Excellent Dr. Chopra!

Now why would we have to dissolve the nuclear family just to recognize, and act upon, the fact that this world, and all the inhabitants thereupon, are our nuclear family.

Are you conservatives still trying to incite war with that "evil" Russian government?!?

Let us get rid of the evil U.S. government first brother Amba . . .

:)

Peace

I miss you Craig!!

Family integrity, national integrity must and will continue my brother. That's a radical thought for this blog.

I hope you are doing better, sorry I haven't responded much, in fact this is too much on this blog, just couldn't resist a little stir up, otherwise it gets a little boring here.

Love ,

Amba

"The human brain will die if partitioned into separate regions without communication, and in turn the body will die." bery interesting!

and we are assuming that some humans have a brain? like those (neanderthals) who decided to invade without thought of the dire consequences...damn!

Who the hell is CRAIG!?!?

Do you like that? thats the jealous bitch act!

Love

Empyrius is Craig!

You missed the fun during the early days of IB.

Nice act

Steve

"The majority of Americans understand that global thinking is the only survival mode we have left to us."

AH! That the point Dr. Chopra!

you hit the nail on the head..or should I say, drilled a nail into the skull and touched the brain?

"survival" and 'self-preservation'

wait a minute....didn't you say..."Otherwise, we find ourselves in a repeat of the age-old struggle between the lower and higher brain."

some circularity in the argument?

Well...my brain has gone numb...carry on...

Craig is me! Empyrius is the fiery one who inhabits the uppermost of celestial heights, whose aflamed physicality seeks union with the unknowable Ein-sof just beyond, beyond but also within, us all.

Just type in "empyrius" (w/o the quotation marks of course) in thy browser and Elijah, er, well uh, me you shall find!

Nice to meet you Tammy.

Yeah Amba I go over to Townhall once a while and kick up some dust (boy o boy, those people get irate!!!).

Peace

Excellent post by Deepak.

--Individuals need to think outside ethnic and national borders.

Of course they need, but that's unlikely to happen. People have remarkable ability to feel hostility towards other people just because they are of different nationality/faith/skin color/sexual orientation/etc. I don't know about America, but here in Poland too many people are prejudiced against other nations because of outdated historical reasons, or thanks to false stereotypes, or just because other don't like those nations too. I don't see then doing "global thinking" anytime soon.

I think I'll just go next-door and have a friendly chat with the neighbours for a start. What a pain!

Like wise Craig, the pleasure is mine!

amber...makes no sense!

Dear Deepak

You might wish to recheck your facts re: "The U. S. continues to be the leading polluter of the atmosphere..." FYI China has now surpassed the US. Not sure that's something to be proud of, but true nevertheless, and it all ends up in California.

More Chinese lead paint in your children's toys and toothpaste that kills? Anyone?

Bonnie

Interesting posts....thanks all.

now bushman has only two loyal amigos left! amber is one....whoahahahahahahahahaha.....hahawhoa!.....

D. did you google Dalits?

Please do my friend.

Your vision is getting very narrow.

dude...u are losing it...correction...u have already lost it...damn! trollish?

we are looking for a dalit at the love ranch ...dude...u are more than welcome to apply...ur chances of getting it are pretty good! damn!

reading Chopra does make me lose it :)

"Diablo" is THE troll at intentblog for sometime now. Admin, kindly you may kick him out again...make it 4 weeks this time, if not for good.

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Ambasteve:
"How about making this cause that was so dear to Gandhiji, a #1 priority instead of strange theories that simply don't make sense."

Deepak shows meagre understanding of social problems in China and India. He sees their emerging economic progress... Pakistan is growing sometimes faster than India in the recent years for that matter.

Deepak's theories are of global proportions but sadly his vision is not even realistic to the ground realities of the US.

hypocrite...damn! thanks for the love!

realities for a change?

http://www.bhookh.com/

7,000 die everyday due to 'hunger' alone in India. (2,500,000 a year)

Must be pretty damn slow at the love ranch tonight?
What was the topic again? "A brain scan of the global cat" HEEHAW! let the chattin begin!

