Jung, Carl, 1.1, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
K
Kabbalah, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
Kamiya, Joe
Kapor, Mitch, 6.1, 6.2
Kardec, Allan
Kasparov, Garry
Kauffman, Stuart
Kay, Alan
Keel, John
Kelley, Edward
Kelly, Kevin, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
Kemmler, William
Kerényi, Karl
Kesey, Ken
Ketamine
Khan, Hazrat Inayat
Khomeini, Ayatollah
King, George
Kircher, Athanasius
Kirlian photography
Kirn, Walter
Kline, Nathan
Klinzel, Werner
Koans
Kreisberg, Jennifer Cobb
Kroker, Arthur
Kurzweil, Ray
L
Lalonde, Peter and Paul
LambdaMOO, 7.1, aft2.1
Lamont, Stewart
Langton, Chris, 10.1, 10.2
Lanier, Jaron, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, aft2.1
Lao Tzu
Last days system, 10.1, 10.2
Latour, Bruno, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 6.1, aft2.1
Leary, Timothy, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, aft2.1
Lebling, Dave
Leibniz, Gottfried, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2
Lévy, Pierre, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Levy, Steven, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Libertarianism, 4.1, 4.2
Life on the Screen (Turkle),
Lightning, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Lilly, John, 5.1, 5.2
Liminal zones
Lindbergh, Charles
Lindee, M. Susan
Llull, Ramon
Loa
Locke, John
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 7.1, aft1.1
Lotus spreadsheet
Lovecraft, H. P., 6.1, aft2.1, aft2.2
Lovelace, Ada
Lovelock, James
Lovink, Geert, 9.1, 9.2
LSD, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Luhrmann, T. M.
Luther, Martin
Lynch, David
Lyon, Matthew
M
Macintosh computer, 7.1, 7.2
Macy, Joanna, 5.1, 11.1
Macy Conferences
Madness and Civilization (Foucault),
Magic, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2
Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of
Rationality (Tambiah),
Magnetism
Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents
Mani, 3.1, 3.2
Manichaeism, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1
Man-machine metaphor, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 11.1
Marcel, Jesse
Marciniak, Barbara
Marcion
Marconi, Guglielmo, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Marduk
Maritain, Jacques
Mark of the Beast, The (Lalonde and Lalonde),
Marx, Karl
Marx, Leo
Marxism, 4.1, 9.1
Maslow, Abraham
Masons. See Freemasonry
Mathison, Volney
Matrix, The (film), aft1.1, aft1.2
Matrix Reloaded (film),
Matrix Revolutions (film),
Maxwell, James Clerk, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1
Maze of Death, A (Dick),
McCaffrey, Anne
McCarthy, Joe
McCurdy-Hill, Yvonne
McKenna, Terence, 5.1, aft1.1, aft2.1, aft2.2
McLuhan, Marshall, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, aft1.1
McPherson, Aimee Semple
MDMA
Meaning
Media tribes
Medici, Cosimo de, 1.1
Meditation
Mediums, 2.1, 2.2. See also Spiritualism
Mega Brain Power (Hutchison),
Memes, 9.1, 9.2, aft2.1
Memory
Men in Black
Mercury, 1.1, 1.2
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 2.1, 2.2
Mesmerism, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Metallurgy
Metaphysical economy
Metzner, Ralph
Microscopes, 2.1, 10.1
Mind
as computer, 5.1, 5.2
control, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 9.1
immanent
individuality of
multiplicity of
society of
uploading, into computers
Mind Children (Moravec),
Mindfulness, 5.1, 11.1
Minsky, Marvin, 4.1, 5.1
Mithras
Modern Times (film),
Monadology (Leibniz), 11.1, 11.2
Monads
Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson),
Monasteries
Mondo 2000, 6.1, aft2.1
Moore, R. Laurence
Moore, Thomas
Morales, Ed
Moravec, Hans, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
More, Max
Moriarty, Brian
Mormons, 4.1, 4.2
Morningstar, Chip
Morris, William
Morse, Samuel
Moses
Multiple personality disorder
Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs)
Multiverses, 8.1, 8.2
Mumford, Lewis
Mundus imaginalis
Murphy, Michael
Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (Macy),
Myers, Richard
Myst (computer game),
Mystery cults, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, aft1.1
Mystical positivism
Mysticism, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 10.1
Mythinformation, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
Myth of the machine
N
Nag Hammadi texts, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1, 11.1
Nanotechnology
Naranjo, Claudio
Nature, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
Nazis
Near-death experiences
Needleman, Jacob
Nelkin, Dorothy
Nelson, Ted
Neoplatonism, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 10.1
Nero
Netaphysics
Net of Indra
Nettles, Bonnie
Neuromancer (Gibson), 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 10.2
New Age, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1
New Hackers Dictionary, The
New Jerusalem, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Newman, James R., 3.1
New Relic
New Thought movement
Newton, Isaac, 1.1, 2.1, 9.1
Nichols, Nichelle
Nichols, Thomas
Nietzsche, Friedrich, itr.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
9/11, aft1.1, aft1.2, aft1.3
Noble, David, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1
Noise, 3.1, 3.2
Noosphere, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Novelty, aft1.1, aft1.2, aft2.1
Nuclear weapons
O
Odyssey (Homer),
Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph, 2.1, 2.2
Olcott, Henry Steel
Omega point, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Ong, Walter, 1.1, 6.1
Oppenheimer, Robert
Orality and Literacy (Ong), 1.1, 6.1
Oration on the Dignity of Man (Pico della Mirandola),
Orgone
Ornstein, Robert, 7.1, 7.2
Orpheus
Orphism, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1
Orridge, Genesis P-
Osmose (electronic art exhibit),
Otherkin
Ouroboros
Ouspensky, P. D.
