An early paper by Sohrawardi, flooded with wild speculations about quantum and oriental spirituality, probably dating from the period when he was still working for IBM, but making visits to Millbrook, nearby in Dutchess Co., and participati…The Moorish Orthodox Church of America is an offshoot of the Moorish Science Temple, the New World's first Islamic heretical sect, founded by a black circus magician named Noble Drew Ali in Newark NJ in 1913. In the 1950's some white jazz m…
Timothy Leary
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Timothy Leary appears here primarily as a countercultural figure associated with Millbrook, the experimental community in Dutchess County where psychedelic research and spiritual practice intersected during the 1960s. The readings invoke him obliquely—through references to his circle's experimentation with consciousness and alternative spirituality—to map the genealogy of heterodox approaches to mind, technology, and ritual that inform contemporary discussions of AI and cybernetics. His presence in the course frame suggests how earlier explorations of consciousness alteration and human-machine interfaces prefigured later computational theories of cognition and control.
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