Love

Dear Ashwin

You say 7,000 people a day die in India. Do you have any statistics on how many are born each day?

Bonnie

I quoted deaths due to 'hunger' for food, not births due to 'hunger' for sex.

My estimation is that about 60,000 are born a day in India.

About 20,000 die a day.

Out of which a significant number are hunger and poverty related deaths... and also a good number of suicides by farmers in recent years.

What I need is a good ole "Redneck Women"!

Yee-haw!

Peace

Dear Deepak,

I read an article in one of our newspapers today that was written in such a way that one can find oneself back in the "universal" line of thoughts of the main character in this article: top director Zhang Yimou.

At this moment he is preparing himself for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in 2008 with a large staged drama containing light effects, music and dance that will bring forth the history of 5000 years of China.

In his beginning years as a director, he started his visional quest with critical themes like suppressed women and sad, unemployed, people. But he definitely left this path in 2002 to go working on his movie Hero. He made two more movies of this so-called "art of fighting" genre (the Hero's quest).

At the same time Zhang came into the picture as a propagandist. He made two polished promotion movies which actually resulted in China receiving two prestigious events: The Olympic Games 2008 and the World Exhibition in 2010.

This is the international recognition China is longing for and this director is (imho opinion) placed at exactly the "right" moment in time to achieve it.

For me the quest for recognition is a universal theme and totally in line with the contents of your thread.

Mieke

waylay...

ur comments are absurd...what are u a hunter? looking for skeletons in the closet? dude...give ur noggin a good shake..damn!

hithereall,

The global brain, right now, is a little over stimulated, imho, and it may be in need of some of those "brain drugs" to help calm it down, relieve the pressure...no, the global brain is not in a very healthy state right now....let us hope it knows how to take some deep, deep breaths and count to 10 or that the "happy drugs" are dispensed before it self-destructs.

Steve writes,"Family integrity, national integrity must and will continue my brother. That's a radical thought for this blog....

Interesting comment....let me see if I understand you correctly....here at IB we do not believe in national or family integrity? IB does not value it? IB hates the family and Nation?

Hmmmmm....what exactly is Steve saying about IB with this comment?

Does having National Integrity mean standing by your Nation's Government even when it is clearly wrong? Does having Family Integrity mean being against those who have a different idea of what a family is or means? Does family Integrity mean denying women their freedom of choice over their own bodies?

I wonder what Steve means....does he think he has more family integrity and National integrity than others at IB?

I wonder....so Steve....I take it you know and live family and national integrity since you have obviously decided that it is too rational a thought here at IB....

So, let me guess.....it is the view of the "left" in this Nation to do all they can to discontinue America's National and Family integrity! Yes, I am learning the "talk" I have watched FOX NEWS and it seems every sentence begins with..something like this, "it is all the fault of the "LEFT," those ingrates, the low-lifes of our political system, those war hating idealists, those gay-loving, bible hating, child killing, "Leftists," if only....every American could be a FOX NEWS loving American....we could conquer the World, the Supreme Court, and whip the House and Senate in oblivion, the pests that they are! hahahaha

sorry, Steve, but I just love your comments sometimes....they seem so self-rightous sometimes.

just funnin with you...as usual.....have a wonderful day.....you.....way...over...there....on the RIGHT.

ruth

all the other school shootings since Columbine are, in a way, the copy cat results of it...
which means...what's the point in the media reporting these sick events? maybe they should stop reporting them to avoid copy cats! but can they be forced by the feds to do so?

Sorry Deepak, you're all over the map with this one...do you read back these things or just ditty them out when your busy schedule gives you chance?

"If it's true that every individual brain is like a single neuron in the global brain, we are all connected at an invisible level."

Actually, the neurons have physical connections to each other in the brain, just like the telephone lines are all connected across North America.

