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Bible Code, The (Drosnin),
Bill of Rights
Binary code, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Bioenergy, 2.1, 2.2
Biofeedback, 5.1, 5.2
Bions
Blake, William
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Bloom, Harold, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
Bolter, Jay David, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Boltzman, Ludwig
Bonewits, Isaac
Book of Common Prayer, 1.1, 9.1
Books and Readers in the Early Church (Gamble),
Boykin, William
Braid, James
Brain
collective
as extraterrestrial organ
as transceiver of galactic information
waves, 5.1, 5.2
Brand, Stewart, 6.1, 6.2, aft2.1
Brautigan, Richard
Brave New World (Huxley),
Brazel, Mac
Bringers of the Dawn (Marciniak),
Britten, Emma Hardinge
Brooks, Frederick
Brown, Dan
Brown, Norman O., 1.1, 1.2
Brumbaugh, Robert
Bruno, Giordano, 7.1, 7.2
Budapest, Z.
Buddha, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2
Buddhism, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 11.1, aft1.1
Bulletin board systems (BBSs), 6.1, 6.2, aft2.1
Bunyan, John, 7.1, 7.2
Burke, James, 7.1, 7.2
Burning Man festival, 6.1, aft2.1
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, William S.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Vannevar
C
Calvinism
Cameron, Andy
Cameron, Charles
Camillo, Giulio, 7.1, 7.2
Campbell, Jeremy
Campbell, John, Jr.
Campbell, Joseph
Capra, Fritjof
Carey, Ken, 8.1, 9.1
Carpocrates
Carpocratians
Caruso, Enrico
Castle of Otranto (Walpole),
Catholic Church. See Roman Catholic Church
Causality, 6.1, 6.2
Censorship, 4.1, 4.2
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chamberlin, E. R.
Channeling, 2.1, 8.1
Chaos (Gleick),
Chaos magic
Chaplin, Charlie
Chat rooms, 7.1, 7.2
Chi
Children of God
Chomsky, Noam
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), 9.1, 9.2
Christianity, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Christian Science, 2.1, 5.1
Chuang Tzu
Churchland, Patricia and Paul
Church of All Worlds
Church of the SubGenius
CIA, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Cicero
Clarke, Arthur C
Clifton, Chas
Clinton, Bill
Clynes, Manfred
COBOL (computer language)
Codes, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
Codex
Cognition, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, aft2.1
Cohn, Norman
Collective anarchy
Collective intelligence
Collective unconscious, 7.1, 8.1
Collins, Francis
Colossal Cave. See Adventure
Communication, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Communications Decency Act
Communion
Communion (Strieber),
Communism, 9.1, 9.2
Community Memory, 6.1
Compassion
Complexity theory, 3.1, 10.1
Computer(s). See also Internet
animism and
and chaos, complexity, and
artificial life
early, 3.1, 3.2
games, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
hacker culture, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
as idol, itr.1, 4.1
industry, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
mind as, 5.1, 5.2
networked, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Paganism and, 6.1, 6.2
personal, 6.1, 6.2
programming, 7.1, 7.2
psychedelic nature of, 5.1, 6.1
spiritual dimension of
universe as
uploading mind into
user interfaces
women as
Comte, Auguste
Confessions (St. Augustine), 1.1, 7.1
Consciousness, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 10.1, aft1.1, aft1.2, aft2.1
Consensus reality, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, aft1.1, aft2.1, aft2.2
Consensus trance, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Conspiracy theories, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, aft2.1
Contact (film),
Convergence
Conze, Edward
Cook, Francis
Corbin, Henry
Corpus Hermeticum. See Hermetica
Cosmic Trigger (Wilson),
Cosmopedia
Couliano, Ioan, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
Counterculture, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 7.1
Count Zero (Gibson),
Covino, William A.
Cowboys
Creative magic
Crick, Francis
Crookes, William
Crossroads
Crowley, Aleister, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Crowther, Will, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Cryogenics
Ctesibius
Cthulhu mythos
Cults, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2. See also Aum Shinrikyo cult; Heaven’s Gate; Mystery cults
Culture, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Cuomo, Mario
Cyberdelia, 6.1, 6.2
Cybergrace (Kreisberg),
Cybernetics, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 11.1
CyberSamhain
Cyberspace, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, aft2.1. See also Computer(s); Internet
Cyberthon
Cyborgs, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
D
D & D
Dante Alighieri, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Darwin, Charles, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1, 10.2
Davies, Char
Da Vinci Code, The (Brown), aft1.1, aft1.2
Davis, Andrew Jackson
Dawkins, Richard, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, aft2.1
Day of the Dolphin, The (film),
Deadheads
Dead Sea Scrolls, 3.1
Death
Debord, Guy
De Certeau, Michel
Declaration of Independence
“Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, A,”
Dee, John, 7.1, 9.1
Deep Blue
Deism
Deleuze, Gilles, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, aft2.1
Democritus
Dery, Mark, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Desaguliers, John Theophilus
Descartes, René, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1
Dewey, John
Dianetics
DiAngelo, Rio
Dibbell, Julian, 7.1, 7.2, aft2.1
Dick, Philip K., 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, aft1.1, aft2.1
Diggers
Digital Dante Project
Digital frontier
Digital vs. analog, itr.1, 2.1
Direct current
Disembodied spirit theory
Disinformation
Disney, 1.1, 6.1
Divine Comedy (Dante), 7.1, 7.2
Diviš, Prokop
DNA, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
DNA Mystique, The (Nelkin and Lindee),
Docetism
Dodds, E.R.
