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TechGnosis

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by Erik Davis


  Jung, Carl, 1.1, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

  K

  Kabbalah, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1

  Kamiya, Joe

  Kapor, Mitch, 6.1, 6.2

  Kardec, Allan

  Kasparov, Garry

  Kauffman, Stuart

  Kay, Alan

  Keel, John

  Kelley, Edward

  Kelly, Kevin, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Kemmler, William

  Kerényi, Karl

  Kesey, Ken

  Ketamine

  Khan, Hazrat Inayat

  Khomeini, Ayatollah

  King, George

  Kircher, Athanasius

  Kirlian photography

  Kirn, Walter

  Kline, Nathan

  Klinzel, Werner

  Koans

  Kreisberg, Jennifer Cobb

  Kroker, Arthur

  Kurzweil, Ray

  L

  Lalonde, Peter and Paul

  LambdaMOO, 7.1, aft2.1

  Lamont, Stewart

  Langton, Chris, 10.1, 10.2

  Lanier, Jaron, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, aft2.1

  Lao Tzu

  Last days system, 10.1, 10.2

  Latour, Bruno, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 6.1, aft2.1

  Leary, Timothy, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, aft2.1

  Lebling, Dave

  Leibniz, Gottfried, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2

  Lévy, Pierre, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1

  Levy, Steven, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Libertarianism, 4.1, 4.2

  Life on the Screen (Turkle),

  Lightning, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  Lilly, John, 5.1, 5.2

  Liminal zones

  Lindbergh, Charles

  Lindee, M. Susan

  Llull, Ramon

  Loa

  Locke, John

  Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 7.1, aft1.1

  Lotus spreadsheet

  Lovecraft, H. P., 6.1, aft2.1, aft2.2

  Lovelace, Ada

  Lovelock, James

  Lovink, Geert, 9.1, 9.2

  LSD, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

  Luhrmann, T. M.

  Luther, Martin

  Lynch, David

  Lyon, Matthew

  M

  Macintosh computer, 7.1, 7.2

  Macy, Joanna, 5.1, 11.1

  Macy Conferences

  Madness and Civilization (Foucault),

  Magic, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2

  Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of

  Rationality (Tambiah),

  Magnetism

  Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents

  Mani, 3.1, 3.2

  Manichaeism, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1

  Man-machine metaphor, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 11.1

  Marcel, Jesse

  Marciniak, Barbara

  Marcion

  Marconi, Guglielmo, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Marduk

  Maritain, Jacques

  Mark of the Beast, The (Lalonde and Lalonde),

  Marx, Karl

  Marx, Leo

  Marxism, 4.1, 9.1

  Maslow, Abraham

  Masons. See Freemasonry

  Mathison, Volney

  Matrix, The (film), aft1.1, aft1.2

  Matrix Reloaded (film),

  Matrix Revolutions (film),

  Maxwell, James Clerk, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

  Maze of Death, A (Dick),

  McCaffrey, Anne

  McCarthy, Joe

  McCurdy-Hill, Yvonne

  McKenna, Terence, 5.1, aft1.1, aft2.1, aft2.2

  McLuhan, Marshall, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, aft1.1

  McPherson, Aimee Semple

  MDMA

  Meaning

  Media tribes

  Medici, Cosimo de, 1.1

  Meditation

  Mediums, 2.1, 2.2. See also Spiritualism

  Mega Brain Power (Hutchison),

  Memes, 9.1, 9.2, aft2.1

  Memory

  Men in Black

  Mercury, 1.1, 1.2

  Mesmer, Franz Anton, 2.1, 2.2

  Mesmerism, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1

  Metallurgy

  Metaphysical economy

  Metzner, Ralph

  Microscopes, 2.1, 10.1

  Mind

  as computer, 5.1, 5.2

  control, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 9.1

  immanent

  individuality of

  multiplicity of

  society of

  uploading, into computers

  Mind Children (Moravec),

  Mindfulness, 5.1, 11.1

  Minsky, Marvin, 4.1, 5.1

  Mithras

  Modern Times (film),

  Monadology (Leibniz), 11.1, 11.2

  Monads

  Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson),

  Monasteries

  Mondo 2000, 6.1, aft2.1

  Moore, R. Laurence

  Moore, Thomas

  Morales, Ed

  Moravec, Hans, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  More, Max

  Moriarty, Brian

  Mormons, 4.1, 4.2

  Morningstar, Chip

  Morris, William

  Morse, Samuel

  Moses

  Multiple personality disorder

  Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs)

