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28 Nov 2002 @ 15:38, by Craig Lang

This weekend, while spending a few days with my extended family, I realized something was do-able now, that only a few years before would have been impossible. I realized that it is possible for two friends anywhere in the world to keep in touch, via any internet connected PC, anywhere in the world.

In this case, while my wife and I are visiting family, I was able to check my e-mail on-line. I found that I had recieved an e-card from a friend of mine. This friend had until recently lived in Minneapolis. In the last few months, she had moved to New Zealand, and is getting married there. At first I had thought that the connection between us would be all but severed, as there was now a half a world between us. Still, my reply was an electronic wedding card to them, which included a well-wishes message from my wife and I.

In another case, last week, another friend of mine gave birth to her first child. While delivering, she suffered what in an earlier time, would have been a fatal complication. Without the best that health technology has to offer, she would have died for sure. But with medical technology - maligned as it is - she is alive, recovering, and grousing about being stuck in "this damn hospital bed".

What I realized once again, is that, as technology matures, it can be what it was intended to be - an extension of our own mind and body - a tool for the soul.

My day job is as an engineer, working on biomedical electronics. Many years ago, I worked in the defense (aka WAR) industry. As such, I have seen both the good that technology can do, and technology at some of its most diabolical. And like fire, the knife blade, etc., it can either make life more liveable, or it can destroy life.

When it makes life easier, we have time for things beyond survival - such as spirituality, charity and writing in newslogs. It allows us to converse with people half a world away, as if they were next door.

Yet when high technology becomes a tool for the dark side, we see many of the darker current trends in world events. We find ourselves lost in a sea of complexity. We find our privacy threatened, and our very security imperiled by those who would misuse it for ill-gotten gains. On some days, I would give anything to simply scrap my computer, my phone, my car (with its power steering, electronic ignition, etc...), and embrace a low tech, agrarian lifestyle somewhere.

But it is on days like today, while dialoging over NCN, and when learning more of my friend's close brush with mortality, that I am grateful for the gift from God that is technology. We can only pray that we are also granted the wisdom, compassion and discernment to use it wisely.

Namaste,
-Craig

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29 Nov 2002 @ 14:31 by sharie : Technology and Intuition
If it weren't for the wonders of ultra-sound technology, my doctors and I wouldn't have known my developing twins had a bleeding tumor (a chorio angioma) growing into the path of the umbilical cord. If it weren't for my Mother's Intuition, I wouldn't have insisted on a cesarean, which saved my twins from bleeding to death internally. If it weren't for bio-technology, my doctors and I wouldn't have know my daughters had a dangerously low platelet count (which is why they would have bled to death had they gone down the birth canal). If it wasn't for Women's Intuition, I wouldn't have turned my back on the doctors' prescriptions... and I'd still be suffering from it.

So yes, I agree with you. *Technology* saved the life of myself and my daughters. But if I'd trusted technology completely, all three of us would've all been dead. So I say *yes* to technology, but we need to put our trust in our inner guidance.  

1 Dec 2002 @ 01:32 by shawa : PC as tool for the soul...
Great idea. I think the same. It is in our power to make a paradise of this world, or flunk the test. Again. I know what side I´m on. ;-)  

1 Dec 2002 @ 17:24 by magical_melody : Craig!! You are a treasured friend!!
Yes, Craig that card was perfect!! Max and I thank YOU and Gwen for that groovy card! Definitely please keep in touch. What's a little distance geographically? Spirit and heart does bridge any distance, and the technology of this net brought incredible magic into being!! Even while here in Auckland now, I continue to create new opportunities and friends through the net. Magnetism draws all you desire! and Goddess works through mysterious ways to bring our blessings home to us! Much love to you bro!! Alana  

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