Here’s the opening of the Prologue to my book COSMOSITY:

Prologue

To set the scene and clarify some of the ideas raised in these pages, this prologue is written in the form of a Platonic dialogue. The philosopher, Nirvanean, is about to present a paper, Cosmosity, for discussion by his three colleagues. Updating the context from Plato’s day, we envisage our four sages making up a modern symposium in an internet chatroom.

Readers should cast aside all preconceived notions of chatroom encounters and imagine themselves in the presence of a wise and high-minded company :

SkyMind (Moderator)
ClearLight (Scientist)
Avalon (Mystic)
Nirvanean (Philosopher).

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Nirvanean I should point out that Nirvana is glimpsed by a faculty we all have running in the background of our consciousness. I call it Nirvanoception.
SkyMind So tell us, Nirvanean, what is Nirvanoception?
Nirvanean If perception is of the five senses, and conception is of the mind, Nirvanoception is the means by which we “know” Nirvana.
Avalon Then if you want to be mystical about it, it’s the means by which Nirvana knows itself.
ClearLight Good grief!
SkyMind A touch of Meister Eckhart, don’t you think?
ClearLight Remind me, SkyMind.
SkyMind The eye with which I see God is the eye with which God sees me.
Nirvanean Substitute “Nirvana” for “God” and I’d be happy with that.
SkyMind Broadening this out a bit: Why is Nirvana so essential for humans? Why does the world need living Buddhas — or Posthumans, as you say?
Avalon If we knew the answer to that …
Nirvanean All right, let me try to give some sort of answer. It’s provisional, of course, so don’t nail me down on it …
SkyMind We each have our cross to bear, Nirvanean.
ClearLight Can these questions be answered at all?
SkyMind Let’s hear what Nirvanean has to say.
Nirvanean Our consciousness exists at the levels of perception (senses), conception (mind), and Nirvanoception (Nirvana, my preferred word for God). Generally, we’re only aware of the first two. If Nirvana is the “sorrowless state” — the Garden of Eden — why did we evolve a body-mind form that clings so stubbornly to sense and sensibility? Could it be some colossal mistake? An evolutionary dead-end, perhaps? I don’t think so. Could it instead be an inner imperative driven by a force higher than ourselves? If so, is that force a demiurge, a god, or a mindless principle? I believe the whole seemingly baffling scenario of our existence is a natural process whereby Nirvana seeks awareness of itself.
ClearLight On a purely theoretical level, I may be able to go along with that.
Nirvanean To make sense of that rather apocalyptic statement we have to ask, how would an infinite awareness become conscious? Clearly it would need to “throw” out of itself organs of sense which are self-generating and capable of detecting changes and movements around them. In other words, individual “pods” of consciousness grounded in the unity of being (Nirvana), but which also have the potential to take control of their own activities (free-will). Such beings would need to develop self-consciousness and, in turn, create their own little worlds. Eventually, the more advanced among them would become aware of their origins and gradually rise above the small world of their fellows.

ClearLight Why does Eastern-type thinking always merge into science fiction?
Avalon Maybe they have a lot in common.
SkyMind These days I’d hardly call it, “Eastern-type thinking”.
Avalon Absolutely, Western legends are full of that type of thinking.
SkyMind You’re coming on to that too, aren’t you?
Nirvanean I am. I believe that ancient Western mysteries, like the Holy Grail and the Philosophers’ Stone, are metaphors for Nirvanic experience with its proof of life beyond death. But sticking to the present point: by being conscious of Nirvana while simultaneously anchored in the landscape of creatures, these Nirvaneans would be aware of the ground of being from an independent standpoint. That alone would render Nirvana conscious of itself. To paraphrase Eckhart, “The eye with which I see Nirvana, is the eye with which Nirvana sees me”. By this process, Consciousness is born from undifferentiated awareness. So, according to my thesis, the whole purpose of evolution and the universe is to develop independent consciousnesses which achieve Cosmosity by realizing Nirvana. The rebellious streak which caused us to leave the Garden of Eden is the very quality needed to make the unconscious Ground, conscious of itself. We are the eyes and ears of the Absolute.

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