At a less metaphorical level, human beings are all extremely similar to each other genetically and in terms of brain development. So while different cultures have different styles of dealing with life's challenges, the challenges themselves are similar: how to survive, feed your self and a family, housing needs, educational needs, etc. There's probably 10,000 different ways to say "Johnny, pick up your toys!" around the planet, but the meaning is still "Johnny, pick up your toys." The difference in language doesn't necessarily mean they are saying things that much different from each other.

So the odds are that humans will come up with similar solutions because they face similar problems, and they themselves are similar in terms of their brains, hands, and cognitive thinking capabilities. In other words, the deck is stacked, so it's no miracle two aces fall close to each other.

If there are connections, and I think there are, it is through the genetic structures. In other words, the connections are through the "inside" - through the physical inner development carried by genetic code and then later by cultural development, augmented by individual learning - not because some individual is functioning as an antenna to receive telepathic broadcasts from someone else 10,000 miles away.

This is a complex issue, and there's a lot of confusion, because it just may be true that our universe is contained in its own field. The presence of "background" radiation may be evidence that we are all connected by a field.

But that's a very unproven assumption, and what the nature and properties of that field are (other than that it propagates the background radiation) are pretty much unknown.

Maybe we are like fish connected by the oceans' water, which we breathe and live our lives in. It does not follow however, that fish of the coast of Australia are telepathically communicating through the ocean water with fish in Cape Cod. So I don't think it follows that humans are telepathically communicating through the air, even if the air we breathe connects us.

And that was just the first sentence...oy!...

The true reality (substance) cannot be known by an examination of it's shadow.
Todd

Neural networks arise and subside in the brain along with specific types of experience much like all the other phenomena in the world or even universe. Like breathing in and out or ocean waves arising then subsiding.
Todd

Dr Cialdini's research indicates that people strongly relate to news about people they feel similar too. Extreme example is these school massacres. Other, more common, are suicides. According to that research every reported suicide results in many more (mainly of people of the same gender, age, background, etc.). We are not aware of the true scale of this, because many of those suicides are classified as "accidents" - a person simply drives a car and crashes into a tree on purpose. In a way it is similar to the suicide wave that swept through Germany in XVIII century after publication of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther".

The whole thing resembles that "global consciousness" that Deepak writes about. But that's a negative consciousiousness. Bad things happen all the time and it seems they are contagious. Now the question is: can anything be done with that?

Every analysis ultimately ends with the dissolution of the analysis itself.
Todd

Dear Qui,

At #38:
"But that's a negative consciousiousness"
"Now the question is: can anything be done with that?"

My reply to that last question is yes.

But it can only be done by the person that becomes aware of his/her OWN negative consciousness :) Because then you can ask yourself the question: what if I changed my own negative consciousness into a more positive one? What would happen, if i am able to do this, in my own life?

Let's try and find out!

I did this in my life and my experience after 30 years is that changing your "perception" really works. You discover it does not only work in your personal life but has its influence on your surroundings too.

Of course it takes quite some time to find balance in the two ways of consciousness and to be able to be and stay somewhere in the middle.

But when there exists a global negative consciousness, its counterpart must exist too!

Mieke

And then dear Todd, every analysis ultimately ends with the dissolution of the analysis itself :)

And when you are at that level, no communication is needed anymore

Love from the heart phone

Mieke

"On a more mundane level, there is the sudden emergence of copper mining and smelting in parts of the world that occurred at the same time in widely diverse locations."

And how about the technology of nuclear bomb emerging in different nations within a span of 100 years?

How about the iron tools not reaching Americas until the Europeans arrived?

How about the modern concept of zero that emerged in India as a single source?

How about domestication of wheat and barely (agriculture) and goat, sheep and pig - native to the fertile crescent of middle east - for the first time 12,000 BC - spread to rest of the Eurasia in a few thousand years?

