TELEPATHY IN THE FUTURE
OCTOBER 18, 2010. For some reason, the notion that, down the road, people will be able to transmit pure thought to each other without speaking is considered a reasonable possibility.
So let’s explore this a little. Will this telepathic communication be carried on with silent words? Is that how it’ll work?
“I like you.”
“I like you, too.”
Or will Person A project “the energy of liking” and have it returned by Person B?
Let’s take the latter format. What is this “energy of liking?” Is it thought, feeling, energy?
All of the above?
Regardless, it’ll be language in some sense. A different kind of language.
Many people have no problem accepting this, but to suggest that we could have a written/spoken language in which symbols are open and change meaning swiftly seems impossible, or impossible to fathom.
I think I see why. It’s assumed that telepathy will be reductionist, whereas the sort of new language I’m suggesting is all about proliferation.
Telepathy will reduce the need for explanation. Simple and powerful bolts of energy will distill what we are (imprecisely) trying to say to each other.
As if this is a good thing, just the thing we are looking for, to obviate misunderstanding, confusion, conflict, and so on. It’s yet another Utopian dream.
I actually believe this kind of pure telepathy exists, but I also believe we are dealing with a prejudice against proliferation that is deeply rooted.
People want the simple solution to existence. They want it in any form they can find it. They want a god to intercede out of the sky. They want UFOs to bring us universal abundance on a silver tray. They want a beneficent and monolithic government that will take care of us from cradle to grave. They want planets to align so we can live the life we desire.
And because they want this, they’ll willingly sacrifice anything that looks like complexity, including their own minds.
When the subject of telepathic communication is brought up, they like it, because they see it as a kind of reduction down to “simple salvation.”
The whole world—the many worlds and universes—of art speaks of just the opposite. Proliferation. Imagination unleashed. THIS language(s) doesn’t need purified telepathy.
Religion, salvation, global government, New Age thinking—these and other allied notions all imply the final and complete and overarching solution to our problems. The only trouble is, when you strip the veneer away, the problem turns out to be freedom. Freedom is for imagination and creation. The road to greater life is through the endless proliferation of what freedom is for.
A truly open language is created through and by imagination, and it is understood by imagination.
This is where we could be heading, if enough people wake up from their amnesia/narcosis, from the reductionist obsession.
See, it IS possible that some very, very good and simple and big thing can happen to you—but the fixation on that and the accompanying sacrifice of endless proliferation of creative power, your creative power, is what gives us a tyranny of limits…
JON RAPPOPORT