MANIFESTO FOR THE NOOSPHERE :

THE NEXT STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN

CONSCIOUSNESS
Part 1 Noosphere, the Conscious Earth
Biosphere-Noosphere Transition
For the late he died in March, 2011 - Mexican-American artistvisionary, Jose Arguelles (1) humanitys transformation of the Earth
accelerated 500 years ago with the advent of mechanisation,
empirical inquiry and scientific rationalism. The possibilities of
progress has since seemed infinite. As the external world changed
rapidly, so did the internal psychic environment, which turned
toward the separation of mans mind, soul and psyche from the
natural order. The more the human felt separate from nature, the
more easily he despoiled nature in search of fuel to drive his
machine and increase profit. In the wake of mechanisation came an
unprecedented biochemical change, industrial waste.
This sheath of mechanical artifice that has come to envelop the
biosphere is known as the techno-sphere. The machine from its
innermost recesses has evolved a brain and nervous system of its
own. Humanitys separation from the natural order, today for
Arguelles, has reached a limit. This is at the root of our mega crisis.
When we come to understand the scale of this crisis, we will realise
that there is nothing that can be done within the old system. The
only meaningful response to such a transition as is now occurring is
to shift our consciousness to meet it.
Beyond 2012
The ethno-sphere, the sum aggregate of human cultures, for
Arguelles, as a planetary phenomenon, is the psycho-social medium
flowering from the biosphere, providing the marketplace for the
techno-sphere, ultimately to be transformed into the noosphere. The
ethno-sphere only becomes a global phenomenon with the
processes of industrialisation and globalisation, when materialist
progress comes into contact with the vast array of human cultural
diversity.
As such, the final stage of hominisation has been completed. We
have spread all over the planet like a swarm of predators, taking
what we could wherever we found it, often leaving destruction and
desolation in its wake. We must now take responsibility, Arguelles
reckons, for the Earth. This concern must take precedence over all
other priorities.
Time is Money to Time is Art

Pre-history of the Noosphere

The whole of nature is governed and synchronized, for Arguelles, by
a natural timing frequency. The birds and the animals are up with
the sun and go to sleep when night falls and the sun s set. Early
human also followed the rhythms of nature, the cycles of the moon,
the seasons, the planets and the stars. Insofar as the biosphere as a
whole exists in accordance with these natural universal rhythms, it
has been participating in what her terms a fourth dimension,
unconsciously and instinctively. This is because the consciousness of
the planet remained static and Earth-based until some 400 years
ago.
While the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hindus attempted to create
calendars based on the 365 day solar cycle, generally creating
twelve months of thirty days with each cycle having an extra five
days, this measure was not based on natural rhythms but on a
geometry of space : the division of a circle into twelve parts, which
is also the basis of the clock. These measures are the root of what is
known as the 12:60 frequency of artificial (mechanistic) time. In
fact, as the basis of the clock, this modern division is the foundation
of the machine and the industrialized world of the techno-sphere.
It was some four hundred years ago, then, that the unconscious
planetary noosphere became unified and controlled by a particular
ideology and ruling class of people : European Christianity. This
mindset had been established with the Vaticans Doctrine of
Discovery of 1452, stating that if any Christian came across the land
of a non-Christian, the former had the right to dispossess the latter
of his land. There is, according to Arguelles, no system to the
Gregorian calendar. It is an irrational and arbitrary measure, which
does not synchronize.
The Gregorian calendar is also determined by a fixed position in
time the birth of Christ. The perception of time that we are taught
in our systems of education has a profound effect on our entire
existential and psych-social orientation to life. The prevailing view
that the present era began 2010 years ago (as of 2010), and that
before that moment lies the past spinning back in time billions of
years into some inconceivable big bang presupposes a Eurocentric
value system. This perception of time keeps the noosphere in the
unconscious, subjected to a value system that emphasizes
monetary power (time is money), individual self interest,
competitive struggle, war, nationalism, and the pursuit of novelty
and capricious whims (e.g. better iPhones).
Time is money easily emerged, then, as the propelling fuel of the
12 : 60 frequency. Before the scientific revolution was complete, the

