Omega the Convergence of Alchemy, Religion, Mysticism and Science

In the end there will be no conflict, religious people contextualize science in the ‘now’ and that’s as bad as the scientists contextualizing mysticism in the past. Christianity contextualizes god in very crude terms appropriate to the terms and meaning of times long ago.

Any Christian study course is riddled with heavily manipulated by dogma, go to any one site you want, read a passage and after it will say “Jesus meant yadayada yada” and most of its nonsense, they say the bible is the true word of god but it laced with meanings given by man. Christianity is dead and Jesus will return , the third reformation is at hand (thank god LOL) I think Nietzsche wrote that God is dead. Nietzsche was not an atheist; he was of great religious spirit and power. What he meant was that the God who’s fixed and defined in terms appropriate for 2,000 years ago is no longer so today. God defined as a personality is dead, that’s mans God not Christ’s god.

I think part of the problem is that mysticism and theology is more advanced than science, with no scientific measure of mysticism the scientists have assumed the reverse but the leading scientific minds are proposing that in reality there cant be a difference and that mysticism foresees the future not some hard to find other dimension.

In the past science and humanity has made the mistake of trying to assemble the infinite from ‘now’ the finite, we assume when God made us in his image it meant Homo Sapien, the man of today, but man is the ‘mustard’ seed not trunk or branch or tree, we look for proof in worldly miracle when all the proof we need is in front of eyes, Our religions have become ego centric, of man not of god, competition between the faiths and man have subverted the truth of all messages, science is even more so but surely the psychics of both work from but one set of laws .

The future of science and religion are one and the same, there is no other answer. Alchemists of the Middle Ages described the construction of magical appliances for viewing future events, or speaking to friends distant or dead. Writings of Paracelsus describe a mirror of Electrum Magicum with telegenic properties, and crystal scrying was in its heyday.

Today, digital alchemists have at their command tools of a precision and power unimagined by their predecessors. Computer screens are magical mirrors, presenting alternate realities at varying degrees of abstraction on command (invocation). Aleister Crowley defined magick as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with our will," and to this end the computer is the universal level of Archimedes, but the computers we know are in the very infancy of development, they cant even walk yet, but they will.

The parallels between the culture of the alchemists and that of cyberpunk computer adepts are inescapable. Both employ knowledge of an occult arcanum unknown to the population at large, with secret symbols and words of power. The "secret symbols" comprise the languages of computers and mathematics, and the "words of power" instruct computer operating systems to complete Herculean tasks. Knowing the precise code name of a digital program permits it to be conjured into existence, transcending the labor of muscular or mechanical search or manufacture.

Since God #1 appears to be held hostage back there by the blood-thirsty Persians, the telegenic Polish Pope or his German apprentice, and the Moral Majority, there's only one logical alternative. You "steer" your own course. You start your own religion. The Temple is your body. Your mind writes the theology. And the Holy Spirit emanates from that infinitely mysterious intersection between your brain and your DNA. So you search and research your very own genetic memory banks, the Old Testaments of your DNA-RNA, including, if you like, past incarnations and Jungian archetypes. And funky pre-incarnations in any future you can imagine!

You write your very own Newest Testament, recalling that voluntary martyrdom is tacky and crucifixions, like nuclear war, can ruin everyones day.. You can do anything the great religions, empires and racial groups have done in the name of God Number 1. and you're certain to do it better because... well, look at their track records. There's no way your Personal State could produce the persecutions, massacres and bigotries of the Big Guys. Why? Because there's only one of you, and even with the help of your friends the amount of damage an individual can do is insignificant compared with the evil-potential of the collective My generation stopped Vietnam and then went on to export 24 Tons of chemicals to Saddam after he torched a few Kurds, we are still exporting $128B of arms a year to basically anyone that wants to buy them and still wonder why 9/11 popped up to bite us.

And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself. Indeed, you call it a will to procreate or a drive to an end, to something higher, farther, more manifold"
Thus Spake Zarathustra II 12

The transition from human to posthuman can be defined physically or memetically. Physically, we will have become posthuman only when we have made such fundamental and sweeping modifications to our inherited genetics, physiology, neurophysiology and neurochemistry, that we can no longer be usefully classified with Homo Sapiens. Memetically, we might expect posthumans to have a different motivational structure from humans, or at least the ability to make modifications if they choose. For example: transforming or controlling sexual orientation, intensity, and timing, or complete control over emotional responses through manipulation of neurochemistry.

