"Cosmism" --The Emerging Religion 2.0

 

           

 

Cosmism, an emerging “religion 2.0” that is part of a radical futurist conception of the future development of humanity, can give us the positive optimism and “strenuous mood” to overcome our current problems and embark on our cosmic journey, according to contemporary cosmists, such as Giulio Prisco. a technology expert, futurist and and author of A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age, who believes that the “manifest destiny” of our species is colonizing the universe and developing spacetime engineering and scientific “future magic” much beyond our current understanding and imagination.

These ideas were first developed in the late 19th century by Russian Cosmism, the scientific philosophy of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Nikolai Fedorov, who considered science as a tool given to us by God to enable us to resurrect the dead and, as promised, enjoy immortal life.

Like-minded cosmists, says Prisco, expect that God-like beings will exist in the future, and they may be able to affect their past — our present — by means of spacetime engineering. Probably other civilizations out there perhaps millions to billions of years older than Earth's have already attained God-like powers says Prisco.

“It’s at least conceivable that remarkably advanced technology of the future may allow positive answers — that our descendants will have the god-like ability to recreate us in the future, giving us an unexpected prospect for immortality,” says David Wood in Super-technology and a possible renaissance of religion.

Future magic will permit achieving, by scientific means, most of the promises of religions — and many amazing things that no human religion ever dreamed of. Future God-like beings could resurrect the dead by “copying them to the future.” 

The Daily Galaxy via http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/ and http://www.kurzweilai.net

Image credit: ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)

Comments

[mark]

Wow! We would be like future gods and worship our past selves?

Why would we give up worshiping ourselves now (despite everyone else despising us) and settle on a pensive retro-narcissism?

Sounds depressing.

[Joey Salt]

Sounds like one heck of a plan to me dude. Wow.

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[Free Knowledge]

We are the god we've been waiting for.

[Jerry]

There is no reason to believe that my existence or anyone elses inthe future would be of any interest to future man to bring back from the dead. My ego would love to believe it, but I know better.

[Many An Anenome]

I, and infinite others like me, are typing this in infinite universes.

You, and infinite others like you, are reading this in infinite universes.

Now, where did that other sock go ...

[John]

Isn't this basically the plot for the last Doctor vs. The Master confrontation? The Master brings humanity's distant descendants back through time to help him control Earth, enslave everyone, and use Earth as his base for universal conquest.

[Mike B]

This idea assumes that Consicousness only came into being as we evolved. A bottom up approach. But if it turns out that Consioucness was here first, a top down approach, then we will have no need to resurrect our former selves. We will have been here from the start, and will return to the source of our being, and be one. We will not long for our primitive seperation.
Since a photon can be both a wave and a particle, which is dependent on the observer, then it is possible. Since an electron can change orbits faster than the speed of light, then it is possible. Since a cat can be both alive and dead unseen in a box, then it is possible. I know, you know, even if you (in your paradigm) wont accept it, or admit it.

[DwarfGalaxy]

"They" will just launch a simulation of this Universe with enough "resolution" and precision for us to appear again. And we will. As we have. Any other tweak is also possible, of course, eheheh...

[Mike B]

Oh... and a better emerging religion, based on science. "Quantum Activism". Ya.

[Il Passero1000]

Agree with Many an Anenome's post.

I believe our thoughts travel faster than light speed and we, as well as our ancestors, have already colonized the cosmos, or heaven, if you will.

[Relentless]

I was lost at the idea of "copying" someone into the future. I might be thinking of the wrong concept, but if given the right intact DNA of any individual (alive or dead for ages), sure it would be possible to clone the person, but that person would not retain the same memories, would grow up differently, and would essentially be an entirely different person. So, it's invalid with that regard. Plus, aren't memories and essentially all other attributes that make a person unique lost as the body decays shortly after death?

Good luck trying to undo that process!

Unless, you were to have your body frozen no more than a couple hours after your own death, and then have your body locked away for centuries until technology got to the point that it could undo what killed you in the first place and bring you back to life (since your body has remained intact!!!)

Besides that, the rest of the article was fine and dandy.

[Teresita Snowden]

robably other civilizations out there perhaps millions to billions of years older than Earth's have already attained God-like powers says Prisco.

[robert landbeck]

While 'Cosmism' provides a radical futurist conception, but like religion, without any of the means to those ends, something else is emerging! And looks more that able to deliver on the empty promises and rhetoric of existing religions and their claims.

For what science and religion, not to mention the rest of us, thought impossible has now happened. History has its first literal, testable and fully demonstrable proof for faith.