  Multiverses, 8.1, 8.2

  Mumford, Lewis

  Mundus imaginalis

  Murphy, Michael

  Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (Macy),

  Myers, Richard

  Myst (computer game),

  Mystery cults, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, aft1.1

  Mystical positivism

  Mysticism, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 10.1

  Mythinformation, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1

  Myth of the machine

  N

  Nag Hammadi texts, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1, 11.1

  Nanotechnology

  Naranjo, Claudio

  Nature, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Nazis

  Near-death experiences

  Needleman, Jacob

  Nelkin, Dorothy

  Nelson, Ted

  Neoplatonism, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 10.1

  Nero

  Netaphysics

  Net of Indra

  Nettles, Bonnie

  Neuromancer (Gibson), 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 10.2

  New Age, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1

  New Hackers Dictionary, The

  New Jerusalem, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Newman, James R., 3.1

  New Relic

  New Thought movement

  Newton, Isaac, 1.1, 2.1, 9.1

  Nichols, Nichelle

  Nichols, Thomas

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, itr.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  9/11, aft1.1, aft1.2, aft1.3

  Noble, David, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1

  Noise, 3.1, 3.2

  Noosphere, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  Novelty, aft1.1, aft1.2, aft2.1

  Nuclear weapons

  O

  Odyssey (Homer),

  Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph, 2.1, 2.2

  Olcott, Henry Steel

  Omega point, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  Ong, Walter, 1.1, 6.1

  Oppenheimer, Robert

  Orality and Literacy (Ong), 1.1, 6.1

  Oration on the Dignity of Man (Pico della Mirandola),

  Orgone

  Ornstein, Robert, 7.1, 7.2

  Orpheus

  Orphism, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1

  Orridge, Genesis P-

  Osmose (electronic art exhibit),

  Otherkin

  Ouroboros

  Ouspensky, P. D.

  Out of Control (Kelly), 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2

  P

  Paganism, 6.1, 7.1

  Panopticon, 10.1, 10.2, aft1.1

  Paracelsus, 1.1, 2.1

  Paramount

  Paranoia, 4.1, aft2.1. See also Conspiracy theories

  Participation, 6.1, 6.2<
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  Passport to Magonia (Vallee),

