dprogram • Dan Mapes - Virtual Reality Check


Home > 1 > 2 > 3 Clearly the whole exponential growth of cyberculture is happening in this area and its going somewhere, one could call it a sub-cultural revolution. To me a lot of people who have passed through the psychedelic experience of the 60's and the Shamanic experience or whatever which opened their mind up to a new dimension, now have got their hands on technology and are starting to do something similar but in a different way. Dan Mapes That's building cyberspace, which is another level of consciousness. But if you take a look at Beethoven's symphonies, every time that Beethoven is near the end of a movement, in a symphony, he begins introducing new themes that he'll explore in the next movement. So while he's summing up, and tidying up and closing off this movement, he's introducing new chord structures, new melodic lines, which then he'll explore in the next movement. So likewise, human societies that are taking part in these large movements which we might call an age or an epoch, as that epoch is near its' end they begin introducing elements that they'll explore in the next epoch. So what do we see as we enter the last hundred years of this thousand year cycle? Well, we see explorations of atomic physics, we see explorations of space travel, we see exploration of genetic medicine, we see explorations of new kinds of psychedelic consciousness. We see new explorations of new kinds of virtual realities. We call them virtual 'realities', new realities. These are all baby, seed elements that are just being touched on and felt but which will flower, very fully in the next cycle. So it lets us see into the future, very clearly. What are the issues? Space travel. What are the issues? Weightless environments. What are the issues? Genetic. Complete play with the DNA, we can play with DNA as we can play a musical instrument, recreate ourselves in any form we might want to. Isn't there a danger we're becoming Gods? We *are* becoming Gods. This happens because we're actually creating a new level of consciousness. So the characters that are responsible for bringing this new consciousness to life realise their godliness - they were Gods all along, of course, because we are all from divine and we return to divine, well guess what that makes us? Divine! But when you actually are making a new reality like a virtual reality or creating a new universe, or whatever, its so obvious, even in the hypnotic state, that this is a godly act, that people get a sense of "Oh my goodness." By doing this we are becoming divine. Well the characters that we are bringing to life in the virtual worlds - the artificially intelligent life forms that we're bringing to life - they don't think of themselves as godly, they'll look to us as Gods the way we look to the beings that brought us to life. And this is the 'Great Chain of Being' and its a wonderful, beautiful tradition. We, as humans, are waking up on a large scale, for the first time in history. Individual humans have always been aware of this and we've always called them enlightened sages, or saints or things like this. But now as we end the age, a large number of people are coming to the insights that only great mystics and sages - only one in a hundred years might have had - now thousands of people are touching it and starting to wake up to it. Home > 1 > 2 > 3 email • mail order credits © dprogram 1996>2008
	Originally broadcast on UK television's Channel 4, dprogram is an award winning, mind expanding trip featuring rare and exclusive interviews with leading edge personalities from areas like cyber culture, consciousness research, parapsychology, music and art. Volume 1 includes: • Dan Mapes CEO of San Francisco's leading edge virtual reality design company SynergyLabs on the metaphysics of VR. • Jah Wobble Musician and founder member of Public Image Limited on Cockney mystics, creativity and the inspiration of William Blake. • Dr Sara Parker UC Berkeley scholar on the New Age 'colonisation' of Native American spirituality. • Bishop Joey Head of the First Church of the Last Laugh - the worlds fastest growing snack relgion! • Burning Man A unique four day experience exploring creativity and consciousness in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. • Willis Harman Former president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences on their 'conventional research into unconventional areas'. • Dr Edgar Mitchell Founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and Apollo 14 astronaut on parapsychology experiments in space. • Nick Pope of the British Ministry of Defence on why he had to change his mind about the UFO phenomenom. • Peter Russell Author, on the global brain, spirituality on the net and our part in the evolution of the planet. • Ann & Alexander Shulgin Pioneer researchers into psychedelics and the mind, on the politics of ecstacy. And more... Running time: 70 mins. £19.99 plus Post & Packing. Post & Packing rates: For the UK add £3.00 For Europe add £4.00 For the United States and the Rest of the World add £6.00 ORDER ONLINE Snail Mail Orders: Make a Cheque, Postal Order or International Money Order payable to Digital Media Labs and send to: Digital Media Labs 8 Manson House 16-17 Manson Place London SW7 5LT United Kingdom Customer Service Helpline: +44 (0) 20 7225 0861 Please Note dprogram is only available on VHS PAL. To play this tape in the US you must use a multi-region video machine capable of playing PAL format tapes. We are currently working to provide dprogram on DVD. If you would like to be notified when this becomes available enter your email address below.