Reddit mentions of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information (Five Star Paperback)

Also, this seems like a good time to recommend the book TechGnosis by Erik Davis. He does an amazing job of walking the reader through history, showing how powerfully science and the occult have always been connected, and remain connected. I really recommend it if you can find a copy (try your library).

if a spell is the abbreviated version of spelling, then surely the internet is the most sophisticated spell ever yet devised what with knowledge and literature once being confined to the upper castes of society and now made available to the mass-collective of minds. and what is an artistic creation but a magickal evocation, now delivered to your mind with the click of a button from the other side of the world, this is technomagick! a book you might find interesting is Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information

haven't i, with this post - just performed an act of magick by influencing your mind reading this, creating new associations and influencing you towards the direction i've decided to put into this little byte sized spell ?

what if a world, directly designed by the mind instantaneously was available in the form of hyper-connected virtual reality realms where all sensations were simulations and one could design-on-the-fly, the visions, tastes, sounds, smells and tactile sensations one wanted to imbibe? i'm sure you're all familiar with the notion that it's statistically assured in probability, that we are living in a simulation already due to intelligence evolving to greater and greater understanding somewhere in the universe and creating it's own new simulation of a new universe ad infinitum.

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