  Patriot Act

  Paul, Saint, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 8.1

  Peak experiences

  Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, The (Wertheim),

  Pentecost, 9.1, 9.2

  Pentecostalism, 9.1, 9.2

  Pesce, Mark, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  Peters, Tom

  Phaedrus (Plato), 1.1, 1.2

  Phenomenon of Man, The (Teilhard), 10.1, 10.2

  Phenomenon of Science, The (Turchin),

  Philo of Byzantium

  Philosopher’s stone

  Phoenicians, ancient

  Physics of Immortality, The (Tipler),

  Picatrix, 1.1, 1.2

  Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1.1, 4.1

  Piece of Blue Sky, A (Atack),

  Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan),

  Piltdown man

  Pinsky, Robert

  Pirsig, Robert

  Plant, Sadie, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2

  Plato, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1

  Platonism, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Pleiadians

  Plotinus

  Poaching, 6.1, 6.2

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poindexter, John

  Polygraphia (Trithemius of Wurzberg),

  Porush, David, 1.1, 9.1

  Positive thinking

  Post, Isaac

  Postman, Neil

  Postmodernism, 11.1, aft2.1

  Poststructuralists

  Preface to Plato (Havelock),

  Presley, Elvis

  Price, Richard

  Printing press, 1.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2

  Privacy, 7.1, 10.1

  Probability

  Procter & Gamble

  Progress, 9.1, 11.1

  Prometheus, 1.1, 11.1

  Prospect of Immortality, The (Ettinger),

  Protestantism, . See also Reformation

  Psyche, 1.1, 1.2

  Psychedelic Experience, The (Leary, Metzner, and Alpert),

  Psychedelics, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, aft2.1

  Psychic TV

  Psychology

  Behaviorism

  Buddhist, 5.1, 5.2

  humanist

  Psychonauts, 5.1, 5.2, aft2.1

  Psychotherapy

  Ptolemy II

  Puritanism

  Pursuit of the Millennium, The (Cohn),

  Puységur, Marquis de

  Pynchon, Thomas

  Pyrotechnia

  Pythagoras, 1.1, 4.1

  Pythagoreans

  Q

  Quake (computer game),

  Quantum mechanics

  Queen Mu

  Quickening

  Quimby, Phineas

  R

  Radar

  Radiation therapy

  Radio, 2.1, 5.1, 9.1

  Radionics

  Rama

  Ram Dass

  Ramsay, W. M.

  Raudive, Konstantin

  Raves

  Ray, Thomas, 10.1, 10.2

  Reality tunnels

  Real Magic (Bonewits),

  Redundancy, 3.1, 3.2

  Reformation, 4.1, 9.1

  Regis, Ed, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Reich, William

  Relativity sickness, 8.1, 8.2

  Religion. See also specific religions

  African-based

  American, 2.1, 4.1, 9.1

  history of, aft2.1, aft2.2

  nature

  postmodern

  Religion of Technology, The (Noble), 4.1, 9.1

  Religious imagination, itr.1, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1

  “Remaking Social Practices” (Guattari)

  Renaissance, 7.1, 7.2

  Resonance

  Resource One

  Revelation, Book of, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1

  Rheingold, Howard, 6.1, 10.1

  Ritter, J. W.

  Ritual, 6.1, 7.1

  Road to Xenu, The (Wakefield),

  Robbins, Anthony

  Robertson, Pat, 9.1, 9.2

  Role-playing games (RPGs), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, aft2.1

  Roman Catholic Church, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1

  Rome, ancient, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1, aft1.1

  Ronell, Avital, 2.1, 2.2

  Röntgen, Wilhelm

  Ross, Andrew

  Rossetto, Louis, 10.1, 10.2

  Roswell (New Mexico)

  Roszak, Theodore, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1

  Royal Society, 1.1, 4.1

  RPGs. See Role-playing games

  S

  Sacred technologies, 5.1, 5.2, aft1.1

  Santa Fe Institute

  Saucers Speak, The (Williamson),

  Schelling, Friedrich

  Schultz, Pit

  Science, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 11.1

  Science fiction, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, aft1.1, aft2.1

  Scientology, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 9.1

  Scientology: A History of Man (Hubbard),

  Scriptural interpretation, 9.1, 9.2

  Séances. See Mediums; Spiritualism

  “Secret Book of John,”

  Sefer Yetzirah

  Sefiroth

  Self, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 11.1

  Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins),

  Seneca

  Serapis

  Serres, Michel

  SETI

  Sex

  Seymour, William

  Sferics

  Shakers

  Shamans, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  Shannon, Claude, 3.1, 3.2

  Shea, Robert

  Shelley, Mary

  Silicon Valley, 6.1, aft2.1

  Simplicius

  Simulations, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2

  Simulations (Baudrillard),

  Singer, June

  Singularity, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, aft1.1, aft1.2

  Sirius, R. U., 6.1, 6.2

  Skepticism, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, aft2.1

  Slender Man

  Sloterdijk, Peter

  Smart, Christopher

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, F. O. J., 2.1, 9.1

  Snow Crash (Stephenson), 7.1, 9.1

  Snowden, Edward

  Social Darwinism

  Society for Creative Anachronism

  Society of Aetherius

  Society of the spectacle, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Socrates

  Soleri, Paolo

  Soul, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1

  Soul-work

  Space technology

  Speaking in tongues, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Specktowsky, A. J., 9.1, 9.2

  Speer, Albert

  Spenser, Edmund, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  Spinrad, Norman

  Spirit

  Spiritual cyborgs, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Spiritualism, 2.1, 2.2

  Sprague de Camp, L.

