The Technical Ecstatic
On shamanism as a technology of consciousness, the structure of the shamanic call, and why this oldest of spiritual practices refuses to be dismissed as primitive superstition
On shamanism as a technology of consciousness, the structure of the shamanic call, and why this oldest of spiritual practices refuses to be dismissed as primitive superstition
On Boyd’s Decision Cycle, the Attention Economy’s Counter-Move, and the Technology of Intentional Awareness
On the Central Distinction of Buber's Thought and Its Immediate Consequences for the Interior Life
On the unexamined assumptions beneath scientific materialism, and why institutional science responds to their critique with censorship rather than argument
On great comedy as structured truth-delivery, the trickster as the figure who can say what the culture prohibits, why the laugh is a micro-initiation and not a response to entertainment, and what the snort, the uncomfortable chuckle, and the offended silence each reveal about the ego's relationship