Tek-Gnostics
Intelligence Engineering Department

  ~ Consciousness Hacking ~
When Thinking is Outlawed, only Outlaws will Think!

 

In his pioneering 1967 dissertation: Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer, Dr. John C Lilly postulated that humans are essentially a biological computer,  born with specific bio-firmware programming such as eating, sleeping, and feeling pain… embedded in their genetic code. Our ability to take in new information and to develop ideas beyond these innate programs depends on our capacity for "meta-programming," or learning to learn.

By altering the brain's normal operations via the application of various “Consciousness Hacking” techniques, the range of human thought, the power and ability of the human mind can be increased beyond any previous expectations…

 

Consciousness (noun)
1 - the state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings.
2 - a person's awareness or perception of something, ie: the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world. 

-         Oxford Dictionaries 

Perhaps no aspect of mind is more familiar or more puzzling than consciousness and our conscious experience of self and world. The problem of consciousness is arguably the central issue in current theorizing about the mind. Despite the lack of any agreed upon theory of consciousness, there is a widespread, if less than universal, consensus that an adequate account of mind requires a clear understanding of it and its place in nature. We need to understand both what consciousness is and how it relates to other, non-conscious, aspects of reality. 

-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 Hacker (noun)
1 - a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
2 - an enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.

 - Oxford Dictionaries

Originally, a hacker was anybody who tinkered with any kind of system, mechanical or electrical, in order to better understand how it worked. Today hackers are persons who create or modify computer software, typically with the goal of using software in a manner not intended by the original computer programmer. 

- Wikipedia
 

 

 

 

Declaration of Neuro-Autonomy

"When in the course of human events  it becomes necessary for the individual to dissolve the tyrannical bands of coercive persuasion imposed by an antiquated dominator culture and to assume among the powers of universe the authority to which sentience entitles... a decent respect to the collective conscious of humankind requires that the individual declare their right to neuro-autonomy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all terrans are created equal... that they are endowed by universe with certain unalienable rights... that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

On behalf of the future, we declare the content of our mind and the capacity of our heart to be naturally independent of imposed media. We proceed with no greater authority than that with which liberty herself always issues. We recognize no higher allegiance than the natural communion between self and universe."

- inspired by the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Terence McKenna & John Perry Barlow
 

Item: Hacking Consciousness
Within the context of the system of perception known collectively as Tek-Gnostics, the exploration of consciousness continues to be a prime pursuit. We maintain that by better understanding our internal perceptive (reality) filter… or consciousness… we can better understand universe and our relationship to it. The ability for an individual to have a working knowledge of… and to possess the capability to modify or augment his or her own consciousness… is central to self-autonomy. Ultimately, we pursue mechanisms (yogas) that allow access to meta-consciousness.

Historically, access to this knowledge has been monopolized by a variety of hierarchal institutions that, for the most part, do not have the individual terran’s best interest at heart. Too often, political aspirations for power and control... of the many, by the few... have corrupted the original integrity of such systems of evolution. These systems, the most overt examples being churches and universities, have become institutions of control rather than learning. It has thus become necessary to access this information in unorthodox ways. We title these methods of acquisition… Consciousness Hacking.

Fringes of Perception
The human body is an adaptive organism of evolution and filtration. Although the function of any filter is to screen out undesirable or un-needed elements... this same process may result in a more refined or pure product, once it has passed through the filtration system.  Examples of substances filtered are: the air we breath, the food and water we consume... and the perceptions we take in via our many perceptive faculties.

In terms of receiving information from our environment, we are visually limited to a very thin segment of the electromagnetic spectrum. The smallest wavelength we can visually discern is violet at 380 nanometers, while the longest wavelength... red... measures 750 nanometers. Ultra-violet on the short side, and infra-red on the long, are normally outside our perceptive abilities. Our other perceptive organs receive similar limited signals.