The first wholly new interpretation for two thousand years of the moral teachings of Christ is published on the web. Radically different from anything else we know of from history, this new teaching is predicated upon a precise, predefined and predictable experience and called 'the first Resurrection' in the sense that the Resurrection of Jesus was intended to demonstrate Gods' willingness to real Himself and intervene directly into the natural world for those obedient to His will, paving the way for access, by faith, to the power of divine transcendence and ultimate proof!

Thus 'faith' becomes an act of trust in action, to search and discover this direct individual intervention into the natural world by omnipotent power that confirms divine will, law, command and covenant, which at the same time, realigns our moral compass, "correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries." So like it or no, a new religious teaching, testable by faith, meeting all Enlightenment criteria of evidence based causation and definitive proof now exists. Nothing short of an intellectual, moral and religious revolution is getting under way. To test or not to test, that is the question? More info at http://www.energon.org.uk,
http://soulgineering.com/2011/05/22/the-final-freedoms/

[Cari Machado]

here perhaps millions to billions of years older than Earth's have already attained God-like powers says Prisco.

[Ray]

Cosmology has been my religion for at least 20 odd yrs, lets go for it !!!

[Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"]

You might as well know the Truth. You are all Players in the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) of Eternal Life, an Infinite Game without End. You are Immortal and, thus, will live forever in Absolute Existence. Your status, of course, will depend on how well you played the last role assigned to you.

The average age of MMORPG players, in Relative Existence, is around 26. Those outside the parameters, not contributing to this [meaningless/meaningful] statistic, are BLIND GUIDES, that is, NON ROLE-PLAYERS — Extras, if you will. Their Function is to distract you from the Path before you reach HOME within the Time Limits assigned to you.

There is no Past or Future, only the Eternal Now. You are each a Holographic Expression of the One, a fractionated bit of Consciousness, as it were. Everyone you see is yourself in a different form - Everything, when you get right down to it.

In Time (literally), you will don [sequentially/all at once] the flesh of the nearly Seven Billion Characters on this Stage of Life, including those who have been aborted, in the Grand Guignol Drama, NOW PLAYING IN THE GLOBE THEATER. Thus you will play out each of their individual Life Experiences from the perspective of their AWARENESS.

Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"

[Ivar Nielsen]

NOTHING NEW . . .

If reading the globally Myths of Creation, these all contains the concept of "Cosmism" - if interpreting these as they were intended: As real cosmic knowledge.

The only thing one shall focuse on, is that the Milky Way is connected to these very similar and common stories of "superior creator deities" told of in cultures all over the world.

See more here:
http://www.native-science.net
http://vixra.org/abs/1109.0065
http://vixra.org/abs/1109.0013

Ivar Nielsen

[Bob Greenwade]

Ivar is right in that this is nothing new. The idea of man becoming god has been around for centuries. Some think that it's a part of the Mark of the Beast: 6 is the number of man, 3 is the number of God, so 666 represents the concept of man setting himself up as God. I don't know that I go along with that analysis, but it's something to think about.

[tamurphy]

The whole business is first class hogwash. Almost enough to inspire unsubscription from this newsletter that purports to be scientific.

[smartypants]

This is hardly even interesting to me since I am already considered a GOD in here anyways! ;)

[Tosca Zraikat]

So, are we starting that manifest destiny stuff all over again, believing we have the right to lay claim to whatever we see, to harm it, strip it bare, destroy whatever stands in our way and spread our filth and ignorance across the cosmos? Clean up our act here on earth first. Evolve into something more responsible, considerate and less greedy. But no matter, if there is intelligent life out there (and of course there is), it will keep us in our place, keep us contained here on our little planet until we have demonstrated, by the way we treat each other and earth, that we are no longer a danger to life. We becoming gods? What egoistic claptrap! Yet the irony is that we already are. We always were. We are god stuff, part of the cosmic God mind...if only we really knew what that really means.

[Lee]

The thing that bothers me with this line of thinking is that this very same site through past articles has tried to discredit christians for believing in a divine creater of the universe. This article now suggests that through the development of science and technology alian beings could exsist that can manifest to us supernatural magic like powers. I prefere to keep a open mind when it comes to relegion and science but this article either unintentionally has a allegory theme or it is trying to open minds to satanism.

[Justin]

I believe in these super-creators and the stories they could tell of true nature of life would blow our minds. Real stories that are NOT made up. And would blow our minds to smitherines, proving nothing but pure knowledge.

[ur maa]

required reading: Asimov's 'the end of eternity'

[6world6wide6]

No one wants to blow the feeble mind of humans.