Dan Gooden

Terence McKenna and Reverse Engineering Consciousness
At the beginning of history, as our ancestors began transitioning from an archaic culture to one of agriculture and settlement, the development of ego-centric consciousness was paralleled by the emergence of concepts that are taken for granted in the modern world; individualism, property rights and commerce. Several thousand years later, the development of modern technologies and worldwide communication nets are challenging the core myth of separation embedded in our culture. This talk will explore how behaviours of sharing and communal ownership can, along with Terence McKenna's ideas on language and technology, help us reverse engineer our consciousness and reprogram it towards higher functioning collective consciousness and awareness.
Dan Gooden is a Sydney local exploring the power of technology and language to evolve culture and consciousness. He currently works with information technology and lives in Erskineville, Sydney. His current project is building a social network called sharedearth.net. At its most basic level its a web based social network to support humans in building trust, and sharing resources. At its heart is an intention to support us in rewriting our cultural stories to reflect our emerging experience of universal interconnection.