Out of Control (Kelly), 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
P
Paganism, 6.1, 7.1
Panopticon, 10.1, 10.2, aft1.1
Paracelsus, 1.1, 2.1
Paramount
Paranoia, 4.1, aft2.1. See also Conspiracy theories
Participation, 6.1, 6.2
Passport to Magonia (Vallee),
Patriot Act
Paul, Saint, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 8.1
Peak experiences
Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, The (Wertheim),
Pentecost, 9.1, 9.2
Pentecostalism, 9.1, 9.2
Pesce, Mark, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Peters, Tom
Phaedrus (Plato), 1.1, 1.2
Phenomenon of Man, The (Teilhard), 10.1, 10.2
Phenomenon of Science, The (Turchin),
Philo of Byzantium
Philosopher’s stone
Phoenicians, ancient
Physics of Immortality, The (Tipler),
Picatrix, 1.1, 1.2
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1.1, 4.1
Piece of Blue Sky, A (Atack),
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan),
Piltdown man
Pinsky, Robert
Pirsig, Robert
Plant, Sadie, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2
Plato, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1
Platonism, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
Pleiadians
Plotinus
Poaching, 6.1, 6.2
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poindexter, John
Polygraphia (Trithemius of Wurzberg),
Porush, David, 1.1, 9.1
Positive thinking
Post, Isaac
Postman, Neil
Postmodernism, 11.1, aft2.1
Poststructuralists
Preface to Plato (Havelock),
Presley, Elvis
Price, Richard
Printing press, 1.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
Privacy, 7.1, 10.1
Probability
Procter & Gamble
Progress, 9.1, 11.1
Prometheus, 1.1, 11.1
Prospect of Immortality, The (Ettinger),
Protestantism, . See also Reformation
Psyche, 1.1, 1.2
Psychedelic Experience, The (Leary, Metzner, and Alpert),
Psychedelics, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, aft2.1
Psychic TV
Psychology
Behaviorism
Buddhist, 5.1, 5.2
humanist
Psychonauts, 5.1, 5.2, aft2.1
Psychotherapy
Ptolemy II
Puritanism
Pursuit of the Millennium, The (Cohn),
Puységur, Marquis de
Pynchon, Thomas
Pyrotechnia
Pythagoras, 1.1, 4.1
Pythagoreans
Q
Quake (computer game),
Quantum mechanics
Queen Mu
Quickening
Quimby, Phineas
R
Radar
Radiation therapy
Radio, 2.1, 5.1, 9.1
Radionics
Rama
Ram Dass
Ramsay, W. M.
Raudive, Konstantin
Raves
Ray, Thomas, 10.1, 10.2
Reality tunnels
Real Magic (Bonewits),
Redundancy, 3.1, 3.2
Reformation, 4.1, 9.1
Regis, Ed, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Reich, William
Relativity sickness, 8.1, 8.2
Religion. See also specific religions
African-based
American, 2.1, 4.1, 9.1
history of, aft2.1, aft2.2
nature
postmodern
Religion of Technology, The (Noble), 4.1, 9.1
Religious imagination, itr.1, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1
“Remaking Social Practices” (Guattari)
Renaissance, 7.1, 7.2
Resonance
Resource One
Revelation, Book of, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
Rheingold, Howard, 6.1, 10.1
Ritter, J. W.
