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PART VIII

THE DIGITAL BOX – COGNITIVE 

LIBERTY AND FREEDOM TO

 EXPANSION OF THOUGHT

THIRTY-ONE

CONSCIOUS LIBERTY 

IT IS YOUR CHOICE

Feed or be fed! We’re all getting fed a story. I've decided nobody is curating my conscious thoughts on my behalf. In the future we will fight for the right to our conscious liberty. We’ve already lost it; however, many have not noticed yet. Did you know in Denver, a very valid argument for the legalization of psychedelics is to provide the users cognitive liberty? Yup, they are saying they want the option to choose conscious expansion. Yes, this is the reality we are now living in. This is a subject on the table; we are here now. 

cognitive liberty

The ability to freely explore, expand, and shape one's own thoughts and consciousness. It is the right to maintain control over one's mental processes, making independent choices about what to think, believe, and how to perceive the world. Cognitive liberty stands against the external imposition of ideas, beliefs, or narratives by digital platforms, media, or societal norms.

The content we take in, listen to, see, and absorb (yes, we energetically absorb from others simply by being in their presence both online and offline) is shaping our reality. We are being fed stories by the media and social platforms all while being pigeonholed for the rest of our lives. The future is online, and everything we click, type, even hover over is being tracked. It is all being added to a little folder that eventually earns us a label. Once the data has decided “who we are,” it shows us what it thinks we want to know and see. So where is the problem with this? Our entire existence is generated by the content we take in; we process stimuli and create our realities based on our thoughts and perceptions of translated data. 

We literally become what we know. 

Once boxed, how are we ever to get out of the box? What will intellectual or emotional growth and expansion look like? Expansion of consciousness? If we are constantly shown more of what it thinks we want to know, how are we to explore, become fascinated by chance, or stumble across something that forever changes the way we think or the direction of our lives? I've always said we are the luckiest generations alive – we won the lottery – for the sheer fact that we live in an era where all the knowledge in the world is free and only one click away if you choose to take advantage of this amazing gift. And that is changing.

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