Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere [Paperback]

Steven Vedro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2007

Digital Dharma has something for everyone. It is for technology experts and yoga fanatics alike. Whether you’re simply seeking the spiritual, already practicing a spiritual tradition, or a Body-Mind-Spirit reader with ambivalent feelings about your computer and cell phone, this book will guide you on the path toward a new consciousness. Similarly, novices of the digital world, media junkies, and technology "utopians" who understand at some level there is much yet to be learned from the Infosphere, will all find intriguing, useful material here.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In his first book, Vedro, a telecommunications consultant, explores the intersection of Eastern philosophy and the digital age. I am not a guru or enlightened master, he writes. While this book is richly footnoted... it is not an intellectual treatise but rather a statement of personal wonderment at the connectedness of the inner and outer worlds. In succeeding chapters, Vedro follows the seven chakras of energy yoga, linking each to landmarks in the development of communications technology. For example, he connects the throat chakra to the Internet and in doing so advances interesting theories about both, including the idea that the Internet challenges us to tell the truth—and confront lies—compassionately. In each chapter he details the effects technology has had on human development, from both a personal and global perspective, all while providing fascinating insight into its technical workings. He accompanies his narrative with an impressive array of quotations from media gurus like Marshall McLuhan and spiritual teachers such as Ken Wilber. Vedro is optimistic about the fast-expanding world of digital technology, some may say simplistically so. Yet his optimism is based on a healthy understanding of technology's pitfalls, and his absorbing book sheds much light on two normally disparate subjects. (Oct.)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Quest Books; 1 edition (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 083560859X
• ISBN-13: 978-0835608596
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,461,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Deeper Understanding for Reaching Out and Touching Someone! December 9, 2007

By Carla Pfalzgraf-Vedro

Format:Paperback

As a teacher of middle schoolers, I am amazed when watching kids use their cell-phones and other assorted gizmos. Teenagers, more than most of us, have an insatiable need to connect with others--literally and virtually--it is a constant in their lives. Steven's book helped me put their behavior (as well as my own and others) into a much larger frame--one that connects the deepest human needs (and the ancient ways of meeting these) with today's technology.

An acknowledgement, I am Steven's sister-in-law!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, well written March 22, 2009

By Michael A. Williams

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This is a well done book connecting the digital/media age to the chakra system of Eastern philosophy and consciousness studies. The reader would b e advised to have some background in eastern philosophy or he or she may be a little lost and bored.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars delightful and insightful March 20, 2009

By Paul Levinson

Format:Paperback

An engagingly written, highly perceptive and well-researched account of the social and psychological conditions surrounding the emergence of what I call "new new media". Highly recommended, for students and the general online public.