Dods, John
Dolphins
Domitian
Doom (computer game),
Doors of Perception, The (Huxley),
Doppelganger
Dracula (Stoker),
Dragonriders of Pern, The (McCaffrey),
Drawing Down the Moon (Adler),
Drosnin, Michael
Drown, Ruth
Dualism, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, aft1.1
Dungeons & Dragons (game),
DuPont Corporation
E
Earth, images of, from space
Earth in the Balance (Gore),
Earth-Span
Eco, Umberto, 7.1, 9.1
Ecological fear
Ecstasy, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eden
Edison, Thomas, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
EFF. See Electronic Frontier Foundation
Egypt, ancient, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1
Egyptian Hermes, The (Fowden),
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
Electrical psychology
Electric Church, The (Armstrong),
Electricity, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 9.1
Electromagnetic imaginary, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Electromagnetism, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 4.1, 6.1
Electrons
Electropollution
Electropsychometer (E-meter)
Eleusinian Mysteries
ELF (extremely low frequency) waves
Eliade, Mircea, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1
Ellul, Jacques, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2.1, 4.1
E-meter. See Electropsychometer
Empire Strikes Back, The (film),
Encryption. See Codes
Encyclopedias
Engels, Friedrich
Engrams
ENIAC computer, 3.1, 5.1
Enigma
Enlightenment, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, aft1.1, aft2.1, aft2.2
Enneads (Plotinus),
Eno, Brian
Enquire (hypertext system)
Entropy, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1
Environmentalism
Epithemeus
Erie Canal
Esalen Institute, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Escape Velocity (Dery), 4.1, 5.1
Esoterroist (Orridge),
est, 5.1, 5.2
Ether, 2.1, 2.2
Ethereum
Etheric body
Ettinger, Bob
Eucharist
Evil
Evolution, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Existentialism
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Florman),
Exo-Psychology (Leary), 5.1, 5.2
Extraterrestrials, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5. See also Abduction experiences; UFOs
Extropians, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
Extropy
F
Fairie Queen, The (Spenser), 7.1, 8.1
Falwell, Jerry
Fantasy, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, aft2.1
Faraday, Michael, 2.1, 2.2
Fascism
Fear (Hubbard),
Fear economy
Feedback loops, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 11.1
Ficino, Marsilio, 1.1, 1.2
Fish logo
Fitting, Peter
Fletcher, Angus, 7.1, 7.2
Flexner Report
Florman, Samuel C.
Flower Garland Sutra
Fludd, Robert
Fluidium
Flying saucers. See UFOs
Flying Saucers (Jung),
Ford, Henry
Forge and the Crucible, The (Eliade),
Forms, 1.1, 4.1
Foster, Jodie
Foucault, Michel, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Foucault’s Pendulum (Eco),
Fowden, Garth
Fox, Matthew
Fox sisters, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Frankenstein (film),
Frankenstein (Shelley),
Frankfurt School, 1.1, 6.1
Franklin, Benjamin, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2
Franks, John
Frazer, James
Fredkin, Edward, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
Freedom, 4.1, 4.2
Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (Hoeller),
Freemasonry
Free Spirit
French, Peter
Freud, Sigmund, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 7.1
Frontier
Fuller, Buckminster
Fuller, Robert
Fundamentalists, 9.1, aft1.1
Future of Man, The (Teilhard),
G
Gaian mind, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, aft1.1
Galen
Galileo
Galvani, Luigi
Gamble, Harry, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
Garcia, Jerry
Garden of Eden
Gardner, Gerald
Geek culture
General Motors
Genesis, Book of, 2.1, 3.1
Genetic engineering
Genetic essentialism
Gergen, Kenneth
Gibson, William, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 10.1, 10.2, aft2.1
Gilder, George, 4.1, 9.1
Gilmore, John
Gingrich, Newt, 6.1, 9.1
Glass Bead Game, The (Hesse),
Gleick, James
Glenn, John
Globalization, 10.1, 10.2, aft1.1
Glossolalia. See Speaking in tongues
Gnosticism, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, aft1.1
Gnostic Religion, The (Jonas),
God
evil and
knowledge of
monads and
monotheistic
name of
Godwin, Joscelyn
Godwin, Mike
Goethe, Johann, 2.1, 2.2
Google, 6.1, 10.1
Gore, Al, 10.1, 10.2
Gospel of the Egyptians
Gospel of Thomas, 11.1, aft1.1
Gould, Stephen Jay
Govinda, Anagarika
Grateful Dead, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon),
Great Divide, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition (Regis)
Greece, ancient, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1
Greek alphabet
Green, Elmer
Grimes, J. Stanley
Grimes, Ronald
Grosso, Michael
Guattari, Felix, 5.1, 11.1, aft2.1
GUI (graphical user interface)
Guppy, Mrs.