Ritual, 6.1, 7.1
Road to Xenu, The (Wakefield),
Robbins, Anthony
Robertson, Pat, 9.1, 9.2
Role-playing games (RPGs), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, aft2.1
Roman Catholic Church, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
Rome, ancient, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1, aft1.1
Ronell, Avital, 2.1, 2.2
Röntgen, Wilhelm
Ross, Andrew
Rossetto, Louis, 10.1, 10.2
Roswell (New Mexico)
Roszak, Theodore, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1
Royal Society, 1.1, 4.1
RPGs. See Role-playing games
S
Sacred technologies, 5.1, 5.2, aft1.1
Santa Fe Institute
Saucers Speak, The (Williamson),
Schelling, Friedrich
Schultz, Pit
Science, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 11.1
Science fiction, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, aft1.1, aft2.1
Scientology, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 9.1
Scientology: A History of Man (Hubbard),
Scriptural interpretation, 9.1, 9.2
Séances. See Mediums; Spiritualism
“Secret Book of John,”
Sefer Yetzirah
Sefiroth
Self, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 11.1
Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins),
Seneca
Serapis
Serres, Michel
SETI
Sex
Seymour, William
Sferics
Shakers
Shamans, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Shannon, Claude, 3.1, 3.2
Shea, Robert
Shelley, Mary
Silicon Valley, 6.1, aft2.1
Simplicius
Simulations, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2
Simulations (Baudrillard),
Singer, June
Singularity, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, aft1.1, aft1.2
Sirius, R. U., 6.1, 6.2
Skepticism, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, aft2.1
Slender Man
Sloterdijk, Peter
Smart, Christopher
Smith, Adam
Smith, F. O. J., 2.1, 9.1
Snow Crash (Stephenson), 7.1, 9.1
Snowden, Edward
Social Darwinism
Society for Creative Anachronism
Society of Aetherius
Society of the spectacle, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Socrates
Soleri, Paolo
Soul, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
Soul-work
Space technology
Speaking in tongues, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Specktowsky, A. J., 9.1, 9.2
Spenser, Edmund, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Spinrad, Norman
Spirit
Spiritual cyborgs, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Spiritualism, 2.1, 2.2
Sprague de Camp, L.
Starhawk
Starseed Transmissions, The (Carey), 8.1, 9.1
Star Trek, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
Steganographia (Trithemius of Wurzberg),
Stein, Dan
Stephenson, Neil, 7.1, 9.1
Sterling, Bruce, 7.1, aft2.1
Stillings, Dennis
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Stoker, Bram
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein),
Streiker, Lowell
Strieber, Whitley
Students for a Democratic Society
Sumerians, 1.1, 2.1
Surveillance, 2.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Sutin, Lawrence
Swaggart, Jimmy
Sword and sorcery, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, aft2.1
Systems theory, 3.1, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1
T
Talmud
Tamagotchis
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja
Taoism
Tao of Physics, The (Capra),
Tarot
Tart, Charles, 5.1, 5.2
T.A.Z. (Bey),
Technique, 5.1, 6.1
Technological Society, The (Ellul), 5.1, 6
.1
Technological sublime, 2.1, 10.1
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 11.1, aft2.1, aft2.2
Telegraph, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 9.1
Telephone, 2.1, 9.1
Telephone Book, The (Ronell),
Telescopes, itr.1, 2.1
Televangelists, 9.1, 9.2
Television, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, aft2.1, aft2.2
Temple ov Psychic Youth (TOPY)
Tesla, Nikola, 2.1, 9.1
Tesla coil
Thacker, Eugene
Thamus, King, 1.1, 1.2
Theater
Theater and Its Double, The (Artaud),
Theology of Electricity, The (Benz),
Theosophy, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Thermodynamics, second law of
Thetans
Thich Nhat Hanh
Third Wave, The (Toffler),
Thompson, Keith, 8.1, 8.2
Thompson, William Irwin, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1
Thoth, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Thousand Plateaus, A (Deleuze and Guattari),
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The (Dick), 8.1, 9.1
Tibetan Book of the Dead, 5.1, 5.2
Tierra program
Tilton, Robert
Timaeus (Plato), 3.1, 4.1
TinyMUDs
Tipler, Frank
Tipton, Steven
Toffler, Alvin
Toland, John
Tolkien, J. R. R., 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
TOPY. See Temple ov Psychic Youth
Torah, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
Totalitarianism, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2
Towards a Cosmic Music (Stockhausen),
Transubstantiation
Tribalism
Trithemius of Wurzberg, Johannes, 7.1
Truax, Bob
Trubshaw, Roy
True Names (Vinge), 7.1, 7.2
Truman, Harry
Tulpamancy
Turchin, Valentin
Turing, Alan
Turing’s Man (Bolter),
Turkle, Sherry, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1
Turner, Victor
T_Vision
Twin Peaks (TV show),
Tylor, Edward
U
UFOs (unidentified flying objects), itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. See also Abduction experiences; Extraterrestrials
Uhrmann, T. M.
Unconscious
collective, 7.1, 8.1
concept of, 2.1, 5.1
Understanding Media (McLuhan),
Unheimlich, 2.1, 2.2
Unification Church
UPC (Universal Product Code)
Uploading
User interfaces
Utopia
Extropian
techno-, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 9.1
V
Valentinus
VALIS (Dick), 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
VALIS (vast active living intelligence system), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Vallee, Jacques, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Varley, C. F.
Vernadsky, Vladimir
Vietnam War
Village Voice, aft2.1, aft2.2
Vinge, Vemor, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Virilio, Paul, 9.1, 9.2
Virtual Realism (Heim),
Virtual reality (VR), 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, aft2.1
Vishnu
Visualization
Vitalism, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Vivekananda, Swami
Vodou, 7.1, 10.1
Voegelin, Eric
Voll, Reinhardt