Perception beyond the normal limits of our species-wide awareness filters challenge the normal limits of our reasoning framework. This framework has traditionally been referred to as consensual reality. This artifact is humanity's shared structure of consciousness  and coordination that allows for navigation, both physically and mentally, within our 3-dimentional framework of space-time. Although it has been considered a survival mechanism for the human species, exploration beyond the fringe of perception has been instrumental in accessing new information, thereby expanding and evolving consensual reality. This exploration and it's utilization has been termed creativity... thinking "outside the box."

The driving engine or mechanism of creativity is imagination. Imagination is... quite literally... a machine of manifestation. Put another way, imagination is the primal force and the vital reality creative power source of human existence. Before you can create it, you first must imagine it.

Think for Yourself
Creativity can be a "two-edged sword" in the sense that it may disrupt the current consensual reality grid as new information is gleaned and presented for inclusion within said grid. New information is typically presented by the intrepid individual, to the collective. If the information is validated by the collective, it is typically labeled as... change. Change can be perceived either negatively or positively... depending upon one's perspective. Perspective is defined as the state of one's ideas or the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful, interrelated and holistic way.

Regardless of how change is viewed... it is clear that change is a universal certainty.

One powerful filter of perspective has been termed critical thinking. This tool allows us to separate noise from information... filter out the superfluous from the essential. In this way, we can sift through the barrage of raw data to identify the relevant information within the data-stream... select the best working model of reality. Correct and repeated usage of the critical thinking filter produces a phenomena known as Intelligence Increase ( I² ).

Intelligence increase, applied collectively and with the utilization of our artifacts, both physical and conceptual, becomes Intelligence Amplification.

Item: Intelligence Amplification

Artifacts of Perception
Human Earthlings appear to have a particular talent as tool builders. The artifacts created by domesticated primates are as much a part of  contemporary (read: last 10,000 years) Earth history as humans are. Computer networks and human-computer interfaces, one of humanity's more recent artifacts, may be instrumental in what has been titled Intelligence Amplification (IA). IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to other humans is improved, we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. This concept is clearly evident in the development of social intelligence network sites, such as Wikipedia.

New developments in artificial intelligence (AI) will undoubtedly have applications in IA, and vice versa. Humanity needs to recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potentially sentient) as Artificial Intelligence. With that insight, we may see the internet, a mundane interface and networking tool, serve to advance us toward the singularity along the networked IA path. The marvelous opportunity presented by the world wide web is that it is participatory. As the cost comes down and access to a greater portion of humanity increases, it also becomes more proletariat.

What is so singular about singularity?
Viewing the worldwide Internet as a combination human/machine tool may manifest the Singularity before anything else. The power and influence of even the present-day Internet is vastly underestimated. The very anarchy of today’s worldwide net development is evidence of its potential. As connectivity and bandwidth and archive size and computer speed all increase, we are experiencing the transformation of our very biosphere into a vast data processor, with a million times greater speed and with millions of human intelligent agents (ourselves) in direct participation.

These developments appear to be evolutionary in nature. The internet is arguably one of humanity's most ingenious and ambitious creations to date. Being nothing less than a vast working model of global consciousness, each human with the means to connect to the web becomes, in a sense, a single, autonomous neuron in the mind of our biosphere, or as she has been more eloquently titled, Gaia. Given the incredible potential each individual earthling brings to this system, the creative possibilities for our global consciousness are seemingly infinite. As this global nerve-net becomes more complex and sophisticated... singularity approaches.

It is interesting to note that as this potential seems to be accelerating, so does it appear that one of Gaia’s major networking systems also seems to be abruptly accelerating into a less stable and dynamic state. We refer to this globally networked system as Climate. This bio-system has been stable for the last 10,000 years or so… coinciding with the rise of humanity. The fact that it has “re-activated” does not feel like a coincidence. Some massive reboot may be under way. Perhaps the timing is not a coincidence, but rather an intelligence test. As global unity (singularity) approaches, our ability to participate in the stabilization of our planet is a prerequisite. Fail the test and Gaia sluffs off what it perceives as a non-essential parasite.