first stock exchanges were established (Amsterdam, London, Paris),

commencing the industrialized transformation of the biosphere into
a commodity market to sustain consumerism and uphold the
prevailing order of the capitalist philosophy : profit, competition and
the winner takes all. While money is the fuel of the 12 : 60
frequency, the machine is literally the engine driving what is in the
end called globalisation the complex of techno/spheric materialism
as a global psycho-social order f reality in which monetary politics is
the triumphant force, and the bankers the high priests of it all.
From locomotives to steam ships to automobiles to airplanes to
rockets and then finally to the computer moving gigabytes of
information in the blink of an eye, the human chases the machine,
like a horse chasing the carrot, becoming infatuated with every
mechanical device as soon as it is invented and dangled before its
face. The accelerated multiplication and expansion of the machine
and human everywhere on the planet has been at the expense of
the biosphere. Communism dismantled adopts capitalism, and even
China, communist on paper, becomes the biggest capitalist engine
of all. Only Islamic so societies attempt to hold out against the
onslaught of monetary politics, but even nations like Turkey, Egypt,
Malaysia, and Indonesia become more and more capitalistic, while
the more conservative Muslim societies struggle to control the
Internet. All the whole the global temperature is rising and the seas
are burning. The stage is set, according to Arguelles, for a conscious
activation of the Noosphere through a species-wide act of selfreflection.
1952 : Year of Synchronicity
The world of artificial time is a time warp, a little bubble within the
larger consciousness of the planet, and indeed of the cosmos. The
rest of the universe has remained in the frequency of
synchronization only the human mind and its projection, the
techno-sphere, remained apart and separate from it, but even then
only to a limited degree. In 1952 Jung published his paper on
Synchronicity an a/causal principle, which states : Synchronicity
reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and
objective world. Safe to say then that this year of 1952, sixty years
before the end of linear time, marked the beginning of the return to
understanding that synchronicity is the normative value of natural
time flowing in conformity with the great cycles of the universe.
That is the time of the noosphere.
Unlike the time of the Gregorian 12 : 60 mindset, the Law of Time is
not a fixed point perspective; it is centred and cyclical. It is always
the eternal now, and the cycles it measures have no fixed
beginning. They only denote different stages and phases in the
grand drama of cosmic evolution. When we elevate the artistic

nature in humanity according to the intrinsic harmonics of universal

synchronisation, according to Arguelles, we will realize that the
function of human society and the purpose of our existence on this
Earth is to create a master work of art.
Part 11 : Noosphere : Evolutionary Ascent, Spiritual Descent
Ascension to the Supermind : Cosmo/physical Fields of
Intelligence
The Spiritual Nature of the Noosphere
Whereas Frances Teilhard de Chardin and Russias Vernadsky saw
the noosphere the planetary mind as an imminent possibility
resulting from inevitable tendencies in bio/geological evolution, in
Sri Aurobindos perception of the Overmind, the divine descent of
super-mental consciousness is as significant as the upward
aspiration of the human spirit, currently trapped in the lowest states
of material evolution.
Over-mind and Conscious Evolution
Enlightenment then is not the last stop of human potential, but
merely the waking up from ignorance to our true nature. However,
that is not only on an individual level. Now we are advancing to the
unified planetary mind and, for Arguelles, the condition of postenlightenment civilisation. The next step in this evolutionary journey
is the Noosphere. The noosphere is a world of harmony and
cooperation, while the present world of egoic ignorance is one of
disharmony and struggle.
Researchers in another part of the world explore from a scientific
perspective the same possibilities of the human transcending the
entropy of the present world crisis, that is through Russian Cosmism.
Super-mind and Cosmism
In Russia, following Vernadskys death in 1945, the noosphere
gained much greater currency in scientific academic circles, where it
spawned the scientific-philosophical school known as Cosmism,
which has had, according to Arguelles, and enormous influence in
political circles. Russian cosmism looks at issues of planetary and
universal evolution as a function of the emergence of living
intellectual latter on the planet. Cosmism begins where Vernadsky
leaves off, and most schools of thought base their fundamental
promises on Vernadskys notion that the biosphere is the region of
the earth for the transformation of cosmic energies.

