Gurdjieff and His TranshumAnts

Up until recently, I thought that Gurdjieff predicted transhumanism. After doing some simple research, I have to admit that I was probably wrong, but if you were wondering WTF I was talking about when I made a recent comment about Gurdjieff's logical deduction, here was my line or reasoning.

One element of Gurdjieff's space-opera cosmology is the ants. According to Gurdjieff, ants were an failed experiment by the Sun to create self-developing life forms. The ants chose instead to tinker "with their organs" and in doing so were reduced to what they are today -- cogs in a hive mind.

Enlightenment in the Age of Oversharing

I don't share the doom and gloom about the future that most people seem to have. I'm actually becoming more and more optimistic about the upcoming generation and I'm beginning to believe that they're going to change the world in ways that old fogeys like me can scarcely begin to imagine.

Identifying Carrier Waves of Hypnotic Experience

I know. WTF. "Identifying Carrier Waves of Hypnotic Experience". That's a hell of a title isn't it? I'll break it down, but first, I'm going to pose a question:

What do a roller coaster, guided meditation, any given musical composition, a speech, a movie, or a story all have in common? As you might suspect by the unoriginality of my approach that they are all carrier waves of hypnotic experience.

Don't look so surprised. I'm crazy.