Gino Yu - January 9, 2014

Dr. Gino Yu is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development in the School of Design at PolyU where he develops meaningful game projects at M-Lab, a commercially oriented digital entertainment laboratory he co-founded that provides consulting, research, instruction and develops new commercial opportunities. He also founded the Asia Consciousness Festival and hosted the 2009 edition of the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference. His main area of research focuses on the application of media technologies to cultivate creativity and promote enlightened consciousness. Dr. Gino Yu received his BS and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and 1993 respectively and has over 60 conference and journal publications. Speaking tour for Gino Yu and Friends through Europe from Jan 17 - mid Feb., 2014: Jan 17 - Venice (H+ Farm - http://www.h-farmventures.com/) Jan 19-22 - Munich (http://dld-conference.com/) Jan 23-25 - Davos (http://www.weforum.org/) Jan 27-29 - Berlin (https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/) Jan 31 - Paris (http://www.hec.edu/) Feb 3 - Eindhoven (http://w3.id.tue.nl/en/) Feb 4-5 - Breda (http://www.nhtv.nl/) Tracks - Time Cues: 00:00 - 03:11 - Introduction. Chuck Hillig, Anamika, Science and Nonduality Conference mentioned 03:11 - 09:18 - Ariana Huffington, TED, entrepreneurship, innovation, self-discovery, the unknown. 09:18 - 11:50 - How do you communicate experience? 11:50 - 16:59 - Gino's Master's program on startups and innovation. Teaching a class on Recovering Creativity. Addressing the conditioned world view. The mind/body relationship to consciousness. Conducting this work in the academic world. Various other workers in the field mentioned. 16:59 - 21:41 - Gino Yu's spiritual story. World travel. Family. "What is the commanality of man?" Chi Gong. Cancer work. 21:41- 27:28 - How the media influence world view and physiology. Where is this conversation happening? Mapping out one's world view. Functioning from the conditional world and from the view of "It's good to be alive." 27:28 - 29:02 - Acting from the innate joy of being 29:02 - 31:56 - Definition of Enlightenment. How story is implicated in a neurophysiological perspective. Role of media. How do you use interactive media and biofeedback to facilitate personal transformation? 31:56 - 34:56 - Application of Moore's Law, that digital technology improves at exponential rates. Mikey Siegel. 34:56 - 38:37 - Bruce Damer, psychedelics, Burning Man. The conditioned mind as regulating physiological energy. Bipolar Disorder as example of energy fluctuation. Intergrating media and art to "kick up" your energy state. 38:37 - 44:08 - Creativity. Entrepreneurship as a spiritual path. Passion as part of conditioned world view is an opportunity for transformation. Working with the existing belief system. Looking at the energetics of that which is. Forces mediating action and how the reality responds. 44:08 - 46:25 - Integrated vs dissociated forms of nondual awareness. Are you the light bulb or the light? 46:25 - 49:46 - Functioning in "the Zone" Peak performance. The regulation of intention. "Can you push a lot of energy through the physiology independent of context? Living from Enlightenment. 49:46 - 52:54 - Where does conflict arise? Emotional attachments and objective measures of enlightenment. Jeffery Martin. 52:54 - 55:31 - Gurudatta Dattatrey interview discussed. Taiwan Conference on Consciousness 2014. 55:31 - 58:48 - Who's doing all this? Building community grounded in scientific, rational principles. 58:48 - 1:02:45 - Can your baby be your guru? Enlightened parenting. Can you surrender to another person? ... to that which is? 1:02:45 - 1:05:27 - "Kicking up the energy." Finding the context and the focusing on the energy and physiology, and somatic awareness. 1:05:27 - 1:06:54 - Using video games for transformation. Robotics and emotion. Measuring responses. 1:06:54 - 1:13:38 - Popular video games as the manipulation of hormonal activity triggering addictive response. Building community. Commercial opportunity in digital media for consciousness transformation. 1:13:38 - 1:17:04 - Nature of hope. Pink Floyd's lyrics as scriptural. Having no idea of what any of this is. 1:17:04 - 1:23:34 - Nature of the cutting edge of Gino's work. The higher the physiological energy generated, the more coincidences and sychronicities noted, especially when working with collaborators. The nature of luck. The four qualities of "I" and "me." 1:23:34 - 1:26:59 - Community building. Induced awakening. 1:26:59 - end - Sean Blackwell: Bipolar or Waking Up? The binding of the means that are in the realm of the mind with the processes of the physiology and the understanding of a person's world view, coupled with engineering for transformation, is what the study of consciousness bears on. TEDx, coming together at Burning Man.