Again, we currently possess the opportunity to effect emerging conditions, make things happen in ways that are more conducive to humanity. The key is in perception. We can consciously assume the role of being an essential component of our bio-system. We can take steps to facilitate intelligence amplification. Should we employ the intelligence and the humility to achieve the understanding that we are part of this amazing interdependent system… then perhaps we will rise to the challenges that face us. If we adopt a sustainable strategy that allows us to live within and as a part of singularity... a synergy of earth and artifact... perhaps then we shall attain a balanced and optimistic future. Should we achieve this, that will be the moment when we pass the test.

It is the intent of Tek-Gnostics Department of Intelligence Engineering to explore and facilitate the concept of consciousness hacking in symmetry with intelligence amplification.  In the pursuit of our explorations, we will employ the existent networking artifacts at our disposal to advance our knowledge (gnosis) and communicate that information... for it is in the utilization and interaction  of earth's global electronic medium that the Intelligence Engineer's unique opportunity for gnosis presents itself.

 

 

Intelligence Amplification Exercises

Our first technique is designed to focus one's intention on the here and now. Thinking about the past or the future is in essence time travel. Although this ability is what separates the domesticated primate from most other species on Spaceship Earth, it is not always the appropriate use of one's energies. We consider the following mind focusing exercise to act as a consciousness cleanser. It allows one to work more efficiently with one's existing faculties while taking in a little more of the available electromagnetic spectrum.

Mindfulness 100 level
The Tek-Gnostics mindfulness exercise begins with simply sitting down, relaxing and breathing deeply. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breathing, following the breath in and out. After a short time, move your attention to your body, one part at a time, noticing any sensations of cold... hot... tight... sore or anything you can identify. After a few minutes of attention on your body, start listening to the sounds of the room, without judging or criticizing or even thinking about them.

Just listen...

Slowly open your eyes and look around... as if seeing your world for the first time. Stop and rest your eyes on an object for half a minute. Examine it without saying things about it in your mind. Repeat this with other objects while maintaining an awareness of your body, and your breathing. This simple centering exercise allows you to see the world through 'new' eyes. Returning to this state of consciousness is conducive to accessing deeper, meditative states.

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This simple technique is designed to focus one's attention on our “collective consciousness” via utilization of the “eleven minutes after eleven” phenomena. Awareness of this event entails the increased observation of a flashing 11:11 on a digital clock or other such digital device. Recognizing the 11:11 signal to be a manifestation of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence)... elevates it beyond mere coincidence. Through the conscious intention of attributing significance to the appearance of 11:11 in one’s environment, we allow it to become a “cosmic trigger” mechanism.

Synchronicity 100 level
The Tek-Gnostics synchronicity exercise is opportunistic. It begins by noticing the eleven-eleven cosmic trigger as it presents itself in your environment. It may be that you look up and notice that your DVD or Blu-ray is flashing 11:11. It may be that you glance at your cell phone and its clock reads 11:11, etc. The point is that you recognize the emerging pattern of reoccurrence (pattern recognition) and make the mental connection that this is a synchronistic occurrence. Awareness of the 11:11 signal is a world-wide phenomenon that continues to gain momentum. As more people associate 11:11 with synchronicity, we approach a “critical mass” in collective consciousness.

Once you consciously make the association between 11:11 and synchronicity, your awareness of this phenomenon will increase dramatically. As you begin to see the flashing 11:11 signal more frequently, it will become a synchronistic reminder that there is a tangible connection between you and the phenomenal universe. This self-programmed affirmation goes beyond opening your awareness to the possibility of synchronicity. It facilitates the integration of synchronicity into your understanding of universe and subsequently your world view.

In this regard, the 11:11 signal can be viewed as a wink & a nod from universe. This cosmic trigger serves to remind us of the mystery and wonder...  that there is magic in the world around us... should we have but the eyes to see it.  

 

 

 

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