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New Dimensions Radio for June 02, 2008
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere," with Steven Vedro
Does the Internet and our newest digital technology reflect a deeper spiritual consciousness or create new ways of thinking and perceiving? Steven Vedro makes a compelling case for how the Infosphere does both and can teach us how to take the next step on our journey to wholeness. "It's my belief that everything is part of the dharma path . . . and like it or not, we are evolving into this connected global brain, this connected community, and with it at each point comes incredible moral challenges. And so the dharma path of seeing each opportunity as a lesson and how we handle ourselves . . . who we are as we are interacting with the media forms."
Steven Vedro 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." More recently, Vedro has advised numerous state and county government agencies, universities, and public broadcasting stations in planning and managing distance learning networks and new technology initiatives. He is the author of Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere (Quest Books 2007). To learn more about the work of Steven Vedro go to www.srvedro.com
Topics explored in this dialogue:
* How does the Infosphere change how we think and perceive
* What metaphors exist between today's technology and metaphysics
* How does the metaphor of the Vedic Chakras reflect the physics of communication technology
* How the digital world has changed our experience of time
* What is Radio Yoga, the yoga practice of each digital medium
* How digital computing can help us create solutions to practical problems such as the environment or social challenges
Since 1973, New Dimensions has been exploring the landscape of possibilities of a more just, sustainable and compassionate world by having deep dialogues with individuals who are actively making a creative contribution in the world.
New Dimensions has interviewed hundreds of the greatest minds on the planet such as the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, poet Maya Angelou and physicist David Bohm. It has featured Pulitzer prize winners E.O. Wilson from Harvard and poet/ecologist Gary Snyder.
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