I’m thinking about all the gurus on Youtube these days…
Because last night I used Western technology (and language, for that matter) to give a presentation on Eastern concepts, an often overlooked but growing phenomenon. Ignite Boulder was an event organized by Andrew Hyde, the founder of Startup Weekend, and my presentation was about Lucid Dreaming as a Psychotechnology.
By a psychotechnology, I mean to say that the “altered-state” of lucid dreaming is functional in that it satisfies human needs. As a matter of fact, consciousness-modulation in service of self-actualization needs has been going on since before recorded history. What’s unique about our times is what’s unique about all these gurus on Youtube—the recognition, reflection, and transmission of consciousness-raising psychotech through the West’s “wisdom tradition” of science. Welcome to the new paradigm…where suddenly, altering your consciousness isn’t just beyond taboos, it’s functional.
