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Of course it all depends on how you define magik and technology . . .
I’ve just started reading Mc Kenna’s
The Invisible Landscape, which, in looking for a modern equivalent for the magical figure of the shaman comes up with 3 possible options; the artist, the psychoanalyst and the scientist:
quote: From The Invisible Landscape:
… scientists are the creators and keepers of a new mythology of matter. Indeed, the scientist who charts the unexplored levels of organisation to be found in nature, from the bizarre, paradoxical realms of quantum physics to the staggering vastness of the metagalaxy, has much in common with the shaman who journeys through the magical topography of the spirit-world.
From the opening chapters, and the reviews I have read, it seems that McKenna is intent on exploring his own shamanic journey between the disciplines/ sciences of holography, I Ching hexagrams, the Mayan calendar, hallucinogens, DNA, Jung and evolution.
I haven’t got too far into it, but he seems to be postulating some sort of unified theory of mind based on, or concluding with, a frequency modulation predictor called Timewave Zero (I'll let you know when I finish reading it) 
Then there’s Shulgin’s PIHKAL/TIHKAL books which are both meditative/ spiritual and scientific/ technical, and seem to blur the boundaries between magik and science quite nicely.
Perhaps the synthesis of magik and technology is to be found in the work of such “fringe scientists”, merging mind and matter in an evolutionary, 21st century psience? |
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