Living the Spirituality of Reality: Experiencing Truth in the Universe

By Jake Lyron

Lyron extends his 'spirituality of reality' with notes on how this way of life is lived in practical terms. He offers a new philosophy which is simultaneously illuminating, inspiring and practical. A must-read for people wishing to push the limits of their experience of life in this miraculous universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jake Lyron
• Release date: Jan 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310494475

Jake Lyron

Jake is an activist for a sane world. His book "The Shrink from Planet Zob: Psychiatry for a Mad World" earned him a Mental Health Hero Award from leading mental health organisations for his contribution to the field. He publishes books which illuminate, creating clarity on reality expounding what Jake calls 'the spirituality of reality', a spirituality which makes sense from a scientific as well as a spiritual perspective. To this end he has also written about his new theory of the Holy Grail symbol in his book "The Holy Grail's Lost Meaning: Symbol of Receptiveness to Truth and Love". Google his author name to find all of the books he has published or find them on this, his Smashwords profile page.

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Living the Spirituality of Reality:

Experiencing Truth in the Universe

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Contents

Google Glass

Wanderlust

Reality is Everywhere

Genetic Boredom and Play

Lots of Problems

Bloke Jokes

Road Kill

Why Do I Not Like Folk Music?

Car Crash TV

Pilot Error

Bullies or Banter

Dog Food

Predicting the Future

Can’t Win, Can’t Lose

Don’t Know

You Never Can Tell

The Word Should

Scape-Goat

The Spider

Wants and Needs

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Google Glass

I read recently about the latest bit of tech from Google, what they call Glass. This is a headset computer which is voice activated and worn like a pair of glasses. It projects an image of the computer screen on the glass in front of your eye so you can simultaneously see where you are going and look at the information the Glass is giving you. So you might be able to view a city scene and ask the Glass what building that is, and if it finds it in the data banks it can tell you. Why is it that this gives me the creeps? I have learned that my intuition is fairly reliable, so I want to know why it is that this latest leap in technical advancement sends shivers down my spine.

When I told my son about Google Glass he said it was cool and he would consider having one. That made me shiver even more. But I have my techy gadget side too and sometimes I feel excited about the latest gizmos to come out. In the past few decades I remember lots of ‘wow’ moments as I heard about the latest gadget on the market. I remember seeing 3 ½ inch floppy disks back in the late 80’s and thinking ‘that’s cool’, then many years later seeing my first memory stick and thinking the same. Hearing about a computer with a Meg of memory was amazing, then a Gig was amazing, then a Terra and I recently heard a rumour that somebody owns a Petabyte computer somewhere. Each time I felt a wow of excitement and felt privileged to live in this era when technology is accelerating at an exponential rate.

But now I feel a bit different, especially when it comes to the Internet. The Matrix films have amplified this discomfort. I see the Internet morphing into some form of control which people are sleep walking towards. I look around and people are wired into it at every point. They cross the road oblivious to the traffic because they are checking their Facebook notifications on their Smartphone. Tablet PC’s are taken to pubs where they connect wirelessly on the pub’s Wi-Fi without any knowledge of who is checking in on what is being viewed. All businesses, hospitals and schools are wired up to the net, there is no escape and all these organisations are making themselves prone to hackers. Smartphones have satnav, relaying your location to who knows who. Televisions are digital and offer Internet connections. Webcams monitor your every move. From where I am sitting, this Internet lark seems out of control and it is a paradise for hackers and fraudsters. A new virtual crime wave is going on and even the best security software on the market is unable to stop it. If you think you are safe, you are wrong.

But the Google Glass just takes the biscuit. Now you can wear your computer in front of your eyes and never have to escape the Matrix, sorry Internet, at all. It won’t be long before implants are available to wire you directly into the Matrix, sorry Internet. But it strikes me that nobody is in control of this technology and nobody knows where it will lead. Nobody knows if it will be good for us in the long run and what worries me most is that it is severing the link between people and nature. How often do you take a walk in nature when you don’t have a mobile phone with you? When did you last actually connect with the reality of nature in an earthy, authentic way? When did you last touch the moist soil, or catch the falling leaf, or sleep in the open, or swim in the river, or smell the honeysuckle, or feel breathless on the mountain top, or watch the lacewings ride the breeze, or climb the tree, or taste the wild garlic or see the fossils in the limestone outcrop? Humanity is losing its way. Values are being distorted. Now people value technical objects. There is kudos from owning the latest iPhone and people rush out with urgency when the latest version is released to get it, as though if they didn’t own it they would surely die of lack-of-clever-phone-ness.

I feel sorry for children who have been brought up with this severance of the link to the reality of nature. The spirituality of reality means touching it, feeling it, smelling it, hearing it and tasting it and you don’t get any of those things from technology. Don’t misunderstand me, technology has its uses, but the craving to own and control it has driven a wedge between humans and nature. In any case, whether we are controlling it or the other way round is a moot point.

The reason I have a problem with technology is that a