An electronic web now surrounds our planet. Our ideas travel instantaneously to all points of the globe on electromagnetic waves and pulses of light. Communications networks have advanced from wires to fiber optics, from interconnected radio and television grids to a world of billions of wirelessly communicating sensory devices. Emerging from what French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the shared “noosphere” of collective human thought, the Infosphere is now a field that engulfs our physical, mental, and etheric bodies.

As we are discovering, the electronic media amplify, distort and attenuate our senses, change our awareness, and “mediate” our experiences. But from an integral perspective, we know that the relationship between consciousness and media works in both directions: technology is not an external force that appear out of nowhere to affect our consciousness, it is also a product and reflection of our evolving consciousness. Evolutionary Collective Founder Patricia Albere and Steven Vedro, author of “Digital Dharma”, will discuss the developmental metaphors of light and shadow in our addiction to our smartphones and social networks, the impossibility of finding the truth over the internet, and the glimpses of “whole field awareness” that are inherent in our emerging “cloud consciousness.”