# Cosmos Café: Discussing “The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views" \[4/3\] **URL:** https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-discussing-the-evolution-of-consciousness-as-a-planetary-imperative-an-integration-of-integral-views-4-3/1831 **Category:** Cosmos Café **Tags:** event **Created:** [March 30, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-discussing-the-evolution-of-consciousness-as-a-planetary-imperative-an-integration-of-integral-views-4-3/1831 "2018-03-30T15:55:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![johnnydavis54](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/johnnydavis54/32/114_2.png) [@johnnydavis54](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/johnnydavis54) #### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-discussing-the-evolution-of-consciousness-as-a-planetary-imperative-an-integration-of-integral-views-4-3/1831/3 "2018-03-31T22:27:36Z")
A suggestion for the group. I have finished Appendix C and found it fairly easy to get through, and though there is plenty to discuss, I want more so I am going to go ahead and read the first two appendices as well. I think we could handle this quite easily and hope someone else has the time to do this, too, for I would love to hear what others think. I sense there are connections between some of our most recent conversations on alphabets, hands, and the experiments we did with alternate ways of knowing and our group map-making. I have been trying to figure out for most of my adult life what a symbol does and now feel hopeful we are starting to get a glimpse into how language happens. Synesthesia, as demonstrated in this brief clip, is probably the basis for all abstraction. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VjFCaGK7gX8/hqdefault.jpg "Language of Synesthesia") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjFCaGK7gX8) --- _[View the full topic](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-discussing-the-evolution-of-consciousness-as-a-planetary-imperative-an-integration-of-integral-views-4-3/1831)._