Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

Is removing the ego and experiencing oneness the same as developing an SMC? No, because an SMC is still a sense of identification, a "we" and also the "me", the individual, will also remain in the SMC as I see it, in a form of transcend and include that Ken Wilber has talked about.

This means that, spiritual enlightenment, experiencing oneness, or rather, realizing oneness, is in one sense even bigger than an SMC. However, often in spiritual enlightenment as I have heard it described, there is still a lack of SMC development. One way of looking at it is that an SMC is an evolutionary development in manifestation while spiritual enlightenment is the realization of the unmanifested. Enlightenment and SMC are then two different concepts, a little bit like apples and oranges. The connection is that spiritual enlightenment is a useful, and maybe even required, foundation for developing an STO SMC.

Paraphrasing (from a Zen slogan I think it is): First there is a mountain (ego), then there is no mountain (enlightenment) and then there is a mountain again (SMC).