A corollary cosmist premise is that the world is a living organism

and not a colossal mechanism (a clock), and that the universe is an
imperceptible living organism in which life is regarded as living
matter, and the human as living intellectual latter. Key in the
evolution of cosmism was the work of Kozyrev (1908-1983), and
astronomer and astrophysicist, who came to the conclusion that not
everything could be explained by exchanges of heat, light,
electromagnetic and gravitational fields. There are forces at work,
he inferred, faster than the speed of light, which he defined as timeenergy, vibrating at a different frequency that affects the evolution
of matter.
According to cosmism, at one point in Earths evolution, homo
sapiens emerged, representing the manifestation of intellectual
matter intellectual, through not yet fully conscious, like of Earth
thus creating a cosmo-physical field of intelligence developing in
resonance with the unconscious noosphere. Autotrophs are plant
life from plankton to rainforests that passively subsist on
photosynthesis and internal metabolic transformation of water and
minerals; heterotraphs are all animal types from insects to humans
that feed on the environment, either by eating animals or plants or
both. Through its accessing the universal faculty of technical
intelligence but lacking fully evolved moral intelligence, much less a
comprehension of its planetary role and place in the evolutionary
process, the human transformed everything from petroleum to
uranium atoms, heedlessly destroying or altering vast stretches of
the biosphere.
In light of this critical imbalance, and following the work of Kozyrev,
for more then forty years a team of researchers from the
Novosibirsk Centre for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (CCEM)
and the International Scientific Research Institute for Cosmic
Anthropoecology (ISRICA), studied the nature of living substance
and human intelligence, further developing the theory of cosmism
to explain the evolution of the plant and its living substance.
Cosmic anthropoecology, then, comprehensively considers problems
of axiology, the ontological properties of phenomena, and the social
prospects of mankinds survival at the beginning of the 21st century.
Ultimately, to correct our perilous situation and ensure the proper
genesis and continuity of the Noosphere, the future evolution of
humanity must tend towards a new kind of autrophy, or supreme
self-sustainability.
To restore the balance and survive on Earth, the human in the
Noosphere will realize and study the nature of autotrophy a
genuine and thoroughly economical and waste-free form of selfsustainability and orient his own evolution in that direction. Such is
the cosmist premise of the solution to the mega crisis and of the
evolution of intelligent matter in the life of the noosphere.

Synchronised Communities
We are currently witnessing, for Arguelles, the final stages of the
techno-sphere, through the virtual medium of the cybersphere, the
planetary human held together by Internet and mobile phones. This
is a pseudo-synchronisation. Through this technology and its
attendant social networks, each individual finds his or her individual
world compressed into an electronic instrument the size of the palm
of the hand. This is the technological analogy or precursor of the
noospheric concept of psychic compression and interiorization. The
new threshold of technological innovation also desensitizes and
abstracts the individual form the surrounding world. Each being
becomes surrounded in his/her own electronic bubble. The
connecting with the world is done by a single me in an egoic
bubble, a one-way universe that leads to five billion versions of You
an nobody else.
Rather than unification or synchronization, this phase of the
biosphere represents a maximum divergence of interests. The
mobile, exemplifying the cybersphere, is the tool of synchronization
everyone is synchronized by the same technology but it is
maximum divergence because it amplifies the individual ego.
Noosphere is the stage of consciousness beyond the ego. T o
prepare for it we must practice synchronization exercises that bring
together group consciousness, to counteract billions of egospheres.
Gordina and Yu, as such, President and Vice President of the Moscow
based Noosphere Spiritual Ecological World Assembly, growing out
of earlier legislative efforts presented in the Dumas, the Russian
parliament, over seven years by creative thinkers, lawyers and
cultural specialists. In 2005, Gordina published her book From
Biosphere to Noosphere, in which she calls for an International
Foundation for the Living Earth. The purpose of this foundation is to
promote development in the fields of :

noospheric-ecological education
alternative and renewable technologies
technologies for the purification of the air, water and soil
ecologically clean technologies in agriculture
reprocessing industrial waste into useful human life activity

altogether through a Noo-Constitution.

