Consciousness & Human Nature

Subject grouping in the Essays & Articles archive.

Essay and Articles

Rudolf Steiner and the Obsolescence of Materialism

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An introduction to Rudolf Steiner for readers formed by scientific materialism, arguing that analytic idealism — via Bernardo Kastrup — gives a coherent framework for taking Steiner seriously again. Covers his cosmology of recurring Earth incarnations, the subtle bodies, the organs of imagination, inspiration and intuition, and the opposing forces he named Lucifer and Ahriman, with the suggestion that artificial intelligence is the Ahrimanic incarnation he foresaw.

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Upcoming Adventures

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A February 2016 newsletter reporting on a six-hour Sydney workshop called Reconnecting, organized by Gary Gorrow of the Conscious Club, and previewing a London talk, the OuiShare Festival in Paris, and a Croatian lecture cruise run by Bridging Heaven Earth. Pinchbeck rejects the label of expert and notes that How Soon Is Now is due from Watkins Press.

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How Soon is Now : Initiation

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Two claims drive this excerpt from How Soon Is Now: that social and technological development extends biological evolution, and that ecological catastrophe is a collective rite of passage. Pinchbeck draws on Robert Wright’s Non-Zero, Teilhard de Chardin’s Noosphere, Lynn Margulis on microbial cooperation, and Rupert Sheldrake’s Science Delusion to argue humanity is becoming a planetary super-organism.

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Biocosm and Bufotenin

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Speculative notes linking Lanza’s biocentrism and Amit Goswami’s The Self-Aware Universe to Jean Gebser’s The Ever-Present Origin. Pinchbeck argues that consciousness builds ever more complex vehicles for experiencing itself, that 5-MeO-DMT from the Bufo toad gives direct access to the undifferentiated void, and that ecological crisis accompanies Gebser’s mutation into integral consciousness.

Magazine Columns

Transformer: Barbara Marx Hubbard, Dazed & Confused Magazine

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Dazed & Confused interview with futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Birth 2012 and Beyond and subject of Neale Donald Walsch’s The Mother of Invention. Hubbard draws on Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere, describes a coming species mutation and a shift from procreation to co-creation she calls supra-sex, and outlines Day One, her global activation set for December 22, 2012.

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