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==Modern technologies of knowing and reality manufacture==

==Modern technologies of knowing and reality manufacture==

Excerpted from ‘Shamanism is the original neurotheology’ article on Dr. Winkelman’s homepage located at http://www.public.as u.edu/~atmxw/neur o.html.

Excerpted from ‘Shamanism is the original neurotheology’ article on Dr. Winkelman’s homepage located at https://www.public.as u.edu/~atmxw/neur o.html.

Shamanism, then, represents a series of individual performances in a dynamic complex across space and time, a going beyond (Luna and White 2000). A key aspect of shamanism from ‘both worlds’, from the landscapes of the Southern African San Bushman and the Amazonian ayahuascero, is that it is a way which embraces a deep relationship with nature.   

Shamanism, then, represents a series of individual performances in a dynamic complex across space and time, a going beyond (Luna and White 2000). A key aspect of shamanism from ‘both worlds’, from the landscapes of the Southern African San Bushman and the Amazonian ayahuascero, is that it is a way which embraces a deep relationship with nature.   

Parallel consciousness takes on another dimension for physicist Fred Alan Wolf - altering the way in which we see reality alters reality. Existence as we know it is a subset of reality which is unknowable. Our minds are tuneable to these multiple dimensions or multiple realities (Wolf 1991).  

Parallel consciousness takes on another dimension for physicist Fred Alan Wolf - altering the way in which we see reality alters reality. Existence as we know it is a subset of reality which is unknowable. Our minds are tuneable to these multiple dimensions or multiple realities (Wolf 1991).  

From her online ‘Immersense’ exhibition notes: http://www.immerse nce.com/immersenc e_home.htm.

From her online ‘Immersense’ exhibition notes: https://www.immerse nce.com/immersenc e_home.htm.

==Em-bodi-ment (mind/body alchemy)==

==Em-bodi-ment (mind/body alchemy)==

==Manufacturing reality==

==Manufacturing reality==

‘Experience Design: And the Design of Experience’ by Erik Davis. Paper published on the Internet at: http://www.techgnosis.com/experience. html. This piece will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Australian magazine Arcadia.

‘Experience Design: And the Design of Experience’ by Erik Davis. Paper published on the Internet at: https://www.techgnosis.com/experience. html. This piece will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Australian magazine Arcadia.

Altered states of consciousness are real, and as our media technologies get better at drawing us in and out of them, artists and other non-coercive proponents of the human spirit (or whatever you want to call it) need to become familiar with these states, not simply as a source of inspiration, but as modes of expression, communication, and confrontation itself. By recognizing that the material that we are now focused on is not technology but human experience itself, then we take a step closer to that strange plateau where our inner lives unfold into an almost collective surface of shared sensation and reframed perception  -  a surface on which we may feel exposed and vulnerable, but beginning to awake.  

Altered states of consciousness are real, and as our media technologies get better at drawing us in and out of them, artists and other non-coercive proponents of the human spirit (or whatever you want to call it) need to become familiar with these states, not simply as a source of inspiration, but as modes of expression, communication, and confrontation itself. By recognizing that the material that we are now focused on is not technology but human experience itself, then we take a step closer to that strange plateau where our inner lives unfold into an almost collective surface of shared sensation and reframed perception  -  a surface on which we may feel exposed and vulnerable, but beginning to awake.  

#Barbour, J.B. (2000), The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics, New York: Oxford University Press.   

#Barbour, J.B. (2000), The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics, New York: Oxford University Press.   

#Bateson, G. (1976), ‘Invitational Paper’, CoEvolution Quarterly,  http://www.oikos.org/batdual.htm. Bateson, G. (1978), Steps to an Ecology of Mind, London: Granada.  

#Bateson, G. (1976), ‘Invitational Paper’, CoEvolution Quarterly,  https://www.oikos.org/batdual.htm. Bateson, G. (1978), Steps to an Ecology of Mind, London: Granada.  

#Bateson, G. (2000), Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Calvino, I. (1993), Time and the Hunter, London: Picador.  

#Bateson, G. (2000), Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Calvino, I. (1993), Time and the Hunter, London: Picador.  

#Carroll, P. (1987) Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic, USA: Weiser. Connerton, P. (1989), How Societies Remember, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davis, E. (1998), Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mystery in the Age of Information, UK: Serpentstail.  

#Carroll, P. (1987) Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic, USA: Weiser. Connerton, P. (1989), How Societies Remember, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davis, E. (1998), Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mystery in the Age of Information, UK: Serpentstail.  

#Davis, E. (2000), ‘Adventures in Inner Space: Meet the Psychonauts’, first published in the Drugs Issue of American Feed Magazine, 6 November 2000. Paper can be found on the Internet at http://www.techgnosis.com.

#Davis, E. (2000), ‘Adventures in Inner Space: Meet the Psychonauts’, first published in the Drugs Issue of American Feed Magazine, 6 November 2000. Paper can be found on the Internet at https://www.techgnosis.com.

#Eagar, M. and Potgieter, E. (2002), ‘Exploring the contours of mind & consciousness through  Magico-spiritual  techniques’,  in  NeuroTheology:  Brain,  Science, Spirituality & Religious Experience, California: University of California Press.   

#Eagar, M. and Potgieter, E. (2002), ‘Exploring the contours of mind & consciousness through  Magico-spiritual  techniques’,  in  NeuroTheology:  Brain,  Science, Spirituality & Religious Experience, California: University of California Press.   

#Harner, M. (1990), The Way of the Shaman, San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco.  

#Harner, M. (1990), The Way of the Shaman, San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco.  

#Metzner, R. (ed.) (1999), Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature, New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.  

#Metzner, R. (ed.) (1999), Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature, New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.  

#Robinson,  J.M.  (ed.)  (1990),  The  Nag  Hammadi  Library,  revised  edition,  San Francisco: HarperCollins.   

#Robinson,  J.M.  (ed.)  (1990),  The  Nag  Hammadi  Library,  revised  edition,  San Francisco: HarperCollins.   

#Rohrer, T. (1995), ‘Boundless Paradox: a discussion of Heraclitus, Anaximander and Gorgias’, paper posted at:  http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/psabstr.htm.  

#Rohrer, T. (1995), ‘Boundless Paradox: a discussion of Heraclitus, Anaximander and Gorgias’, paper posted at:  https://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/psabstr.htm.  

#Sutin,  L.  (1995),  The  Shifting  Realities  of  Philip  K.  Dick:  Selected  Literary  and Philosophical Writings, New York: Vintage.  

#Sutin,  L.  (1995),  The  Shifting  Realities  of  Philip  K.  Dick:  Selected  Literary  and Philosophical Writings, New York: Vintage.  

#Tart, C.T. (1969), Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings, USA: John Wiley.  

#Tart, C.T. (1969), Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings, USA: John Wiley.