If you’ve ever consumed any media depicting the tech industry, you might have seen a lot of stereotypes going around people who work in this industry. One such stereotype is that a lot of people who work in technology are highly spiritual and borderline hippie kind of people. While the stereotype is greatly exaggerated, there is a lot of overlap between spiritualism and tech. While this might surprise you, there are many ways that both spiritualism and technology can complement each other. So, let’s look at how both of these concepts overlap and benefit one another.
Modernizing spirituality
When we talk about the modern takes on spirituality one of the best ways to look at it is by using a proper example. One such example is the spiritual concept behind human design. The human design is a spiritual system that integrates and melds multiple older and new spiritual ways to understand not only our personality but the way we interact with life when it comes to setting life goals or encountering situations that require you to make choices. The way the human design spiritual exercise benefits from technology is by digitizing a human design blueprint chart which allows you to fill out the information and follow up with your human design path online. This means that by using a technological tool you can fill out your body graph and understand what kind of type you fit in. With these tools then you can properly understand the decision-making strategies as well as your inner voice that gives you the motivations behind every decision.
Spirituality as a business tool
As you can see in the last paragraph when we talked about human design the reality is that these spiritual tools allow you to not only take control over your decisional skills but understand better what pushes you to make certain decisions. When we talk about human design this force that pushes you to make decisions is called the authority. By connecting to your energies and properly understanding what your authority pushes you to do and gives you the power to do you can make better decisions that serve you both spiritually and in a business sense when it comes to technology. This is why for example a lot of the technology industry is connected to spirituality because as we see a lot of development when it comes to the tech industry there are a lot of moral quantities to be weighed when it comes to moral and ethical decisions. This is why properly understanding your emotions through this spiritual process allows you to better away these decisions as not only a tech industry actor but also as a profoundly spiritual person.
Transhumanism, technology, and spirituality
As we see technology advancing more and more there is a lot of talk about how technology can be used to better the human spirit as well as the human body. While we’ve not seen any development dies word worrying about still a lot of people are starting to worry as we talk about the introduction of inter-cranial implants and subdermal implants that allow you to connect physically to machines. A lot of the worry when it comes to transhumanism in a technological sense is the loss of human identity to an evolutionary application of technology. This is why for example a lot of people are discussing the ethics of putting a computer inside of somebody’s brain and what it could potentially do to someone. Spirituality comes into play here especially when we talk about what it is to be human and understanding what truly powers the human mind and the human soul. While scientifically saws don’t necessarily exist the reality is that there is a spark in every person that allows them to be who they are. Spirituality serves as a counterbalance when it comes to discussing the pragmatic facts of using technologies as an evolutionary tool versus what it could do to humanity as a concept.
As you can see the importance of technology for spirituality might not be as big as the opposite, but the reality is that they both have a lot to offer to the other. As we see technology affect our lives more and more every day it might become even more important to have a very spiritual and human approach to technology to understand the deep effects of technology on humanity both as a group and as a concept at large. Only time will tell if our technology affects our minds and bodies in the future if we ever come around to using implants as an evolutionary tool instead of a medical application.
