Dr. James Hardt (Interview Archive)
Guernsey has only about 31,000 employed adults, which means it would actually be feasible to train every adult on the island, whether directly or through some second-hand effect. That possibility is what drew one of Biocybernaut's supporters to the work. He wants me to consider installing a system four times the size of what we use now in another country. The appeal for me is the chance to put this within reach of more people, to do some good for humanity on a larger scale.
Consider what we've seen in Canada, where much of our work has been with an aboriginal population. I've run long follow-ups on those trainees, and the gains don't fade quickly. Six months out, twelve months, sometimes eighteen months later, the benefits are still there. What surprised me more is that the benefits don't stay confined to the person who sat for the training. They turn up in that person's circle of friends, in family members, even among coworkers.
So here is what I've come to believe: high consciousness is contagious. The question we're chasing now is which factors make that contagion stronger, so we can send people back into their cities, their towns, their communities, their reservations, carrying the effect of the deep and intense work a few of them have done, and let it pass to the people around them. Take a simple example. If someone stops swearing and shoving others around and instead becomes kind, gentle, affectionate, that tends to rub off. The improved abilities travel the same way.
Statistically, the strongest result of Biocybernaut training shows up in relationships. Family ties, working relationships, friendships, even sexual relationships measurably improve afterward. That is a large part of why I keep at it. I want a better humanity to come out of the other end.
Looking a bit further ahead, or perhaps alongside all of this, I think part of my mission is to help wake up what Peter Russell called the global brain, in a book and a video by that name. His analogy stays with me. Take 5 to 10 billion atoms and wire them together the right way and you have enough complexity for a living cell. A hundred million atoms won't do it. A single billion won't do it either. You need that 5 to 10 billion. Move up one level of scale and the same math holds: connect 5 to 10 billion neurons into a network of sufficient complexity and a self-reflective consciousness emerges, one that knows itself as Jim, as Mark, as Sue, Alice, or David.