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Lauren Studebaker
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Technology and the Spirit
by Kalliopi Mathios
21 blocks • 14 days ago
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On Techno-Theology and the Sacred: Exploring Technology and Spirituality
On Techno-Theology and the Sacred: Expl…
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Deus Ex Machina? Witchcraft and the Techno World
Deus Ex Machina? Witchcraft and the Tec…
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Technology tends to become mythic. I use this word in the sense in which it was used by the French literary critic, Roland Barthes. He used the word "myth" to refer to a common tendency to think of our technological creations as if they were God-given, as if they were a part of the natural order of things. I have on occasion asked my students if they know when the alphabet was invented. The question astonishes them. It is as if I asked them when clouds and trees were invented. The alphabet, they believe, was not something that was invented. It just is. It is this way with many products of human culture but with none more consistently than technology. Cars, planes, TV, movies, newspapers--they have achieved mythic status because they are perceived as gifts of nature, not as artifacts produced in a specific political and historical context.

Neil Postman
Coding as Divination
by Laurel Schwulst
9 blocks • about 1 month ago
Astrology Is Fake, but It's Probably Fine
Astrology Is Fake, but It's Probably Fi…
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Packwood, R. - Memetic Magic - Manipulation of the Root Social Matrix and the Fabric of Reality
Packwood, R. - Memetic Magic - Manipula… 

Three main types of gnosis are described:
• Inhibitory gnosis is a form of deep meditation into a trance state of mind. This type of gnosis uses slow and regular breathing techniques, absent thought processes, progressive muscle relaxation, self-induction and self-hypnosis techniques. Means employed may also include fasting, sleeplessness, sensory deprivation and hypnotic or trance-inducing drugs.
• Ecstatic gnosis describes a mindlessness reached through intense arousal. It is aimed to be reached through sexual excitation, intense emotions, flagellation, dance, drumming, chanting, sensory overload, hyperventilation and the use of disinhibitory or hallucinogenic drugs.
• Indifferent vacuity was described by Phil Hine and Jan Fries as a third method. Here the intended spell is cast parenthetically, so it does not raise much thought to suppress.

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