How about technology of iron mining (a byproduct of surplus food with agriculture and large communities that could supports specialists like artists and innovators) which also began in the fertile crescent and then spread to other parts of Eurasia which were on the same latitudes with similar vegetation and day length?

Why were the Austrailan aborigines in practical stone age? (of course no big native domesticable farm animals and none of the major cereal crops)

We don't need a speculative Global Brain theory to understand these.

"Not because some individual is functioning as an antenna to receive telepathic broadcasts from someone else 10,000 miles away."

Ya what?

Please pass the milk..and the scrambles eggs too.

Love

And how about the technology of guns which began with the invention of gun powder in China, used in battle by the Arabs who transfered it to Europe where it was further improvised into an effective weapon with growing battle demands?

How about the technology of the swords, say the rapier used by Spanish conquistadors for great effect in battles - that took countless trails and errors over generations to reach the perfection with the alloy used & the shape of the blade to make it long, thin, sharp, hard and pliable?

How about the industrial revolution that began in Europe and spread across the world?

How about the domestication of the horse in the steppes of Central Asia?

How about the Bantu culture and language, once restricted to a small group in East African not so long ago, is the common source of almost all of the thousands of languages and cultures in Sub Saharan tropics of Africa?

We don't need a speculative Global Brain theory to understand these things.

love is food for the soul!

I wonder if this might effect the Global Brain.

It's ZULU TIME!

People are going Zulu, a new addition the the Lexicon.

Click my name or type zulu.mobi in browser.

Choose the PC version for the full report.

Here is another, One Click Revolution, may provide some globally transformative mechanisms.

OneClickRevolution.com

Zulu Time = Greenwich Mean Time = Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precision cesium atom based time standard used to coordinate activism and revolution.

Is the Pope Catholic?
Don't the rocks and stones sing with carbon14?
If the tree falls in the forest doesn't it setup a vibration?
Does the light from the sun come in wavelengths?
Aren't all our senses based on vibration sensitivity?
Don't radios, tvs, cell phones send out vibration?
Doesn't a fax lay down ink on the o wavelength and withhold the ink on the 1 wavelength?

Anyone can see that the mind sees visions, hears its own thoughts, feels a bump or tastes a glass of wine in a dream. (The bump usually wakes us up.) It models the brain. Or vice/versa.
So why all this negativity about global vibrations? We are all in this together - through common sense and common knowledge.

Just me feeling frisky today. The temp justed dropped to 39 degrees and I didn't wear a coat.

Well, I warmed up a little and now I realize I didn't elaborate my point too well.
The point is we know little about our mind and less about the universe. Yet we know our mind hears and sees, as explained before.
If it can hear and see shall we say subconscious emanations known as dreams, then it can receive collective unconscious emanations through pondering, contemplating a given problem.
It's kind of like calculus. Its already out there in the ether, but it takes a good deal of contemplation to discover it.

And furthermore, I suppose that the word uni-verse was coined by some scientist back in 1958. And I suppose "Hear O Israel..." doesn't mean "Listen up, people".
And I imagine we never heard the phrase "In the begining was the word."
And I imagine all pheneomena does not vibrate, oscillate, whirl, and twirl, creating no wavelengths whatsoever.
Well, still feeling a tad frisky I guess.

Re: post #49 the mind sees visions ...
I meant that we often see mnemonic stimuli, that is to say, when we remember a past event. Some people see visions, some other people can visualize.

The Human brain is individual in physical form and universal in the realm of consciousness. This is an old vedantic principle of India, I am glad modern spiritual teachers like Dr Chopra are talking about it as in physics today we do not understand the spiritual being of this universe, The Universe is alive every particle in it is alive , the brain gets its consciousness from the life of the universe and if live with compassion and love in our brain will be in tune with this universal energy and we may then see that the unnecessary divisions we live with on earth is sheer waste of life, we may understand and resolve most of the problems caused by humans on this planet if science today actually gives up its mechanical approach and understands the living spirit which make the universe alive,

Re post #51. Thank you. I thought maybe I was the only one caught in this virtual reality of pain and suffering.
A word is a vibration, a thought is a vibration. Our five senses perceive the physical world. Since our awareness focuses on one thing at a time, we reason out a linear progression. But if we close off the five senses, as in raja yoga, we can get to know consciousness. Its a matter of study.
Its like Deepak Chopra said, how two different people across the globe can come up with the same idea at the same time. They were probably studying some problem.

