A Collision of Realities

The Science of Technology can be characterized by its rapid pace and relentless innovation. It has fundamentally changed the way humans perceive and interact with the world. Traditional cultures have long been grounded in old practices of former centuries or millennia, beliefs, and values, often finding themselves at odds with new paradigms that threaten their existence and retention in modern culture.

The intrusion of technoscience into society can be jarring, as it challenges established norms and disrupts the continuity of cultural identity which could undermine entire nations and the foundations of which they were built on.

For many traditional cultures, their worldview is ancient, based on outdated but useful communal values, irrational apparitions and spiritual belief from mythology they have never experienced, truly read or understood from the totality of all human mythologies throughout the ages. Technoscience on the other hand emphasis rationality, empirical evidence easily observed or experienced, and individualism of the person, presenting a contrast to traditional culture. This dichotomy creates a fertile ground for tension and conflict on already thin ice, as the intrinsic values of traditional societies are threatened by the external forces of modernization and technological advancement.

The Rise of New Mythologies

The impact of technoscience on traditional cultures often manifests first in religious uproar and rejection. Comparing technology to signs of the beast or devil, signs of the end of days and apocalypse. As technological advancements encroach upon sacred beliefs and practices, religious communities may respond with fervent opposition. This reactionary stance is a defense mechanism, aimed at preserving the integrity and sanctity of cultural and spiritual heritage.

In some cases, the clash between technoscience and traditional beliefs has given rise to new forms of mythology. Ufology, the study of unidentified flying objects and associated phenomena, serves as a prime example. With our world increasingly dominated by technology and our reliance upon it, the simple idea of extraterrestrial beings and advanced civilizations visiting us resonates with many, offering an alternative narrative that merges science fiction with ancient mythological themes and archetypes. These new mythologies reflect a collective attempt to make sense of the rapid changing environment brought on by technological progress, providing a framework through which people may process and interpret their experiences, real or imaginary. 

Rediscovering Human Potential

While the advent of technological science has undeniably caused significant debate and existential difficulty for many traditional cultures, it also gifts an opportunity to merge modern advancements with a renewal of what many consider to be untapped human abilities.

This will challenge us to recognize and cultivate inherent potential abilities that lay dormant within us, much like the scientifically controversial yet irrefutable abilities we see in animals. These phenomena, which strikingly manifest as the Ghosts of Nature, suggests that human beings, too, possess extraordinary capabilities that have been overshadowed by our hypertrophied brain, overloaded with ever evolving new information brought about by our reliance on technology and abandonment of our own trust in intuitive senses, due to its diffuse nature when measured with classical scientific methods and its evidentiary reliance.

The Ghosts of Nature

In the natural world, certain animal abilities defy easy scientific explanation yet are widely acknowledged. Birds, for example navigate across vast distances with uncanny precision, many have suggested in-built compasses using magnetic fields or other environmental cues to be the cause, yet after close to a century of research with magnetoreception, removal of body parts and experiments that we would compare to torture with human subjects it still remains unknown to our understanding. Dogs, likewise, can find their way home from great distances, guided by their senses and pure instinctual ability to find their bearings and navigate home in almost direct lines without having traversed the areas before.

These phenomena are not limited to animals but can also be observed in simpler organisms.

Plants, for instance, exhibit complex behaviors such as phototropism and chemical signaling, suggesting an inherent sensitivity to their environment that transcends simpler mechanical processes. Such examples highlight life’s adaptive and responsive capabilities, from the simplest organisms to more complex beings.

Cleve Backster's theory of Primary Perception famously showed how plants reacted to threats of violence and even death. By simply thinking about burning leafs, with real intention to complete the action, the plant attached to polygraph electrodes in 1966 would react with stress indicators.

Further experiments with humans and severed human tissue were explored with interesting measured effects, the results of which begs further modern and open-minded research today.

Humans often perceive animal instinct and natural abilities of other natural beings and organisms as paranormal. Their abilities illustrate the profound and subtle ways in which Nature can cooperates with us and how we can operate within it. All this is hinting at a deeper, unseen dimension that modern science is only beginning to explore due to past stigmas.

The Atrophy and Renewal of Senses

Human beings once shared these instinctual abilities to a greater extent. However, with the advent of organized religion, agriculture and the subsequent Industrial Revolution, our reliance on technological solutions has led to a great atrophy of these innate skills. Domestication and development of a hypertrophied technical intellect molded through standardized education systems based in antisupernaturalism, humans have shifted focus away from their intuitive and instinctual ways of learning, knowing and perceiving, instead prioritizing rational and empirical methods instead.

Despite this, the potential to reclaim these lost abilities remain and can be fostered. By cultivating lifestyle choices, trust in intuition and by searching a deeper connection with one owns natural senses, humans can begin to reawaken these dormant faculties. Practices such as meditation, mindfulness, and immersive engagement with the natural world with intent can help to re-establish the intuitive links that have been weakened by centuries of technological dependence.

Integrating with Intuitive Wisdom

The integration of technoscience with a renewal of human intuition offers a pathway to a more harmonious understanding of our place in the world and perhaps in the cosmos and present time. Rather than viewing technological advancements and natural instincts as opposing forces, we can see them as complementary aspects of human potential. Embracing the advancements in technoscience does not necessitate the abandonment of traditional wisdom but rather the extension of it. With the encouragement of a merger that leverages both our advanced intellectual capabilities to create technology and our inherent, intuitive senses to use it.

This approach requires a shift in how we perceive ourselves, our consciousness and our place in nature. By valuing The Ghosts of Nature, removing stigma and acknowledging the existence of phenomenas that transcend conventional scientific methods of measurement, we can open ourselves to new ways of thinking and of being. This fusion of technoscience and the intuitive self can lead to innovations that are not only technologically advanced but also deeply aligned with the underlying consciousness of humans, the needs of advancing civilisation and the mysterious forces of the natural world that guides us.