The Future of Consciousness

By Clem Stein

Imagine theres no heaven
Its easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
-From Imagine, by John Lennon

By the year 2258, religions, or life reward systems (LRS), were totally discredited. All of the myths, miracles, and magic had been disproved. The worlds population, with a few exceptions, believed that it was nonsense to say In God we trust or God bless America in what was left of the United States. Even the immense power blocks of China and India, the leading world powers, had given up deities.

This is not a normal book foreword; it is a fast forward. We need to fast forward about three hundred years into the future and not look at the past, which of course would be a fast rewind. The signs leading to the assumptions made by this book, when it deals with the future, are everywhere to be seen today. However, the situation is that most people wont or cant see too far beyond the end of their nose. They incorrectly assume that everyone believes what they believe and not too often question the path they take, as most people desire the path of least resistance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456714321

Clem Stein

Clem Stein flunked out of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1959. He got the word that the University didn’t want him back while on the tennis court at Camp Strounghart where the University had gotten him a job as a tennis instructor. The fact that Clem was an Eagle Scout helped in getting the job but not with the University who said one year of him for them was enough. Now, knowing he would not be returning to the U of W he took the $2,000.00 he had saved while working various jobs while in high school, he got a on plane in Oshkosh and flew to LA where he had an aunt. She put him up for the weekend, drove him to Hollywood on Monday, and he enrolled at the Don Martian School of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences, and moved into a boarding house behind Gramins Chinese Theater. After the air fare he had just enough money to pay his tuition and cover room and board for one month. Next he found a job bagging groceries at Ralph Super Markets. That would pay the bills and had flexible hours so he could go to school from 6PM to 11PM and work the day shift at Ralph’s. He was setting a pattern for his life. Get something done, anything was better then nothing and don’t give a dam, just follow your passions as Clem really wanted to be on the radio and be noticed. With incredible luck (Luck, meaning where preparation meets opportunity) and not one moment of prior air time Clem was hired by an LA FM radio station to work from 6PM to Midnight. So, he switched his class schedule from nights to 11 AM to 3PM, quit bagging groceries and went on the air. Radio was his thing, he never once asked what they were going to pay him and then he transitioned into TV. The draft caught up with him in 1962 but with the most incredible tenacity he overcame the US Army and ended up as the Traffic Time DJ in Munich Germany on the American Forces Radio Network. Married a German Lady, had two great years in the Army and came back to the USA, settled in Oregon, got a College Degree at Southern Oregon University on the GI Bill, moved to San Francisco so his wife could get her PhD at UCB and became a Financial Television Program host and did 4 hours of LIVE TV Monday thru Friday. He was having fun. Then some unpleasant reality enters. A divorce from the Germany PhD, who kidnapped his 5 year old son, emptied the bank accounts, and went back to Germany. He had just quit the TV gig and was starting a financial career which required more school and starting from the bottom, if you can call a noted TV host starting on the bottom a beginning. Clem ended up getting all the required llicenses and started his own real estate companies, buying homes in Palm Springs and Tahoe, and living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. All of this goes into the trilogy of books he has written. From a kid’s book to let kids know that planning their life based on their passions, and a bit of respect for the advise from Mon & Dad, to a Money Manual which illustrates how someone else’s life’s lessons can be a learning device, to the fascinating science fiction look which looks back at today from 300 years in the future. It’s a trip. Take it with Clem Stein.

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The Future of

Consciousness

Clem Stein

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© 2011 Clem Stein. All rights reserved

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First published by AuthorHouse 9/1/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4567-1434-5 (sc)

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Contents

ForeWord

In the Beginning

Inevitability

A Stumbling Step

The Power of Electricity

I’d Like Two of Me, Please

Here’s Woofie!

I Ain’t Got No Body

Lifestyle Reward Systems

It’s For Your Own Good

Progress Is Our Most Important Product

Where Do Answers Come From?

Spam?

Are You Just a Computer?

Will This Make My Head Hurt?

This Makes My Head Hurt

A Crap Shoot

Men Are Not from Mars

Keep Me in the Loop

Remember Me?

From PBX to Neurotheology

Please Listen

A Big Mistake Was About to Happen

Postscript

ForeWord

By the year 2258, religions, or life reward systems (LRS), were totally discredited. All of the myths, miracles, and magic had been disproved. The world’s population, with a few exceptions, believed that it was nonsense to say In God we trust or God bless America in what was left of the United States. Even the immense power block of China and India, the leading world powers, had given up deities.

This is not a normal book foreword; it is a fast forward. We need to fast forward about three hundred years into the future and not look at the past, which of course would be a fast rewind. The signs leading to the assumptions made by this book, when it deals with the future, are everywhere to be seen today. However, the situation is that most people won’t or can’t see too far beyond the end of their nose. They incorrectly assume that everyone believes what they believe and not too often question the path they take, as most people like the path of least resistance.

It is very uncomfortable to really look at what you are doing. It is disturbing to question commonly held beliefs. If someone called you common, you would be insulted. Almost no one paddles upstream. Almost no one walks up the mountain so that he or she can ski down. People did, of course, walk up mountains carrying their skis and a lunch, before ski lifts were invented. With that invention went a way of life and a style of living. But what really went away, and was much more significant, was a way of thinking.

The international homogenization of the human race is credited with the race’s ultimate survival into the future. So insidious and easy is this acceptance that it is not noticed. The incredible lack of a widespread catastrophe or the disastrous predicted human reaction with the inevitable conclusion of the death of God, no life after death, and the realization of a cosmos overflowing with life forms, most of them far superior to earth’s, just didn’t happen. This realization was greeted with a big so what. Water did not stop flowing from the pipes in people’s shelters. Electricity still came out of the wall receptacles. The homogenized population did what it always did. It picked up the master entertainment controller, a device not unlike a present-day television remote control, and clicked its way somewhere else, while a few nuts, like the present-day’s Rush Limbaughs, made complete asses of themselves, believing they were here to save the world as they saw it.

Science had finally provided answers to the age-old questions that had given religions the power and ability to control the world and its people for so long and generate so much misery and at such a cost.

The only real problem, however, was still somewhat the same. Where was the comfort to come from when individuals, no matter how powerful and wealthy, gave up the ghost? By 2300, we are not talking about physical comfort or prolonging physical life. That had all been taken care of. The average life span of individuals in developed societies was somewhere between 200 and 250 years. A long life, body replacement parts, and an almost pain-free existence were taken for granted. Some very wealthy individuals, in hopes of some self-awareness and consciousness breakthrough, hung around for even longer at a risk of some pain and a bit of peer disgust.

While everyone now knew there was no God, no hell or heaven, and no life after death, they still had a very difficult time coming to grips with the central issues so dominated in innuendos by all religions in the past. The central issues