Sapiens Rising: The View From 2100 Beyond the Babel-factor st A Manifesto For The Children Of The 21 Century Neil Freer The Author NEIL FREER is a researcher, generalist, lecturer and poet living in Santa Fe, NM. Neil holds a BA in English and did graduate work in Philosophy and Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has taught college courses in Philosophy and History of Religion, gives private and public seminars and lectures and has done over two hundred ninety radio and TV interviews. Neil is the [1] author of Breaking the Godspell , which explores the archaeological, astronomical and genetic proof for our being a genetically engineered species and presents the ramifications of this new paradigm of human nature that resolves the Creationist- Evolutionary conflict. In his second book, God-Games: What Do You [2] Do Forever? he explores the ways in which we will live when, individually and collectively, we attain the unassailable integrity afforded by the restoration of our true genetic history. He outlines the racial maturity of the new planetary civilization and describes the new human. Neil is also a practicing immortal, signed up for cryogenic suspension to cover his bet in the event that the biotechnologists haven’t given us immortality before he dies. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.neilfreer.com Copyright © 2008 by Neil Freer All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in literary articles or reviews. The Electric Dragon Press edition of Sapiens Rising: The View From 2100 is the first electronically published edition of this book. ELECTRIC DRAGON PRESS 28 Avenida Las Nubes Santa Fe, NM 87508-2116 Images: Ursula Freer, http://www.ursulafreer.com Typography, book composition: Miriam Freer, [email protected] Content 1 SAPIENS RISING : THE ILLUSION OF STANDSTILL AT THE LEADING EDGE By What Criteria Do We Judge Ourselves? How Primitive Are We? Sapiens Stymied Characterizing The Transition To Transmutation A Self-Indictment 2 SAPIENS CHALLENGED: AN INVITATION TO THE COSMIC DANCE