The spark

 It’s not hard to imagine the future. We all have a willing helper, the Amazon-Tesla Bot, who does pretty much all of our work. We don’t have to pay for him/her other than the daily battery charging event. It’s well-known that in return the bot measures our neural activity and knows with a 99.99 percent accuracy that we will go out for a movie tonight and will be sitting depressed in bed tomorrow. 

 

The way Amazon-Tesla make money is by sending us cinema ads today and pharmaceutical and therapy references tomorrow, even subliminally increasing the odds that we go down that track.

 

A brave new world indeed. If I live long enough to see it, I will have a bot like everyone else but will be sitting in my remote location in New Hampshire—the state with the motto “live free or die” on its license plate—and will try to shield myself from Amazon-Tesla’s reach as best as I can. 

 

What is the spark then in this brave new world? Actually, it’s the same as in today’s or yesterday’s world; it’s the ability to step out of all conditioning. There is no neurological or emotional activity than can interfere with the presence of the time-less observer. 

 

I remember reading a history of philosophy book by Karl Jaspers and remember him observing that all philosophizing was designed to yield the break-though, the breaking out of the linear thought process. That’s “the spark”. Our spiritual community lives for it. 

 

Who knows what the future shall bring. Obviously there will be unprecedented wealth for some—hopefully many—if the robotic-AI process evolves without blowing up humanity in the process. One thing is clear though, if you like to live happily in the brave new world you better find “the spark”.  

 

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