Our anonymous Traveller from Brooklyn appears to have composed this little treatise after his first extended stay in E2. It deals with tales of Travellers and inhabitants of the other-world settlements, pioneers' experiences and the like. O…This "bible" of the modern neo-shamanic movement also served as a metaphorical scripture for the pioneers of interdimensional consciousness physics and alternate-world explorers. Not only does it contain innumerable practical hints for the …
Mircea Eliade
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Eliade appears primarily as an intellectual scaffold for understanding shamanism's reinvention in postmodern consciousness exploration, referenced through his foundational work on shamanic practice and its relationship to the sacred. The course readings invoke him to legitimize neo-shamanic frameworks adopted by early cybernetics and consciousness pioneers who sought theoretical grounding for their experiments with altered states and interdimensional thinking. His work functions as a bridge between anthropological authority and the speculative spiritualism that shaped how technologists imagined human-machine interface and transcendence.
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