Synopses & Reviews
Review
In this book Indick explores the exciting and eerie possibilitiesimplied by the accelerating advances in neuroscience and digital technology and their potential connections to spiritual ideas. Headdresses dreaming and its potential integration with cybertechnology, the neuropsychology of perception, virtual realityand hallucinations, nirvana and other conceptions of unitary consciousness, idolatry and literacy, the history of psychoanalysisand its relevance to both human and machine associative cognition, and the spiritual, sexual, and technological forms of networking andconnection to the other. He ends on a transcendent note suggesting the imminent invention of a God-machine formed from all of thesethreads of progress and presaged by Moore's law of exponential growth in computing power.Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Synopsis
As humans charge up the steep slope of technological innovation, digital age media increasingly shapes our perception of everything--even spiritual matters. The next stage of spiritual development may be the product of a digital interface between our own image of the divine, virtual reality technology that produces real perceptions, and with devices that stimulate areas of the brain associated with spiritual experience. This book explores the influence of digital media on spirituality and the impact of the digital environment on our experience of the spiritual world. The author predicts a future in which digital technology and neuroscience will combine to create a new understanding of the divine. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.