What if our entire experience of reality were based on an assumption that could be proven false? In Roadmap to Reality, Thomas J. Elpel tests the assumption that we are a sentient (self-aware) species, and finds evidence suggesting otherwise. Like automatons, we copy beliefs and behaviors from generation to generation without consciously evaluating why we do what we do. We absorb a definition of reality and act on it, without ever questioning the source of that definition. In short, we don't act; we react.
Roadmap to Reality is the quest to unravel the illusions to discover what reality really is. The journey follows the link between technology and thought, showing how hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrial, and informational societies define reality in predictable ways. In essence, production technology dictates how we perceive cause and effect, how we solve problems, and how we approach parenting and governing. Roadmap to Reality sequentially follows simple ideas and commonsense logic to reveal how consciousness and worldviews evolve in layers over time.
Roadmap to Reality enables the reader to step outside of ordinary reality to obtain a fresh perspective on culture, government, prosperity, sustainability, and meaning. The quest takes the reader to the ends of the universe with a casual writing style, peeling back the layers of consciousness to discover the reality beyond. Roadmap to Reality will change your perspective of history and world events, and it will change you, enabling you to let go of preconceived notions about the nature of reality to discover a more holistic, more satisfying life experience.
Worldviews
Technological advances restructure language and thought, changing individual and cultural perceptions of reality. These worlviews follow established patterns:
Preconscious Infants, animals, and humans prior to fifty thousand years ago. Subconscious life without self-awareness.
Magical Young children and hunter- gatherer cultures. Magical, symbolic interpretationofreality. First-person.
Mythical Children and agricultural states. Concrete thinking, role-playing, black-and-white views. Second-person.
Sequential Adolescents and adults in industrial states. Linear cause-and- effect, equal rights. Third-person.
Systems Informational cultures, integrated design, transnational net- working. Self perceived as object.
Holistic Ecological awareness and sustainability. Transnational mutualism. Self perceived as part of web of life.
Mystical Microbiology and genetics, Gaia-oriented, all species have the right to exist. Identify with planet and all life.
Observer Quantum physics and nanotechnology, global web conscious- ness. Self as creator. Transcend matter.
Nonlinear Relativity, quantum physics, time paradox. Nonlinear cause- and-effect. Transcend time.
Universal Similar to preconscious, perceive reality without judging it.One with everything in universe. No mind.