LOL rebel guru! Are you trying to chart a path counting pebbles in the footsteps of modern teachers of neo-advaita like Deepak Chopra?

"...the unnecessary divisions we live with on earth is sheer waste of life, we may understand and resolve most of the problems caused by humans on this planet..."

As long a there are suicidal tendencies hidden in the deep corners of the human psyche, aggression wouldn't end even when armed with the knowledge of 'all humans are one'. If you can kill yourself, you can kill anyone else, and that 'anyone' is still YOU!

I feel sick from all my snotty nose intellectualism.
Ode to my Guru
-from the soft rock song-

We used to laugh
We used to cry
We used to bow our heads and wonder why

Now You're gone
I have to carry on
And make the best of what You left to me

Left to me
Left to me
I need You
Like the flower needs the rain
You know I need You

We can start it all again
You know I need You
I need You
I need You

Its only words
And words are all I have
To take Your Heart away

The Perfect Oneness Community

Disclaimer: The following is a fictitious story. It doesn't refer to any person (dead or alive) or any spiritual website.

He was an introvert and an avid reader of Deepak Chopra. After finding Deepak, his isolation had become deeper, he was now, a true loner. As a tribute to his teacher, he began to call himself DC. He thought he understood all of his teacher's pronouncements. Only one of DC's sayings bothered him: "It is through relationship that we truly exist."

Despite his uneasiness in dealing with strangers, DC forced himself to share his teacher's thoughts with others, but their indifference and their occasional hostility proved too much. Dispirited, he gave up, until one day, the idea of starting a Chopra Forum came to him.

The electronic mailing list was a success. Members joined daily. Chopra's quotes proliferated, his ideas were explained and debated, and soon the Forum's membership reached 100. But this very success brought trouble, people joined that had little interest in Chopra. They quoted and discussed other teachers, they quarreled with Chopra's followers.

At first DC tolerated this, but when the dispute between one of the dissenters and a Chopra follower became too acrimonious, he announced the offender had been placed on moderation. To his surprise, many members objected and some left the forum. DC reversed his decision, but then decided that if the forum was to retain its purity, all dissension must be squashed.

He created a second identity for himself called CD and joined the forum again under this secret alias. Any time a dissenter got troublesome, CD reprimanded him in lofty tones. After the reprimand was posted, CD banned the dissenter without announcing the banning. Everyone thought CD's righteous tone had silenced the troublemaker. Using this method, he eliminated all dissenters one by one. Soon the forum regained its pristine purity.

It was not long after this that another dissatisfaction with the community insinuated itself: people were not grasping the full significancy of his messages. They responded with tangential issues which diverted attention from the central theme. CD was resuscitated to bring the discussion back on topic. But this was not enough, people still manage to muddle the issues, so more alter-egos joined the forum. Soon DC was busy five hours day, writing all those messages for his fictitious virtual personas. And yet, he had the nagging suspicion his readers were still being confused by the real posters. So one day, in a radical move toward absolute purity, he banned all of them.

To his delight, the readers didn't react. The membership did not drop. With feverish seal, he wrote post after post, week after week. The readers accepted all his thoughts without a single rebuttal. DC was in Seven Heaven..... until one day he clicked on members and saw everyone was on "No mail." He had created the perfect oneness community—he was the only real member.

....then one by one his members dropped off until only Willy was left. Thereby hangs a tale (tail)

The real mystery to me is why do words have meaning, why does meaning lead to knowledge, and knowledge to Wisdom, and Wisdom to Love.

