Migration : Maintaining Consciousness on the Journey from a Physical to a Digital Landscape

by Ian Jaydid

As our technology evolves, every day we spiral a little deeper into The Matrix – a full merger of mind and machine. Along the way we're finding our instant access to electronic information to be something we cannot live without. And, why wouldn't we? The media we create and consume is a direct extension of the human mind. In so many ways it is The Mind Externalized. But what does this mean for us? For too long we've remained blissfully unaware of how both our media and our brains funnel the world into a manageable, highly edited context - a context we increasingly mistake for the "real world". Before we completely spiral out of control, there is a discussion that needs to take place about who we are in the midst of the Media War raging on around us. This discussion is not meant to stoke fears of what lies ahead, but we can no longer afford to ignore what a major shift this presents for a species that has evolved for hundreds of thousands of years on the predator/prey landscape. MIGRATION is an enlightening journey though our deeper relationship with the mind by examining how and why we respond to media the way we do. With a lighthearted touch, author, artist and consciousness researcher Ian Jaydid navigates such topics as neurology, psychology, symbolism, lucid dreaming and meditation to illuminate a higher understanding of Who We Are in the face of all the strange stimuli we feed our nervous system. There is a path ahead where we don't have to lose our souls in the process; one that demands we that we finally understand who and what we are in relation to our media, as well as to our mind.

309 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2020

About the author

Ian has been writing, editing, cartooning and creating fine art for over 25 years. "Tripping the Field" is his first published novel which deals with lucid dreaming, quantum physics and shapeshifting. Through his creative arts studio, Iboga Moon Productions (Ianjaydid.com) he promotes and sells his writing and art. He is also the creator of Generation Jaded, a "single panel" style cartoon that often mixes dark humor and social commentary. His fine art (currently found on such sites as Etsy) as well as his writing are highly influenced by his own lucid dreaming and astral projection practices.

Reviews

[NBrown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a difficult book to read, maybe even more difficult than I expected (and I put off reading it for a bit, for that reason). But, I have read fairly deeply into consciousness from several angles, and I feel like this book hasn't ever been written before ... it breaks new ground. It's also extremely diligent in working out the ground it covers ... there are no facile soundbites ... territory is examined thoroughly, from multiple angles, until anyone sincerely interested will have to see their own assumptions in a different light.

Strangely, and maybe not so strangely to the author, I began to see in a new way how my brain is much more "normative" than I thought -- maybe even on the old-school end of normative -- and how much of a hindrance this can be on certain paths. The author's own (self-described) high-functioning autism, combined with extensive non-local experience, seems to have given him an opportunity to "see the water" we swim in that's lacking in other explorations of how our minds work.

It's a bit of a struggle to assimilate all the implications of how the brain works to define "justice," its struggle to separate the symbol from the real (if it does so at all), the recasting of endless puzzles pertaining to survival outcomes into powerful, complex and essentially arbitrary "Hero's Journeys," and so on and so on. I was pursued by a feeling that if I just read 10 more pages into the late late hours -- just ten more, or ten more -- it would all click and I would see the software of my own brain in clear relief for the first time. This sudden integration didn't happen, and I realized I would have to spend many more hours in self-observation using this material, and return to reread it again. Thus, the difficulty of being handed an operating manual for your system so late in life, I guess.

But, I did put the book down feeling that something of great importance had been written here, something that is not a pastiche of other writings and this is just the version that happened to make it into your hands ... this book is not like that, and if you feel that despite some years of very serious study there are some important things about how the mind works that have not been articulated yet, in such a way that the Western mind can access it, and that as a result you are still a prisoner of those processes ... this might well be something you need to read.