Gurdjieff, G. I., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Gutenberg, Johannes, 9.1, 9.2
Gygax, Gary
Gysin, Brion
H
Hacker Crackdown, The (Sterling),
Hacker culture, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Hackers (Levy), 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Hafner, Katie
Hale-Bopp comet, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Haraway, Donna
Hare Krishnas
Haut, Walter
Havel, Václav
Havelock, Eric A., 1.1
Heaven’s Gate, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Hebrew alphabet, 1.1, 1.2
Hecateus of Abdera
Hegel, Georg, 9.1, 10.1
Heidegger, Martin, 2.1, 5.1, 10.1
Heim, Michael, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1
Heinlein, Robert, 4.1, 6.1
Helmont, Jean Baptist van
Hephaestus, 1.1, 1.2
Heracles
Heresies
Hermeneutics
Hermes, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
Hermes the Thief (Brown),
Hermes Trismegistus, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1
Hermetica, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Heron, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Hesse, Herman
Hieroglyphs, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 6.1, 7.1
Hillis, Daniel
Hillman, James, itr.1, 1.1
Hinduism, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 7.1
Hip-hop
Hippies, 5.1, 5.2
Hitler, Adolf, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
Hoeller, Stephan, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Hofstadter, Richard
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Hollywood, 4.1, 4.2
Homebrew Computer Club
Homeopathy
Homer, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Homoplasmates
Hopkins, Budd
Horror
Howard, Robert E.
How I Rose from the Dead in My Spare Time and So Can You (Specktowsky),
Hubbard, L. Ron, 5.1, 9.1
Hubble telescope
Human Genome Project, 3.1, 5.1, aft1.1
Humanism
Humanist psychology
Human potential movement, 5.1, 5.2
Human Use of Human Beings, The (Wiener), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Hume, David
Humphrey, N. K., 9.1, 9.2
Hutchison, Michael
Huxley, Aldous, 5.1, 8.1
Huxley, Julian
Hybrids
“Hymn of the Pearl,” 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2
Hymn to Hermes
Hyperreal
Hypertext, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1
Hypnotism, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1
I
Ichazo, Oscar
I Ching, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1
Ichthus
Id, 7.1, 7.2
Identity, 7.1, 10.1
Iliad (Homer), 1.1, 1.2
Indra’s net. See Net of Indra
Inferno (Dante),
Infocalypse
Info-Psychology (Leary),
Information
capitalism
definition of, itr.1, 3.1
economy
entropy and
human personality as
hypostasis of
meaning and
meta-
overload, 3.1, 6.1, 9.1
receivers of
revolution
sacred technologies and
self and
technology, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, aft1.1
theory, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
In Search of the Miraculous (Ouspensky), 5.1, 5.2
Intel
Intelligence
artificial, 6.1, 7.1
collective
International Monetary Fund
Internet. See also Cyberspace; World Wide Web
complexity of, 7.1, 7.2
as environment rather than tool
future of, 9.1, 11.1
growth of
impact of
Indra’s net and
libertarianism on
as liminal zone
multiplicities
mythology of
popularity of
religious metaphor for
of things
Involution
Ishmael, Rabbi
“I Sing the Body Electric” (Whitman)
Isis
Islam, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1, aft1.1
Isolation tank experiments, 5.1, 5.2
J
Jackman, Alonzo
Jackson, Peter, 7.1, aft1.1
Jameson, Fredric
Jefferson, Thomas, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Jesus Christ, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, aft1.1, aft1.2
Jews, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, aft1.1
Joachim of Fiore, 9.1, 11.1
Jobs, Steven, 6.1, 7.1
John of Patmos, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Johnson, Darwin Lee
Johnson, Dennis
Jonas, Hans, 3.1, 8.1
Jornada del Muerto
“Jubilate Agno” (Smart)