescue!
A revolution in human consciousness is happening right now—can you feel it?
We live in a very exciting time of change, and some wonderfully illuminating discoveries are happening on the inner landscape of humanity right now that will be of greater benefit to future generations and the planet. While the noisy and heartbreaking upheaval and divisions pull most of our attention and so many of us feel powerless, a new, more unified paradigm is naturally emerging in parallel as an organic result of the information era. This paradigm offers an alternative path to fear and chaos and an approach that allows each of us to regain our personal power to bless ourselves and those around us, and humanity itself, with a brighter future even now.
While we all have days where we feel we are standing at the brink of human destruction, I’d like to invite you to try out a thought experiment: consider for a moment that you are actually part of a pioneer generation, and that future children will be taught about this historic consciousness shift you are currently experiencing. Contemplate the possibility that there is a way to ride this wild shift with less daily stress, fear, and confusion, and a more positive vision for the Earth’s future based on practical experience.
From “Information Overload” to “Aggregation Download”
With our heads down in the daily worries and headlines, its easy to miss a bigger emerging picture—we now have a flood of fascinating information we have never had about ourselves as a collective group of humans. The exponential rise in information for the past three decades has given rise to an unprecedented level of correlation across cultures, place, and time. Self-driven, curious students across a wide range of disciplines are diving deep into niche subjects of interest then emerging to share their aggregated information and collaborate and integrate with others doing the same thing.
The integration of all this information between aggregators is creating an interesting perspective on the human race increasingly being validated across many areas of study. Groups of millions around the world are right this moment pioneering positive action based on a new frontier of information about consciousness—what we are, how our inner systems work, what we’re capable of, and how we can together take a more positive path from the inside.
This unified paradigm aligns a diverse range of perspectives in a simplified centerpoint beyond beliefs or opinions. This perspective allows folks of faith to strengthen and act on that faith, while providing secular folks with a practical way forward to uplift the world and strengthen their inner trust.
A Scientist, a Psychonaut, and a Meditation Master Walked into a Bar . . .
On the academic side, those studying the external human landscape—historians, anthropologists, physicists, biologists, and theologians, among many other fields—are now actively and excitedly correllating intersecting data. Once-solid boundaries are dissolving to allow the discovery of common cosmologies that affirm one another. Renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s groundbreaking research explains why once one human breaks any record—such as the 4 minute mile—more humans suddenly start being able to match it as well. A collective database we all have access to, likely based on frequency (like a radio station), has been discovered. Brilliant analysis on this idea of collective consciounsess and resonance theory as a viable biological reality rather than simply fluffy esotericism, to me, is a front-page worthy revelation. It would be earth-changing if widely understood. (This wonderful Scientific American article is a wonderful place to start: “The Hippies Were Right: Everything is Vibrations, Man.”)
Meanwhile, students on the inner path exploring the internal human landscape have also been aggregating and discovering a shared experience. Meditators, contemplatives, devotees, visionaries, lovers of transcendence through art, nature, music, connection, beauty, etc. are finding common ground with psychonauts who explore consciousness with mind altering plants and hallucinogenic experiences. Both of these are seeing similar experiences in the staggering number of now well-documented death experience stories now skyrocketing—primarily due to our amazing advances in resuscitative medicine.
Then, amazingly, a vast global library of ancient traditional knowledge on human consciousness suddenly burst forth upon the collective in just the past three years—an unexpected result of the COVID lockdowns. To my utter shock and joy, vast amounts of highly specific information about ancient indigenous, shamanic, and theistic and non-theistic global religious traditions has also been pouring into the world from every corner of the Earth. Lineage holders are assigned people, often within ancestral cultures or monastic orders, tasked with protecting and passing down their wisdom traditions through systematic, long-term, in-person training for years and even whole lifetimes. Teachings are often kept secret to protect them from dilution, distortion, and misuse over time, with the purpose of keeping them wholly intact for millenia to benefit future humanity.
