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Originally Posted by Marcus  In the end don't we run the risk of making this a discussion on semantics rather than the nature of spirituality / physicality? |
Agreed, though I think we can discuss both the semantics as well as the nature of spirituality/physicality.
Semantics are important for effective communication. If we discuss the pitfalls of using certain words, phrases and metaphors, we can get closer to a message which is clearer to a greater number of people.
I'm not so sure duality is the most useful term because the concept of duality itself is not easy to grasp. But I agree that it would work for this discussion for those who are already familiar with the term.
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Originally Posted by Marcus The Internet and Mass Consciousness are perceived as separate, in reality they are aspects of the same thing.
Perhaps I could have titled the article; "Technology Manifests Spiritual concepts into the Physical World". |
I'm not familiar with Jung's ideas about mass consciousness. What did he say about it? How do you define mass consciousness?
The Internet is a network of the products of individual consciousnesses. There is no feature of the Internet which equates to consciousness as a single entity (at least none I know of), except a consciousness comprised of many individual entities able to communicate with each other, but not share experiences directly. Conceptually unifiable, but naturally distinct. Just like us. But if that is what you mean by mass consciousness then I agree that the Internet and mass consciousness are comparable, but I don't agree that such a mass consciousness is a spiritual concept.