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Logos (lo´gos´, lòg´òs´) noun
1.Philosophy. a. In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos. b. Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves. c. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
2.Judaism. a. In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race. b. In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
3.Theology. In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. In this sense, also called Word.

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Logos

Logos, in ancient and medieval philosophy and theology, the divine reason that acts as the ordering principle of the universe. Sixth-century BC Greek philosopher Heraclitus asserted that the world is governed by the Logos, a divine force that produces order in the flux of nature. In Stoicism of the 4th century BC, the Logos is conceived as a rational divine power that directs the universe. Through the faculty of reason, all human beings share in the divine reason. According to 1st-century AD Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher Philo Judaeus, the Logos can be understood as the Divine Wisdom that is inherently part of the world.

...the noosphere...no longer served as a mere passive repository of human information (the "Seas of

Knowledge" which ancient Sumer believed in) but, due to the incredible surge of charge from our electronic signals and information-rich material therein, we have given it power to cross a vast threshold; we have, so to speak, resurrected what Philo and other ancients called Logos. Information has, then, become alive..."

   -Philip K. Dick - _Man, Android & Machine_ 

Phillip K. Dick, in one of his last novels, _Valis_, discusses the long hibernation of the Logos. A creature of pure information, it was buried in the ground at Nag Hammadi, along with the burying of the Chenoboskion Library circa 370 A.D. As static information, it existed there until 1947, when the texts were translated and read. As soon as people had the information in their minds, the symbiote came alive, for, like the mushroom consciousness, Dick imagined it to be a thing of pure information. The mushroom consciousness is the consciousness of the Other in hyperspace, which means in dream and in the psilocybin  trance, at the quantum  foundation of being, in the human future, and after death. All of these places that were thought the be discrete and separate are seen to be part of a single continuum. History is the dash over ten to fifteen thousand years from nomadism to flying saucer, hopefully without ripping the envelope of the planet so badly that the birth is aborted and fails, and we remain brutish prisoners of matter.

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 - Terence McKenna - _Tryptamine Hallucinogens And Consciousness_

"A more perfect Logos would seem to be the result--a Logos able to regulate the activity of the ego as it exists in the sum total of individuals living at any time. It is like god; it is the human god.  It is something that will happen to human destiny sometime in the future, and because it will happen, it is happening. Nothing is unannounced.  The ontological mode of the higher dimensions into which humanity is being propelled is being anticipated by the singularity that we call the wholly Other or the alien. The alien is teaching something through its reinforcement schedule:  It is preparing us to confront the god facet of ourselves that our explorations into the nature of life and matter are about to reveal."

from:  _TRUE HALLUCINATIONS_ by  Terence McKenna
 

Well, when I talk about the Logos I always invoke Philo Judaeus, who introduced the concept of the Logos into the Hellenistic world but who was unsatisfied with it and spent a great deal of time talking about the more perfect Logos, the Logos that goes from being heard to being seen without ever crossing over a definable moment of transition. In a sense, my position is that all of history is a making of the Logos more and more concrete. In the same way that McLuhan saw print culture as replacing an earlier, eye-oriented manuscript culture, my hope is that cyberdelic culture is going to overcome the linear, uniform bias of print and carry us into a realm of the visible Logos. I really believe that not only human society is involved in what could be looked at as a conquest of dimensions but that biology itself is, as well. This is the great overarching theme of evolution---this is why we go from being slime mold to having binocular vision and bipedalism and then adding memory and language at the top end of animal organization. It’s because the thing which we are, whether you call it bios or logos incarnate or whatever, is striving to ascend to higher and higher dimensions.

 - Terence McKenna

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