These ancient roadmaps from every continent overlap and integrate in such a beautiful way with both the inner and outer research being done.
As someone who has spent a great deal of time studying all of these areas, I see the map of shared human consciousness becoming clearer, more integrated and statistically significant. I would argue, obvious. From my view, scientific discoveries about our smallest forms of measurable reality and the behavior of our universe are validating cosmologies described in ancient root texts from every continent and the personal experiences of millions now on the planet.
The Big Dharma Firesale . . .
Dharma is another word for reality, wisdom, the gospel, the truth of the whole of what is. It’s mindblowing that we now have advanced courses offered on Zoom (with translation!) taught by elders and lineage holders from many far-flung and typically highly closed traditions around the world. The new discoveries in just the past decade are astonishing as different types of aggregators are now being aggregated themselves—allowing a curious student to sit down and understand the global patterns emerging between the most remote and secluded groups within a single book.
Often, two reasons are stated for why these reclusive wisdom elders across the world are suddenly streaming online advanced information, tools, and practices that have been kept safe for literally thousands of years, as for many of them public sharing in this way would be considered unthinkable and a desecration in earlier times.
- First, because they felt the knowledge and tools were so greatly needed in these dark days where so much of our self-understanding as humans has been lost, and that humans need knowledge of and access to their innate navigation tools. (In an incredible number of these cases, just like winter follows autumn, they already knew this part of the cycle was coming, or stated they were told in dream or vision to share it.)
- Second, many lineage holders currently see a dire threat of their own destruction and feel that the knowledge must stay available to future generations in some form, even if not kept perfectly intact by themselves. Sharing in this way is justified simply to protect the information from total loss.
I cannot overemphasize what this means to humanity. The value in deeply studying just any one of these ancient traditions is immense. But to be able to deeply “download” the essence of so many of the Earth’s diverse traditions through a passionate, curious group of aggregators is something that no human before has ever had access to.
Understanding the bigger picture coming forward makes an actual, practical, dramatic shift in humanity actually possible—it shows the way out of our current predicament. It truly lays the logical, practical groundwork for universal joy and peace. In studying this vast array of human history, one also realizes the staggering hubris of our current myopic society—which sees itself ever at the summit of human understanding, even as we increasingly discover lost knowledge and technologies we can’t now even begin to explain within the limits of our current knowledge and measurement tools.
What a privilege it has been to drink from a firehose of wisdom from these highly developed humans now sharing their long-held ancestral information about consciounsess, the past, and the future of humanity. A study of as many of these ways of perceiving as possible allows a person to step into every number on the clock and look back at the center, we broaden our perception of the whole. We become wiser.
Remembering Who We Are
In so many ways we have lost almost every sense of what we are, what a human is, and how to operate this vehicle we all operate. It is important to understand the limitations of our given system of language and perception—a language does not have words for things its speakers do not know exist. To study other cultures and traditions is to have entirely new possibilities opened to us. To be aware of the edges of our awareness is to open up to a much larger universe. Otherwise, we get stuck in the idea that the borders of our thinking are the borders of the universe.
Consider a simple example. Did you know that what we consider the “scientific” five senses in the west are actually a cultural construct, not a biological one? Much of the east considers six, and count consciousness among the Western five. Yet other traditions bring in several others. For instance, the Anlo culture in Africa teaches nine senses, one of which is balance–the ability to balance things both physically (as you often see in photos with even small children carrying large items atop their head hands free), psychologically, and over the whole of their life.
To study other systems doesn’t need to be perceived as a challenge to our own teachings or ideas. Instead it can open our eyes to a new way of seeing more of our world.
Aggregating Unity: The Trend That Isn’t Trending on Twitter
Well to be honest, unity consciousness is kind of trending on Twitter.