I have a theory about evolution. The first man stood up to listen. To hear danger in the forest. To protect his mate and offspring in the cave. And so he continued to stand up.

Questioning Consciousness...

Consciousness stands accused of a nameless crime. And if put on the stand, if mercilessly interrogated it may crack, reveal, and confess its hideous heinous crime. Is that what you really want? This confession could trigger a revolution that will subvert and cause the collapse of the habitual and familiar, and leave you stranded on an unknown land.

Here are the questions, but remember, don't let the accused answer you in words. It must answer by divesting of verbal trappings and denuding its transparent flesh.

Is the accused aware of anything other than change, time, the contrast of opposites, or their commingling, copulations, and the subtle shadings of pleasure, pain, suffering and joy.

Without duality, multiplicity, and something to reflect, would the accused be said even to exist?

Why does the accused fear its absence? Could any unpleasantness exist without it? Could even fear exist without it?

Is not the accused the cause of all disquietude? Could there be the least trace of ill in its absence?

Has the accused any knowledge regarding its absence, or it would feel? And if not, why the fear of not feeling, when without feeling no evil can be?

"why the fear of not feeling, when without feeling no evil can be?"

Because without feeling also no good can be.

Re: #40

Dear Mieke,

Of course what you wrote is true. Everyone can strive to change himself/herself for better and hope that others will also change because of that. But with so many people in the world it's just a drop in the sea. No other way probably anyway, so let's just hope for the best.

I don't think I could disagree more. Scaling to a global level is the very thing that's taking the greatest toll on the earth's resources. You see it everywhere.

About ten years ago, I was hiking on the Isle of Skye. We came to a large cove. What should have been a pristine feature was littered with piles plastic debris that had traveled from the Americas with the prevaling currents, a choking sea of trash.

I think Dr. Chopra is right when he asserts that the nation-state is an outmoded way of organizing. But his proposal is to go even bigger...outsizing when downsizing is inevitable.

I believe that in the next hundred years, horse & buggy Amish, who are reproducing at an average of 9 children per family, God-loving and inextricably rooted to the land may be the only workable form of human development remaining.

I'm not advocating anything, by the way. It'll all work out in the wash.

I guess I can't stress enough that the mind has the same five senses that the nerves utilize to carry perceptions of the physical world to the brain.

Post #51: universal in the realm of consciousness - If I can see an hallucination fifteen feet in front of me, then surely my mind is out there, fifteen feet at least.
The backdrop on which the vision was projected is mind.

Deepak, i enjoy reading your posts.

But btw, what's the difference between CAT and MRI scans? Will Global MRI scan be better revealing than the CAT scan for the cancerous growth of the world. The doctor told my friend that her mother's cancer in the brain can bee seen better with MRI scan than with the CAT scan. Please explain.

God bless you from the heart of hearts.

Interesting post Dr. Chopra! I have been an avid reader of your blogs, haven't read any of your books other than your recent book on Buddha. Your insights on widely diverging topics and out of box thinking to find creative solutions to pressing problems of our world has always amazed me.

In the context of the Global Brain or Mind, I would like to share my personal experiences and thoughts on Synchronicity, telepathy, connected minds..

Recently I have experienced many events of amazing synchronicity as if two/many people have exactly same thought at the same time, as if two/more people intimately know exactly what other is going to think and do or as if by having a thought first one person causes other[s] to have exactly same thought and do exactly same thing without speaking anything verbally... or, as if the core thinking was being done by a medium to which everyone had a connection to, can sometime listen to.

Realization of it has some times been amazing and sometimes very frightening as it seem to greatly defy logic and also frightening because if I/we really to cause someone/something think/do something, it means, we need to be far more careful with what I/we think and wish. It means that our 'thinking' is not "free", anymore.

