The Raft: Notes Towards Rules of Order for a Digital Age

Continuing the tradition established by Fritjof Capra in the Tao of Physics, The Raft mines current writings in neuroscience and string theory, combines this research with the notion that being human means being embodied energy, then tackles the most problematic concept in the Western World: the Ego. The Raft takes on established ideologies within one-God religious traditions, certain New Age beliefs, and current schools of psychotherapy to forge a wholly new union between psychology and spirituality, one which could serve as a foundation for self-realization in the 21st century. Vore’s straight-forward sense of spirituality as being the movement of energy in the present moment is broad enough to bring even to atheists an understanding and practical use of what he calls "metaphysical technology". With its detailed account of the workings of Intentionality and Choice, Vision, Intuition and the Will to Action, as well as its close look at the mechanisms behind love, attraction, sex and relationship, The Raft shows how "the word became flesh". Special attention has been paid mapping out the workings of "Intuition" so that even the most non-intuitive person might begin to observe it's presence. The Raft repeatedly asks the reader to rely on her or his native intelligence and to be willing to respectfully question the authorities and experts in every field of knowledge which impinges an self-understanding: from neuroscience, artificial intelligence, psychology to traditional theologies–even The Raft, itself. Finally, The Raft challenges us to examine the ways in which our programs of recovery and therapies further inscribe difficult behavior. Current approaches leave potential subscribers to those beliefs stuck in hard-bound identities ("alcoholic") or paired roles ("victim"/"perpetrator"),which Vore sees as a dead-ends. Vore offers a way of thinking about the self which moves these discussions into an altogether different context, the path of one’s Vision. One thus truly recovers, escaping even "the cult of victimhood".