A new era of wisdom
The reunion of Science and Spirituality
As we attended Unicorn Summit last week, I noticed two things:
Our endless thirst for knowledge
Our belief that technology can solve our problems
When I attended Singularity University in 2010, I could not have imagined a more exciting place to be. Nestled on the NASA Ames Research Center next to Google’s headquarters in Paolo Alto, eighty of us from across the world and across disciplines from rocket scientist and AI researcher to serial entrepreneur and activist spent ten weeks learning about exponentially developing technologies and looking for ways to leverage them to solve humanity’s biggest problems (hunger, poverty, water, etc.).
Fifteen years later and a decade of questioning everything I used to believe, I’ve come to see the world and what is needed very differently — which is what led to the creation of Neoslife.
While technology has the potential to reduce our problems, it seems not really to have been very effective at doing so.
What dawned on my journey from technocrat to wisdom seeker is that technology is simply a tool and how we use it decides its impact.
Many if not all of our problems are not due to a lack of technology but a lack of consciousness.
Meaning: Global poverty and hunger are a result of our systems, incentives and power structures. Africa is rich is resources but poor because the West meaning Western economies and leadership wants its resources cheaply. Imperialism 2.0.
Longevity: We seek to live longer/forever because we lack the understanding that life is simple a blip in our existence between physical birth and death. Expanded states of consciousness helped me understand what spiritual texts have been telling humanity since the dawn of time.
The Third Way: A new era of wisdom
The world is in the process of waking up. Which means we’re starting to see through the lies and illusions, the stories we were told and we keep telling ourselves.
Waking up can be a difficult process but it’s desirable and ultimately inevitable.
As a result, we are in the process of discovering the Third Way. What do I mean? The brain and therefore life on earth are driven by duality: Hot and cold. Good and bad. Rich and poor. Science and spirituality. It’s one or the other.
What we’re in the process of learning is to comfortably hold two seemingly opposing principles without needing it to be one or the other. It’s the union of heart and mind, left and right brain, body and spirit, nature and technology, feminine and masculine that unleashes magnificence and cosmic harmony.
This is what sages have tried to convey for eons but their message was hijacked and distorted by institutions including the world’s religions: Christ consciousness is reclaiming our higher consciousness through the transcendence of separation and duality into the union of the seemingly opposing.
It’s impossible to describe something non-dual through a tool (language) that is born out of duality. We don’t have the vocabulary for it but we can understand by experiencing it. Neoslife’s mission is to create an environment, culture and community to empower just that — we call it:
‘A new way of being’
How do you explain the look, feel and taste of an Orange to someone that has never seen one? A bit like an Apple, sweeter, softer, … you can’t.
Karen and I are looking forward to talk (and write) less and invite you instead to experience what we have been working on since the inception of Neoslife.
This week we are hosting our first retreat group of 25 people at Herdade Batepé, the name of the Neoslife estate (Google maps).
Later this month, we will officially open the doors to Neoslife and you can come and stay with us and experience the magic of this piece (and peace) of land and what we are building on and with it.
If you are tempted to not just visit but bring your team, event, friends or guests with you, please get in touch with us here.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to a new, happier, healthier and more wholesome way of being.
Much love
Vincent & Karen
this is wonderful, Vincent.
I had an important realization on reading this. what the world really needs -- what it has always needed -- is kind, caring, fun and funny people. People who spread joy and who have enough self-awareness and openness to self-correct when they realize they are NOT spreading joy. Such people attract like-minded, and then we heal the world. It's actually not rocket-science...