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RVML Resource Center 2002-2007 Calendar Archives 30 October 2007, Tuesday |
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Lecture: Digital Dharma- A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness by Steven Vedro
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
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Lecture: Digital Dharma- A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere
By Steven Vedro
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Presentation Description:
There is an Infosphere, an electronic web produced by our multiple telecommunications technologies, pulsating all around us. These technologies, as many human inventions, can be viewed as a product of the creative collective mind and therefore encoded with core lessons of human evolution and transformation. Laptops, cell phones, PDAs, GPS locators, HDTV, and wireless Internet offer new ways of communicating with our inner selves and with others.
Techno-aficionado Steven Vedro says putting this newfound wisdom into spiritual practice as a collective society is our Digital Dharma, our path toward greater self-awareness and enlightenment. Practicing this path helps us recognize the impact of technology on our inner life and teaches us to overcome the challenges presented by modern media.
Vedro uses the seven chakras- the basic energy centers in the body that spiral upward along the spinal column used by many ancient yogic traditions to link our physical selves to the higher levels of consciousness and developmental stages of life - as a model for achieving Digital Dharma. Vedro further explains that practicing this new spiritual awareness, what he also terms "Yoga of Teleconsciousness," allows us to see both the universal light and shadow side of technology and then apply that knowledge to our communication with one another and to our own personal work of spiritual evolution and understanding.
Digital Dharma has something for everyone. It is for technology experts and yoga fanatics alike. Whether you are simply seeking the spiritual, already practice a spiritual tradition, or are a Body-Mind-Spirit reader with ambivalent feelings about your computer and cell phone, this presentation will guide you on the path toward a new consciousness. Similarly, media junkies, and technology "utopians" who understand at some level there is much yet to be learned from the Infosphere, will all find intriguing, useful material here. Vedro's model may be especially relevant to today's parents trying to understand the underlying meaning of their children's need to always be "plugged-in."
Presenter's Biography:
Steven R. Vedro, MA, AEH, is a writer, lecturer, and nationally recognized telecommunications consultant who has been at the interface of new telecommunications technology and public service for the last twenty years. In the 1980's he produced the nation's first television series on new consumer electronics for PBS, "The New Tech Times," which aired on over 200 TV stations. He also developed the nation's first statewide teletext service and directed the Telecommunications Division's Communications Development Lab.
More recently Vedro has advised numerous state and county government agencies, universities, and public broadcasting stations (PBS and CPB) in planning and managing distance learning networks and new technology initiatives. His technology articles have been published in Current Newspaper of Public Telecommunications and the Continuing Education Review.
Vedro's spiritual and personal transformation work includes 30 years of meditation practice. He is a graduate of the Hoffman Process and of the Inner Focus School of Soul Directed Advanced Energy Healing and leads an energy healing practice in Madison, WI. Vedro is a declared Elder in the Mankind Project and assists at New Warrior Training Adventure weekends. Articles based on this work have appeared in The Beacon (London), Edge News (Minneapolis), and Technos (Bloomington, IN).
He has presented this work at the Media Ecology Association (New York), the International Conference on Science and Consciousness (Albuquerque), and the Institute of Noetic Sciences' Media and Consciousness Conference (Santa Barbara, CA).
Websites: http://teleconsciousness.blogspot.com and http://srvedro.com
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