Living life like a desktop, with no internet, is living life in bondage. All you know is what the information stored in your brain.
Living life like a laptop with a wireless nationwide internet air card is life in freedom. You can go anywhere, and know anything. This is called Cosmic Consciousness, or Enlightenment.
The standalone desktop may have a some maps stored on the hard drive. But the always-online laptop has access to google earth . Com with StreetView. You can find a vendor in any industry quickly, with a map, and aerial view. You have all contact information, including phone, email, and web sites.
This is life with access to the Total Knowledge of the apparatus known as Cosmic Computer.
Speed, Memory, or Storage Capacity are not as important as Access
You can have a powerful computer, with 4 Gigahertz processing speed, 4 GBs of RAM with a 400 Gigabyte hard drive, as a standalone desktop. But it is not as knowledgeable as an old IBM thinkpad with Internet Access.
A man can be a quick thinking person with quick calculating ability, with a great memory for details stored in his own brain. If he did not personally experience some knowledge he will not benefit from it. But he is not as happy in life as an uneducated person who is online every day. He thinks of what he wants, and the answers immediately come to him. He can benefit from the total experience of all life in the universe.
The best situation is to have highly developed nervous system, plus be online.
Can minds be designated as shareable?
If we all can access the same "source of thought" does that mean that we can know each others' thoughts? To some extent we do, regarding instinctual responses. When we are kids, we already know basic motor responses. Most people have a basic sense of what is right and wrong. We all appear to have our own accounts, without access rights to other minds. There are legends and reports of "mind readers" who claim to be able to do so. Twins with similar nervous systems often claim to know each others' thoughts, but hard scientific research is lacking in this area.
If this analogy holds true, from the great System Administrator's perspective, who is referred to as God in religious terminology, it may be possible to know what is going on in all minds, all at once, even if the user has not designated his mind as shareable. As in a timesharing system, all activity seems to be happening at once. Some workstations may be playing a game, some are working, some sleeping, while some others are undergoing routine maintenance.
It is no coincidence that computers operate this way. The same laws of nature which structure computer systems have structured human intelligence.
We are all connected to the same source. Christians call it God, Muslims call it Allah, Buddists call it Sunyata, Vedic pundits call it Brahma, Physicists call it the Unified Field &
Computer Scientists the System Administrator.
The ultimate WAN, or Widest Area Network is the Cosmic Computer. As we are all on the same System, we should respect each other as part of one cosmic mind, just as one part of the brain works in harmony with the others. One computer on a LAN naturally does not wish harm to another.
As we grow, learn, and act in accord with the natural laws, and prove ourselves responsible enough, the System Administrator grants us more access rights. We expand in our awareness, we gain more abilities. We become able to see and work with new areas and folders of life. Just as a new computer user on a LAN is only given certain rights by the System Administrator, through his login script, and may not be able to see that other users, computers, or folders exist. He may not have File Scan rights to even see them much less be able to work with them.
We may not even appreciate that there are other minds out there, or that they actually work in a similar fashion to our own. We may even think that ours is the "only one" that works this way. But this is because we don't yet have rights to those areas.
The System Administrator grants only specific rights, mostly to keep the new user from getting himself into trouble, or causing problems on the WAN. The System Aadministrator grants beginners specific rights, and limits his access to certain resources. If the user is responsible, and gains experience, more rights may be given.
Similarly, the human nervous system is organized so that people generally do not have more powers than they can handle.
Throughout history, there are examples of dictators who could influence other minds, but did not have a holistic understanding. Until recently, during the past 5-10 years, most people have not had a "model" to help explain and appreciate the way cosmic intelligence works.
Now, with computer networks in more and more offices we have a way to make such analogies and comparisons to help understand how our minds may be networked as well. The mantras and sutras during meditation are our passwords, naturally opening up our awareness to new folders.
Since the last Big Reboot, or "Big Bang" the Universe has been expanding, with an upgraded Operating System, with improved laws of nature which structure our collective consciousness. When a computer reboots, it goes through a process similar to the unfoldment of natural law signified by the first word of the Rig Veda, Agnim - the "boot strap" program for the universe.
The operating system is the deepest level of a computer's functioning, and the most powerful, closest to the level of the Unified Field.
It is not surprising that Microsoft has been so successful by providing the operating system for most personal computers. By learning to program at the level of the operating system one can effect major changes in the functioning of all other software. In the great Server rooms, more mental connections are being made, opening up more user rights and access for all.
The Webmaster of the ultimate web site - the universe creates and maintains the words and images appearing on the browser of everyone's consciousness. Each person has his own IP address and folder but may be known by various Universal Resource Locators.