At Huehuecoyotl, outside Tepoztlan, in Mexico, is a free-spirited ecovillage founded some thirty years ago by a travelling artistic group,
the Illuminated Elephants, under the leadership of Alberto Ruz
Buenfils. The so called Rainbow Gatherings have now spread all
over the world.
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

We have to imagine, Arguelles maintains, that the structural basis of
the entire planetary social order is reorganized so that the highest
priority is given to artistic expression not just individual artistic
expression but collective expression as well. Art is not merely an
activity practiced during leisure time; on the contrary it is the very
essence of all human activity, including economic. This means that
the human is no longer a passive consumer of packaged
entertainment but an active participant in the whole co-creative
process of being alive in the universe.
Regimented schools or institutions, as such, need to be replaced by
individual an group learning paced by the needs of the community
in its expansion into the noosphere, including a heightened respect
for and integration of indigenous values and lifestyles. Above all, a
new quality of cooperation, compassion and sympathy with all that
lives will characterize the atmosphere of the noospheric community.
Economics itself, for Arguelles, will be regulated by the moderating
principle of empathy with creation. It is this power of collective
sympathy, an integration of mind and spirit, that will make the
communicative phenomenon of telepathy both normal and
worldwide.
The art of nature is the nature of art, we could say then, for in
nature, by divine design, all is a harmony of purpose, proportion and
function. This is because all of nature is in conformity with the
universal frequency of synchronization where the operative equation
is : energy factored by time = art : T (E) = Art.
In the human, however, the art of nature becomes conscious, such
that nature of art becomes a mindful enactment of the cosmic or
universal program of existence. This view recalls the original
purpose of art as practiced in the pre-literate and early religious
societies when art, ritual performance, and cosmological enactment
created one whole of reality or social experience. Each belief
system, in fact and as such establishes itself as a cultural-spiritual
whole. With the advent of 12 : 60 the different art wholes came
under attack, whereby for Arguelles, both pre-literate and literature
cultures disintegrated. Each one, instead, sought to acclaim fame
and fortune.
Appendix
Theory of the Noosphere
At the root of the primary definition of noosphere is a dual
perception : that life non Earth is a web of unity constituting a whole
system known as the biosphere ; and that the mind or self-reflective
consciousness of life the noosphere, Earths thinking layer,
constitutes a unity that is presently discontinuous but coextensive

with the whole system of life on earth the noosphere, earths

thinking layer - constitutes a unity that is presently discontinuous
but coextensive with the entire system of life on Earth, including its
inorganic support systems. A third critical premise arising from the
first two is that the noosphere defines the inevitable next stage of a
terrestial evolution, which will subsume and transform the
biosphere, while making the noosphere continuous with the
biosphere.
The French theologian Pierre de Chardin (1881-1955) foresaw the
complex emergence of the Noosphere. Thus he wrote of a network
of links .. more and more literally present, in the immensity of the
organism, and the image of a nervous system. This nervous system
would be the function of a geo-technology extending a closely
interdependent network of its enterprises over the whole earth.
Since his death in 1955, the advance of the biosphere into a
transitional stage, the technosphere, has created a global
information network, the Internet, as a geo-technology.
The Russian scientist Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a key
theoreticians of the biosphere, which he took as his point of
departure toward the noosphere. His thought, as such, has
influenced almost all Russian science, spawning cosmism, the study
of cosmic processes in terrestial affairs. The work of Swiss
psychotherapist Carl Jung (1875-1961) on synchronicity and
archetypal theory is a natural adjunct to a theory of the noosphere
that would assume a common collective unconscious a common
collective conscious field of the earth.
In contemporary Russia, the noosphere has advanced to the political
stage of establishing the notion of a Noospheric Congress. In Altai,
neighbouring Mongolia, an effort has been launched to develop
within the government a higher-consciousness steering group.
Finally, for Arguelles himself, the crux of his contribution is that the
Noosphere can only come into being through a conscious collective
effort on the part of n informed and enlightened humanity.

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