Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere

By Steven Vedro

Book Overview

Digital Dharma has something for everyone. It is for technology experts and yoga fanatics alike. Whether you're simply seeking the spiritual, already practicing a spiritual tradition, or a Body-Mind-Spirit reader with ambivalent feelings about your computer and cell phone, this book will guide you on the path toward a new consciousness. Similarly, novices of the digital world, media junkies, and technology utopians who understand at some level there is much yet to be learned from the Infosphere, will all find intriguing, useful material here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083560859X
• ISBN13: 9780835608596
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book, well written

This is a well done book connecting the digital/media age to the chakra system of Eastern philosophy and consciousness studies. The reader would b e advised to have some background in eastern philosophy or he or she may be a little lost and bored.

delightful and insightful

An engagingly written, highly perceptive and well-researched account of the social and psychological conditions surrounding the emergence of what I call "new new media". Highly recommended, for students and the general online public.

Other Connections

I should have totally edited this review after reading this book. I really enjoyed it's putting of the revelations of Marshall McLuhan and Teilhard de Chardin into the theosophical context of psychic centers and chackras. Though cell phones can sometimes be a nuisance, I can't help but thinking that they and their universal adoption, the multifaceted Internet and it's infinite applications, along with other electronic media, despite aspects of "pollution" are indeed liberating and signify, as well as helping to create evolutions in consciousness! ======== I am ordering this Quest book. However, I am listening to a current interview on New Dimensions Radio and have been to Steve's WebSite; so I have a good idea of the content of the book. I am interested in writing a book on spiritual and psychic development for individuals and society related to the Web and Internet and other current communication technologies, so I think this book would be quite relevant. Two book I have just read are probably quite related: Donald P. Dulchinos Neurosphere: The Convergence of Evolution, Group Mind, and the Internet Jacques Vallee (Hardcover - Jul 2003) The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-Line Revolution And somewhat in the past: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner (Paperback - Jan 21, 1998) What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff (Paperback - Feb 28, 2006) -

A Deeper Understanding for Reaching Out and Touching Someone!

As a teacher of middle schoolers, I am amazed when watching kids use their cell-phones and other assorted gizmos. Teenagers, more than most of us, have an insatiable need to connect with others--literally and virtually--it is a constant in their lives. Steven's book helped me put their behavior (as well as my own and others) into a much larger frame--one that connects the deepest human needs (and the ancient ways of meeting these) with today's technology. An acknowledgement, I am Steven's sister-in-law!