Clearly we have already taken our first steps along the road to posthumanity. We have begun to directly alter our genetic structure to remedy nature's failures. We use Prozac, Piracetam, Hydergine, and Deprenyl to modify our psychology, enhance our concentration, and slow brain aging. Research into more specific and powerful neurochemical modifiers accelerates as we apply new tools from molecular biology, computer-assisted molecular design, and brain imaging.

The merging of human and machine is clear to those who survey the arena. Machines are becoming more organic, self-modifying, and intelligent. Driving these developments are fields such as artificial life, neural networks, fuzzy logic, intelligent agents, and machine intelligence. At the same time, we are beginning to incorporate our technology into our selves. We began with pacemakers, artificial joints, and contact lenses. Artificial retinas are under development, and signals have successfully been passed back and forth between a neuron in vitro and a field effect transistor. The researchers suggest the next step is to connect up an array of neurons and electronic components. Computers and their interfaces rapidly evolve to fit us: From mainframes and text-based interfaces to PCs and GUIs, PDAs, voice-recognition, and knowbots. How long before our computers are implanted in our brains, as seamlessly integrated into our cognition as an extra hemisphere? Maybe 10 years, maybe 50 or 60, but it's coming.

The dawn of the new millennium will see the ability to use engineered viruses to alter the genetic structure of any cell, even adult, differentiated cells. This will give us pervasive control over our physiology and morphology. Molecular nanotechnology, an emerging and increasingly funded technology, should eventually give us practically complete control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build anything, perfectly, atom-by-atom. We will be able to program the construction of physical objects (including our bodies) just as we now do with software. The abolition of aging and most involuntary death will be one result. We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

Some machine intelligence researchers, roboticists, and cognitive scientists foresee even more radical posthuman possibilities. We may be able to "upload" our selves (our psychology, memories, emotional responses, values, feelings) from our biological brains into synthetic brains. Running on new hardware, perhaps connectionist nanocomputers, our mental processes could run up to a million times faster, and should admit of far easier and more extensive modification than allowed by our natural brains.

"It's unnatural." "Life without death would be meaningless." "I don't want to live longer than my allotted time." Not only physical immortality, but also the acquisition of superhuman (or posthuman) intelligence and ability they view with fear and trembling. Many episodes of the humanist Star Trek series embody these attitudes: Transcending the merely human always brings disaster, starting with the 2nd episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Such tales smell as rotten to me as those of Icarus, Frankenstein, and the Tower of Babel: Humans should just accept their limits. Don't build wings! Don't build towers that penetrate the heavens! Don't try to conquer aging and death! Cure the sick, but don't strengthen the healthyI'm proud to proclaim that I am indeed artificially intelligent. The intelligence I am currently using is the result of tremendous amounts of mental training that I have undergone. Most of my intelligence is my own
creation, and a lot of it is from other people who have taught me and from studying other people's work. If something is artificial, that means it is an artifact, created by humans. It does not mean "less than real" or "inferior", as many interpret it. Everything consciously created is, by definition, "artificial". My intelligence is almost entirely my own creation and the creation of other humans whom I have learned from. The basic "hardware" was provided by evolution, but the brilliant intelligence was something created by myself and other humans, and thus is "artificial".The more we direct our growth, the more artificial and self-created we become. I am proud to be artificially intelligent, and I am working dilligently on becoming even more so

But why? What is the purpose of it all?

The God of the Bible is not only related to the future by his promises, but he is himself the saving future that constitutes the core of the promises: "I shall be who I shall be" (Exodus 3:14). He is the God of the coming kingdom. In hidden ways he is already now the Lord of the universe which is his creation, but it is only in the future of the completion of this universe, in the arrival of his kingdom that he will be fully revealed in his kingship over the universe and thus in his divinity. Therefore, the future of the kingdom of God formed the core of Jesus' message as well as the objective of his prayer: "Thy kingdom come"

What I am suggesting is that the essence of Christianity is not a kingdom of heaven after death, not angels we cant see but a journey which ends in his kingdom the Omega Point of Tipler, Tipler the physicist and mathematician postulates that at our current progress all things will become known, There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known." (`Matt. 10:26`) and that we are a the point where in the near distant future we will have god like knowledge and things never believed possible will become so, “Look at the nations and watch – and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told”.( Habakkuk 1:5) Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered nor will they come to mind.(Isaiah 65:17)

The old men who hold their secret teachings to their chest are simply what they appear, they will soon make themselves obsolete, god did not make knowledge for the few, or truth for the elite, he made it for everyone, those who seek to control it do so for their own benefit. Just like the church will never be able to hold Christs words to their meaning. Their delusions are simply that , the delusions of men.