Spirituality at the Speed of Light

An address given at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences on March 31st, 2011, at St. Catherine of Siena Church, New York, New York. Allen Flagg gives the 5-minute introduction, and the talk is followed by a Q&A session. Videography by Mariusz Han, SJ. with just a few glitches.

In recent times, we have been experiencing a renaissance of spirituality that is closely associated with the electronic media environment that we occupy. Human consciousness and our understanding of the cosmos evolve, not only through the accumulation of knowledge, but through breakthroughs in our ways in our ways of knowing and relating to our world , to others, and to ourselves. We can experience the spiritual as part of a holistic, ecological view of the world, one that emphasizes the fluid over the solid, energy over matter, change over permanence, relativity over absolutism, patterns over things, verbs over nouns, sound over sight, and time over space.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• media ecology
• general semantics
• spirituality
• Marshall McLuhan
• Alfred Korzybski

[Professoranton]

Great talk Lance.  Thanks.

[natmanprime]

lol "caco- phony" he pronounced it funny

good vid, about time i hear someone whos talking somewhere near my shit

now, how about those african kids with the distended bellies?  hmm? hmm?

[pawsoned]

It's such a pleasure to listen to this guy. Although the first 10 minutes resembled a sermon the rest of the lecture was very informative and interesting. The most original idea imo was that data=/=information; this is so counter intuitive but if stop to think about it, it probably makes sense and YouTube is the best example where the abundance of data doesn't produce any new worthwhile information. Lectures such as this though are a redeeming feature of all the YouTube claptrap. Thanks 4thevid