Posted: 08/11/2060 – 16:00 GMT | Share | Wave of the future, or totalitarian techno terror? Whatever your opinion on the white-suited Californian cult, one thing’s for certain: the ‘Gestalt’ is here to stay. Since its inception a mere two years ago, the cult’s grown at an unprecedented, and some would say alarming, rate. Their website boasts more than a million linked-up members across the world and, just yesterday, they petitioned the United Nations in New York, demanding to be recognised as a sovereign nation – a nation without geographical or ethnic boundaries. Adherents to the faith use adapted soul-catcher technology to broadcast every thought and image in their heads to every other member of the cult. They can ‘hear’ what each other is thinking, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days per year; and they claim this makes them the ultimate democracy, with 100% participation in every decision. Human language is, they argue, too limited and imprecise a medium to truly and reliably communicate the complexities of our innermost nature; only by linking brains, they say, can we fully engage in meaningful discourse.