Still, perhaps you may not be aware that there has been a tremendous uptick of spontaneous “unity experiences” reported across the globe by more and more people of all ages, genders, traditions, and beliefs. This is also fueling more aggregation and conversation online, as they seek for understanding and context for their experience and find it is actually a very common human experience mapped out, cultivated, and mastered by humans for thousands of years. It can happen listening to music, in prayer, being outside or with animals, or completely randomly for no apparent reason.
It can be disorienting. It can bring a sense of bliss, an end to fear, a sense of truly being a cell within God, of seeing all beings as one beloved, interconnected being that encompasses everything, and yet that everything is mirrored within every component of it, an Indra’s Net. Without a friend on the inner path, the dissonance with this experience and daily regular life can over time lead to confusion, self-isolation, faith transition, and depression. Thankfully there are ancient texts that can walk you right through these stages and help you integrate it (e.g., Dongshan’s Five Ranks), but I fear that many westerners who encounter it suffer needlessly and can feel crazy and alone.
Far from being isolated in the privacy of our own inner “imaginary world,” students are coming together to find a tsunami of evidence that they are navigating a similar internal landscape and stages of awareness.
Navigating the Inner Landscape: The Body is Your Key
My area of aggregation and study centers around esoteric human traditions and inner path schools that train students how to healing both oneself on all levels, and healing the Human as a whole. Having studied and compared and combined a wide range of tools and methods, this line of interest is powerful and self-verifiable to me. That’s mainly what this repository is for.
Across the traditions, the student is trained on how to use the human body as an instrument, much like a musical instrument. The student is trained in how to:
- quiet the mind (find calm and stability)
- focus the attention
- develop nondual awareness
- generate universal compassion, and
- manipulate the vibration and current flow of the body’s electromagnetic field to acheive certain experiences, states, as well as to heal the self and others
- discover the true nature of the self, reality, and/or connect with the divine whole.
As with Qi Gong or Kung Fu and all of the martial and mental arts of Asia, this is a matter of training and practice, not belief or ideas. The inner work is a work done from within the body, using the body. Simply by being an aggregator, I always run the risk of oversimplification. But the beauty is that anyone can jump down their specific rabbit hole of interest and validation if they want to know more. If there is any specific topic I talk about that you want to read more on, I’m happy to point you to my favorite source documents.
From Mystical to Practical
Remember when doctors refused to wash their hands because they were “rational” materialists? Remember how people who believed in tiny little things too small to see that caused illness were irrational mystic witches?
Here’s some pretty straight science—Humans perceive <1% of the spectrums of vibration that humans can measure with the human tools they’ve developed thus far, which they concede may only be 1% of the actual spectrum of what’s out there to be perceived. Researchers continually expand the limits of the known spectrum.
Put simply, we are completely interconnected and interacting with each other and our wider universal environment all the time on subtle levels. And this can be recognized and worked with to grow our potential.
When we meditate or pray or be still, we let the snow globe settle, and we get more sensitive to other information. In fact, we expand our sensory range as we do this. Just like a person without sight hears better (and even can learn to echolocate!) silence, listening, training and practice can self-verifiably enhance your standard human ability.
From Inside to Outside
The most powerful way we interact with each other through these more subtle wavelengths is through our thoughts—and now we can magnetically measure our thoughts several inches away from the skull, just as we used to with electrical measurements only in the skull previously. We know we are receivers, always gathering data through our senses, and we know we are transmitters when we put words and actions out into the world, but yep, even those thoughts themselves are transmitting farther, and with more effect, that we ever thought was the case.
It’s self verifiable that our thoughts are impacted by other’s thoughts. We feel this just in our interpersonal relationships. Being around negative people impacts our own thoughts negatively. It’s infectious. I’ve read of some cultures where negative people are shunned like a leper–it’s seen as an infectious poison that removes joy and gratitude. And the reverse is true. The increasing evidence toward resonance theory demonstrates that it is possible for even a minority of humans (an estimated 2-3%) to intentionally uplift the whole of us substantially through focused attention and consciousness work alone.
