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Why Spirit Tech is the Future

Exploring the intersection of spirituality and technology, and how consciousness-based technologies could shape the future of human experience.

When I used to day trade and swing trade stock options, I had hundreds of hours of "free time" to basically do nothing but wait for my trade to materialize, fail, or for an opportunity to enter.

During this time, I read hundreds of books on philosophy, spirituality, finance, and various other subjects spanning human knowledge. I became fascinated with philosophy and even considered creating a YouTube channel devoted to it.

However, over time, I realized that while fascinating, philosophy wasn't as practical or impactful as entrepreneurship.

One area of spirituality that particularly interested me was the nature of consciousness, enlightenment, transcendence, and reality itself. I've always pondered the strangeness of human experience:

This fascination has been with me since childhood.

Growing up in a Roman Catholic household, I attended weekly Sunday church with my family. I never liked it much and rarely paid attention to the priest, especially since the mass was in Polish, which made it less engaging for me as a first-generation American.

During these church visits and car rides, I often pondered the nature of reality, my experience, and the essence of existence.

As a boy, I'd have strange, unexplainable experiences where I'd briefly enter "spaces" that defy description.

These weren't just regular insights, but experiences that seemed to hold valuable answers, as if something in my brain had just "clicked."

Years later, I realized these experiences were similar to what Zen Buddhism calls "kensho" or "seeing one's true nature."

They were flashes of insight that came from pondering life's big questions.

Connecting these experiences to the present and future, I believe that the future of technology and human advancement lies in technologies that deal with consciousness, reality, and these insightful experiences.

Such technologies could:

The experiences economy, a concept I first encountered in Steven Kotler's work, is already a multi-billion dollar industry where people exchange value for altered experiences.

This includes but is not limited to:

We see this in various industries:

Most of these industries aim to change one's conscious experience to something fuller, more comprehensive, or more enriching than everyday life.

My hypothesis is that the future of human experiences will be closely tied to consciousness experiences that radically alter our perception, heal emotional wounds, or provide new insights to expand our perspective.

Philosophically, I believe consciousness expands with exposure to more data and information. Enlightenment, in this context, is simply data/information about the nature of reality that gives us a more complete understanding of ourselves.

I see consciousness as triadic:

From the Unknown, Being manifests and becomes something that is Known.

Spirit tech would expose us to what Becoming is already doing: knowing more of what it already knows until it fully understands.

In our current world, emerging technologies are making strides in this area:

The most radical ideas suggest that soon, we might be able to experience "God" through VR or similar devices. AI integration with human biology could play a massive role in this future.

This raises important questions:

While I'm unsure of the answers, I believe that the data from these experiences becomes integrated into one's understanding of life, consciousness, and its meaning.

We're storytelling machines, always connecting meaning to past or new data. This new range of data unlocked through consciousness technology will open new dimensions of life, enrich our experience, and reveal new aspects of existence.

Perhaps someday, we'll be able to answer what life is, what all this even is, and if there's something else beyond it all. And if this is coming, it's coming fast.

I'm currently working on projects to accumulate capital to bootstrap a project in this field. I believe this is the future of human evolution into something much higher and nobler, potentially answering big philosophical questions and expanding the possibilities for innovation as a species.

If you're interested in collaborating on a future like this, I extend an invitation to work together someday.

Other than that, namaste.