My guess is that no one knows what the internet is and what its purpose is! Every ego trip imaginable can be found in this gigantic collective unconscious database we call the internet. I am writing this article so that every internet surfer will be more aware and awake about what the internet is and what its purpose is.

My hypothesis is that nothing is what it appears to be. Everything in this life has a hidden agenda. That hidden agenda is unknown by everyone. It is a mystery. But if you do not ask questions about the obvious, you will not crack the code of that hidden agenda. And so, read along with me. Stir up your curiosity! Arouse your imagination! Don’t take anything for granted. Assume means that the internet, like anything else, can make an "ass" out of "u" and "me." You can use anything, including the internet, to wake up, to become aware of what life is all about. If life is not about enhancing the ego, what is its hidden agenda? All of my writing addresses that key question. Addressing that question, however, means looking at the suffering and symptoms in your life. We surf the net to remedy our suffering and its symptoms, do we not?

Just notice why you go online. What do you want? What are you searching for? What do you think you need? What drives you? What excites you? What hidden agenda motivates you? Are you seeking security, money, love, sex, attention, fame, healing, excitement, education, titillation, or escape from something? What do you think drives you everyday? Why do you get up in the morning? Why do you go to work? Why do you not go to work? Why are you seeking a lover, security, a friend, support, attention? All of our behavior, even surfing the net, is motivated by unconscious desires and stresses. Our behavior is controlled by assumptions, expectations, and beliefs that we cannot even articulate

All that we seem to be aware of is our pleasures or frustrations whether our activities and goals are fulfilled or not fulfilled.

The internet, like the human mind in general, includes every vice and virtue humanly imaginable. Vice is mis-conceived virtue and it will abort. The energy of vice is not self-sustaining, and has to be constantly refueled with human imagination and energy. Of its own accord, it does not stand, and in fact it takes the human source down with it. If vice, however, is mis-construed divinity, that would explain why it is so recurrent and rampant, and why it must be upgraded, re-directed, converted, transmuted, and transformed, so that its true purpose may be discovered and redeemed. Even virtue, apart from awareness, becomes vice.

The internet is the boldest experiment ever devised, outside of creation itself.

How could the internet not include what we call "vice" and "virtue"? The internet has a life of its own. It is like that ball of string described by William Blake, which, if wound up will take you to heaven’s gate.

The infinite display of human imagination and divine potentiality is occuring on the internet daily. It is as though the combined imaginative power of mankind is now reaching to heaven’s gate. Along this information highway we are seeing the Second Coming of the Christ. That is, we are seeing on the internet the spiritual rebirth of humanity. Rumi said "there is a field beyond good and evil, I will meet you there." The spirit of Rumi, the spirit of creativity, is going to lead us beyond the good and evil uses of our imagination on the internet to the source of creativity itself.

The internet is the media that fires our desires:

• to stay home and become a millionaire in some online business
• to shop and sell
• to solve medical and practical problems
• to meet some unknown friend or lover
• to be able to learn what we missed in high school or college or in the workplace
• to be able to connect with people of similar interests
• to find solutions to our daily problems
• to be able to join forces with the great thinkers and teachers of all ages
• to be able to connect with God

My hypothesis is that everyone who goes on the internet is looking for God, God in the form of a question or need or desire. Just as in life in general, but 1000 times more so. The internet is pure fantasy, pure imagination, pure mythology. The internet contains the unnamable mystery, the indescribable, the bread of life, the water of life, that for which we hunger and thirst, that toward which our addictions and compulsions drive us relentlessly. All of the ultimates of life we expect to find on the internet, do we not?

The internet is a collective spiritual journey, with maps to the Treasure on every website all over this planetary landscape. Do you have the necessary equipment and training to read this map and find the hidden treasures there or will you fall in the ditch again? Do you have the awareness to de-code and understand what you reading and seeing on these websites? Every word and symbol includes a coded language, much like our dreams at night. If you don’t understand the archetypal language of your dreams, you may miss the hidden message in this grand internet phenomena.

The internet is a universal data bank which is doubling daily as we speak. It is estimated that there are 10 billion pages of website material. The internet is a visible representation of the collective unconscious of which Jung spoke so eloquently in the early part of this century. How rich he would feel if we could access this avenue of the collective unconscious for our use today!

Just a few years ago, such a media was not accessible. I believe that the internet is a collective expression of both human and divine imagination and creativity. I believe that the internet is a living symbol of human potentiality. The internet seems to be a hodgepodge of collective confusion, but properly understood it is going to lead us to our innermost core, to our deepest soul. The internet is not something you can put your finger on. It is alive and interactive and changing moment by moment. Books and even television are too slow a medium for the jetspeed travel that we experience on the internet. The internet is very intangible. It is basically an idea whose time has come. More intangible and incredible than television, books, magazines, newpapers, or even the spoken word.

The internet is like the nervous system or the meridian system of the body, and the brain is like the imagination which creates the flow of information and inspiration along these intricate pathways. The combined effect of this living flow is what I call the unconscious mind, the id, the unrefined mind of God.

As to the content of the internet:

Sex has 197,000,000 listings on Google

Family has 86,300,000 listings

Education has 75,600,000 listings

Love has 75,200,000 listings

Money has 64,000,000 listings

Security has 54,700,000 listings

War has 54,300,000 listings

God has 43,600,000 listings

Peace has 16.100,000 listings

Vacation has 15,500,000 listings

Abuse has 11,500,000 listings

Violence has 9,000,000 listings

Paradise has 6,500,000 listings

Body has 5,200,000 listings

Victim has 4,980,000 listings

I believe that the Cosmic Christ archetype is the hidden meaning of the internet because this archetype forms the innermost hidden core of every person. How can the Information Highway not be about the innermost core where imagination and creativity hide from our outward looking eyes? Therefore, when you go to the internet, you are searching for your most hidden and expansive self. Everything on the internet is about you, including your outward ego and your hidden inner core. The internet conceals or reveals our spirituality.

Contact:  drjoe@shentel.net

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