  Starhawk

  Starseed Transmissions, The (Carey), 8.1, 9.1

  Star Trek, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

  Steganographia (Trithemius of Wurzberg),

  Stein, Dan

  Stephenson, Neil, 7.1, 9.1

  Sterling, Bruce, 7.1, aft2.1

  Stillings, Dennis

  Stockhausen, Karlheinz

  Stoker, Bram

  Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein),

  Streiker, Lowell

  Strieber, Whitley

  Students for a Democratic Society

  Sumerians, 1.1, 2.1

  Surveillance, 2.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Sutin, Lawrence

  Swaggart, Jimmy

  Sword and sorcery, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, aft2.1

  Systems theory, 3.1, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1

  T

  Talmud

  Tamagotchis

  Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja

  Taoism

  Tao of Physics, The (Capra),

  Tarot

  Tart, Charles, 5.1, 5.2

  T.A.Z. (Bey),

  Technique, 5.1, 6.1

  Technological Society, The (Ellul), 5.1, 6
.1

  Technological sublime, 2.1, 10.1

  Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 11.1, aft2.1, aft2.2

  Telegraph, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 9.1

  Telephone, 2.1, 9.1

  Telephone Book, The (Ronell),

  Telescopes, itr.1, 2.1

  Televangelists, 9.1, 9.2

  Television, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, aft2.1, aft2.2

  Temple ov Psychic Youth (TOPY)

  Tesla, Nikola, 2.1, 9.1

  Tesla coil

  Thacker, Eugene

  Thamus, King, 1.1, 1.2

  Theater

  Theater and Its Double, The (Artaud),

  Theology of Electricity, The (Benz),

  Theosophy, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1

  Thermodynamics, second law of

  Thetans

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Third Wave, The (Toffler),

  Thompson, Keith, 8.1, 8.2

  Thompson, William Irwin, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1

  Thoth, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5

  Thousand Plateaus, A (Deleuze and Guattari),

  Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The (Dick), 8.1, 9.1

  Tibetan Book of the Dead, 5.1, 5.2

  Tierra program

  Tilton, Robert

  Timaeus (Plato), 3.1, 4.1

  TinyMUDs

  Tipler, Frank

  Tipton, Steven

  Toffler, Alvin

  Toland, John

  Tolkien, J. R. R., 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  TOPY. See Temple ov Psychic Youth

  Torah, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1

  Totalitarianism, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Towards a Cosmic Music (Stockhausen),

  Transubstantiation

  Tribalism

  Trithemius of Wurzberg, Johannes, 7.1

  Truax, Bob

  Trubshaw, Roy

  True Names (Vinge), 7.1, 7.2

  Truman, Harry

  Tulpamancy

  Turchin, Valentin

  Turing, Alan

  Turing’s Man (Bolter),

  Turkle, Sherry, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1

  Turner, Victor

  T_Vision

  Twin Peaks (TV show),

  Tylor, Edward

  U

  UFOs (unidentified flying objects), itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. See also Abduction experiences; Extraterrestrials

  Uhrmann, T. M.

  Unconscious

  collective, 7.1, 8.1

  concept of, 2.1, 5.1

  Understanding Media (McLuhan),

  Unheimlich, 2.1, 2.2

  Unification Church

  UPC (Universal Product Code)

  Uploading

  User interfaces

  Utopia

  Extropian

  techno-, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 9.1

  V

  Valentinus

  VALIS (Dick), 8.1, 9.1, 9.2

  VALIS (vast active living intelligence system), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Vallee, Jacques, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Varley, C. F.

  Vernadsky, Vladimir

  Vietnam War

  Village Voice, aft2.1, aft2.2

  Vinge, Vemor, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Virilio, Paul, 9.1, 9.2

  Virtual Realism (Heim),

  Virtual reality (VR), 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, aft2.1

  Vishnu

  Visualization

  Vitalism, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1

  Vivekananda, Swami

  Vodou, 7.1, 10.1

  Voegelin, Eric

  Voll, Reinhardt

 

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