I still not at all want to believe it because I find no logical basic for it, yet, I can't deny being startled by it many times! I have seen/noticed in past too but, I have seen/experienced it far more frequently recently. I can't make a "theory" of it and can't claim to really understand it, but, I am surely many times amazed and shocked by it.

What is it?

I don't really know.

Are 'minds' connected somehow? Do 'minds' really talk without "really talking"?? Is 'telepathy' exists here and now, even though, we not at all
understand it yet,

[Just as we not at all understood 'electricity' and 'wireless' few hundred years back!]

even though, we don't really know how to use it???

Similarly is telekinesis possible? I have no experience of it yet. I would love to hear your further thoughts on the reality of bending spoons with mind, and possibly a demonstration, which I am sure will be of extraordinary interest to many faithful and zealous skeptics(only to be startled), even though Skeptisch and similar others may not be interested blinded by their myopic vision of reason and reluctance to accept the paradigm shifting world under their very own feet into a new age of wisdom of infinite possibilities.

Dr. Chopra:

Interestingly, Mohanbir Sawhney and Satish Nambisan have also come out with a book - The Global Brain (http://www.theglobalbrain.net/). They take a more technical approach to networks, while you take the spirit approach!

Its intriguing to see evolution of similar thought on two fronts but with the same aim - connectedness.

Cheers,
desh
drishtikone.com

Desh Kapoor writes:

"Its intriguing to see evolution of similar thought on two fronts but with the same aim - connectedness."

The concept of 'Global Brain' has been around for at least two decades and developed by many others before the current 'Global Brain' Youtube video which triggered Deepak's series of posts.

The term "Global Brain" was coined by Russel Peters in 1980's in his book "The Global Brain Awakens"

Peter Russell:

"Peter Russell M.A., D.C.S. (born May 7, 1946) is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and been a popular public speaker."

Book Description:

At this unprecedented moment in history, when escalating crises threaten all life on earth, internationally renowned physicist-futurist Peter Russell weaves together the physical and social sciences, modern technology and ancient mysticism to demonstrate that the possibility of global illumination is now as real-and as imminent-as the threat of mass annihilation.

In this updated edition of The Global Brain Awakens, Russell details an extraordinary new vision of humanity's potential as a fully conscious super organism in an awakening universe. Presenting evidence that the earth itself is a living being and every person upon it a cell in the planetary nervous system, Russell describes how breakthroughs in telecommunications and computer networks are rapidly linking the human species into an embryonic global brain.

At the same time, the human potential movement is growing faster than any other segment of society, and influencing every aspect of the culture-including business, politics and medicine. Russell shows how the convergence of these powerful trends is creating the required conditions for an evolutionary shift in consciousness from egocentrism to geo-centrism.

First published in 1983 as The Global Brain and translated into ten languages, Russell's seminal work won acclaim from forward thinkers all over the world. Regarded by many as years ahead of its time, its original predictions about the impact of computer networks and changing social values were quickly fulfilled.

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Wikipedia has an artcile on "Global Brain":

The Global Brain is a metaphor for the intelligent network formed by humans together with the knowledge and communication technologies that connect them.

The term was first coined in 1982 by Peter Russell in his book The Global Brain. The first peer-reviewed article on the subject was written by Mayer-Kress and Barczys in 1995.

More recently, Prof. Satish Nambisan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Prof. Mohan Sawhney (Northwestern University) have applied the term to the management field - in their book The Global Brain - to describe the vast creative potential that lies outside company boundaries.

Francis Heylighen, who contributed much to the development of the concept, distinguished (in (Heylighen 2005)) three main aspects of the global brain metaphor. These are the organicism, encyclopedism and emergentism aspects.

Sandeep:

"Are 'minds' connected somehow? Do 'minds' really talk without "really talking"?? Is 'telepathy' exists here and now, even though, we not at all
understand it yet,"
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If it's synchronicity, it is "just happening," ie there are not two minds communicating or connecting, one sending, the other receiving, cause and effect. It is nondual.