DC:
At the most mystical level, the Internet is God talking to himself through technology at the speed of light.

Not every transmission is obviously divine, but it's not content that I am referring to. It's a process that involves bonding, free expression, and walls coming down. Spirituality may have a lot more to do with a cell phone photo taken on the spot of a tsunami or a terrorist attack than with homilies in church.

That instantaneous tranWhatever God may ultimately be, her attributes are knowable only through human consciousness, and any expansion of consciousness carries us a step (or maybe only a tenth of an inch) closer to the mystery.

(I am a Software Pro by profession so can understand the mechanics of this better). Deepak cannot be blamed for saying technology is bridging the imagined barriers of humanity. When he says the Web is akin to God talking to himself, honestly, it cannot be better put. Man invented wheels that circles itself to traverse the earth, and now we have Internet doing the rounds for us - what better symbol of God talking to himself?

Believe it or not, we always invent (which takes the shape of technology) to talk to ourselves.

Strange thing to say Deepak. Is there anyone talking except God, in any other instance ? And since ''I am'' the only one talking, what is the speed of God's tongue ? The speed of
the light or that of a thought ?

Can one seriously think technology facilitates fast road to evolution ? Martin Heiddeger noted: '' Technology takes us further away from the experience of Being. ''

I think the ancient Vedic Seers would agree to some extent. Besides technology has been around for a while and it seems we've used it to corrode the fabric of society further and further.

I am surprised by your comments on the mobile-phone culture Deepak, knowing you are an endocrinologist by training ! You should be the one to bring attention to the dangers associated with the use of the mobile phones by our kids, especially during the time when the thyroid gland takes over and facilitates the growing of all bodily tissues. That's form the age of puberty to the man/womanhood !

Thyroid gland is a vehicle for the reception of the sonic vibrations throughout the whole body, and the mobile phones (at this stage) all suffer from the high level of harmful (toxic to the body) high-frquency vibrations which easily interfere with the complex membranes in the throat and the brain tissues. (Everyone who exposes themselves to long-duration calls know the feeling of the high-pitch inside the head.)

Reminds me the commercials in the 70-s; ''smoking makes one a real man..., take a Marlborough kido...'' that kind of nonsense.

Sorry I am causing troubles again. Still,

Internet is very useful form of communication, no more no less. Yet thinking browsing and reading will bring about a sudden flip of consciousness into a qualitatively new form, like in the hologram, is simply a wishful thinking.

Can I suggest to look into it from the perspective of the Gunas of Nature ? The internet is highly Rajasic and Tamasic form of communication it has very small amount of sattva even when we share the beautiful and the sacred via its space. Yes, some say ethernet relates to Vishudhi Chakra on the global level, yet how many of its users have the Shakti in that Wheel of Energy ?

One can spell the name of God a million times and read it even twice that, with a mystical background behind it with stars and galaxies, it will remain a written word nothing more. Yes, we find it inspirational and motivational, that's fine, but let us not fool our selves.

We can to and fro with it, we can have it as a cheap, safe and impersonal way of relating to each other yet we cannot make it into a tool of collective enlightenment.

Please, anyone who thinks she can outsmart Nature, think again. Or better still have a brake from it and rest your eyes, looking into the closed eyelids.

Equalize your breath and center it in the Heart area, that is the only real Net of all information. The utmost area of instant communication beyond mind & beyond imagination.

Anything that makes our senses revel in the objects of the senses is only moving us away from the state of Being.
Perhaps the german philosopher was right at least in that one.

Maharishi Jaya Jaya, Guru Deva Jaya Jaya