The Club of Rome Reports Page

While not directly related to the subject of the last several posts my mind was turned to Futurism and that lead me to this page. Any of the reports on this page are worthwhile reading but "The Limits to Future Growth" (Dennis L. Meadows et al. Universe Books, New York, 1972) is a brick in the head.

The Club of Rome has been associated with global conspiracies, new world order and other fringe thinking. Most of us (I think, and speaking from my own perspective only.) Would associate it, at very least with dominant corporate republicanism, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your perspective. After reading some of the material on this site I am of the opinion that they aren't the enemy. I have for just over one year bee en working a book that has hovered in the back of my life for many years. The book is an exploration of the potential future that we may face and speaks to the need for human kind to release its latent potential (it any exists...(stupid, of course it does) to be released) as the only means to avoid a dystopian future.

"We" , it turns out are the only salvation that exists. While it doesn't specifically state anything one way or the other, the future is rather grim if things continue. The models that they built predict a collapse of resources and population before the year 2100. Yes, the book is outdated, but the wisdom is not. If we do not intentionally take control of the future we won't have one. In a sense, this does speak to the Group-mind theory in that only if we act as one can we avoid future mistakes. I believe that "We" are telling ourselves this and that only "We" can act. Not individuals acting collectively, but rather a collective acting individually. I am not proposing the enforcement of some synthetic, outside coercion. I am suggesting that we are faced with this possibility because of the existence of the group-mind as a deeper dynamic. One that we have failed to realize.

Funny, This ended up being a "Group-mind" related post. Ok, since I've wobbled back to this subject, consider something. What if UFO's, Angels, and the content of NDE's (Near death experiences) are in reality the Group-mind trying to get through to us (...I...(?)) in order to warn us of the potential disaster that looms? What would happen it each of us began to listen to the same inner voice? What if that inner voice was, in fact, the individual named US? When you where 7 years old you had within you the potential of a 31 y/o. while the exact nature of that 31 y/o would have been out of the reach of any knowledge, the nature of the inner person would not. This leads to the acceptance of, (in some minimal form) a "soul" or true inner self. Be this nothing more than an immutable set of values and characteristic's that define who you are, for the sake of arguement, it would lead to the existence of the simulation of you as a 31y/o existing within you. This, at very least accords with the tenets of Dr. Freud and the general idea of the ego and the Id (funny, id..."I.D."). with the added flavor of the modern understanding of the capacity of the human mind. Ok, so your inner 31y/o could then be 60 or 1000 as it would be a function of your future potential with experience. This doesn't require mystical beliefs or science fiction, only the capacity of the mind to generate simulations of reality based on current input and past patterns. You are a "Sum-over-histories" in the Feynmanian sense (quantum physic's, Dr. Richard Feynman, Feynman Online! in that you are the sum of the experiences the you have had, the processed experience's that you've been given (knowledge i.e; "don't eat toadstools") by others and your ability to use that information. So deep within you lies a simulation of you in the future. Its talking to you. If this is so, then its only a short step to believe that there could be, on an even deeper level a collective future self that processes information as a distributed computer. Slower and over greater time but with greater power. (Wow, what a concept.) We base so much on the external, the names we are given, how we earn a living, who we mate with that the internal begin's to seem ancillary. I think that you are the tip of an iceberg, I think that I am too. I think that if the water receded enough, we would see that we are separate and individual tips of the same iceberg. thanx again.