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''or Evolving Magico-Spiritual Techniques of Consciousness-Making'' by Manie Eagar

''or Evolving Magico-Spiritual Techniques of Consciousness-Making'' by Manie Eagar

'''Abstract''' -  With the expansion of [[consciousness]] comes new ways of seeing [[reality]]. The hypercontextual  pretexts,  contexts  and  subtexts  created  by  the  new technologies of virtual, immersive and cyber realities create boundaryless [[experience]]s that are analogous to the archaic techniques evolved through [[shaman]]ic journeys designed to [[transcend]] all [[human]] boundaries.  

'''Abstract''' -  With the expansion of [[consciousness]] comes new ways of seeing [[reality]]. The hypercontextual  pretexts,  contexts  and  subtexts  created  by  the  new technologies of virtual, immersive and cyber realities create boundaryless [[experience]]s that are analogous to the archaic techniques evolved through [[Shaman|shamanic]] journeys designed to [[transcend]] all [[human]] boundaries.  

The magico-spiritual [[imagination]], far from disappearing in our supposedly secular age, continues to feed the utopian dreams, apocalyptic [[vision]]s, digital phantasms, and alien obsessions that populate today’s ‘technological unconscious’.  The  [[language]]  and  [[ideas]]  of  the  [[information]]  [[society]]  have slipped into and even transformed the myriad worlds of contemporary [[spirituality]]. What is emerging is a networked framework for grappling with some of the impulses that are currently tearing us apart: [[spirit]] and the [[machine]], modernity and nihilism, technology and the human. ‘We find ourselves  trapped  on  a  cyborg  sandbank,  caught  between  the  old, smouldering campfire stories and the new networks of programming and control’ (Davis 1998: 131). We are ‘beached’ between the archaic sea of our magico-spiritual ancestors, freshly emerged from our proto-modern past, and spawned into the [[postmodern]] reality of fragmented selves, networked options, downloadable digitized consumerware and ‘technologies of [[ecstacy]]’.  

The magico-spiritual [[imagination]], far from disappearing in our supposedly secular age, continues to feed the utopian dreams, apocalyptic [[vision]]s, digital phantasms, and alien obsessions that populate today’s ‘technological unconscious’.  The  [[language]]  and  [[ideas]]  of  the  [[information]]  [[society]]  have slipped into and even transformed the myriad worlds of contemporary [[spirituality]]. What is emerging is a networked framework for grappling with some of the impulses that are currently tearing us apart: [[spirit]] and the [[machine]], modernity and nihilism, technology and the human. ‘We find ourselves  trapped  on  a  cyborg  sandbank,  caught  between  the  old, smouldering campfire stories and the new networks of programming and control’ (Davis 1998: 131). We are ‘beached’ between the archaic sea of our magico-spiritual ancestors, freshly emerged from our proto-modern past, and spawned into the [[postmodern]] reality of fragmented selves, networked options, downloadable digitized consumerware and ‘technologies of [[ecstacy]]’.