TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Davis, 1998)

Michael Hoffman, April 28, 2025

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Book Citation and Link

TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Erik Davis, 1998
https://www.amazon.com/TechGnosis-Myth-Magic-Mysticism-Information/dp/0517704153/

by Erik Davis (Author), Eugene Thacker (Foreword)

Blurb:

TechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture;

“appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to
fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers

“How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination?

“In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with
a new afterword
—Erik Davis argues that while

the realms of the digital [sic, informational?] and the spiritual may seem worlds apart,

esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. “

“Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as:

  • electricity
  • alchemy
  • online roleplaying games
  • religious and occult practices
  • virtual reality
  • gnostic mythology
  • programming languages
  • Kabbalah

Apocalyptic Nightmare Dreams

  • the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about
  • a future defined by the mutant intermingling of
    mind and
  • machine,
  • nightmare and <– Egodeath {shadow dragon monster}
  • fantasy.”

Formats: Print, Ebook, Audiobook

Motivation: Erik Davis Audiobook of Zep 4 Is Released Today

Tomorrow, April 29, 2025, audiobook is released, of book Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) (Erik Davis, 2005)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826416586

Motivation: Houot Should Probably Cover TechGnosis

Motivation: Houot’s Call to Receive an Advanced Transformative Alien Transmission Was Done by Decoding Eadwine’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Image in the Great Canterbury Psalter During 2020-2025

Crop by Michael Hoffman
Crop by Michael Hoffman
Crop by Michael Hoffman

Unexpected, Clear, Well-Formed, Advanced Transmitted Message from the Mushroom State that I Was Positioned to Receive and Decode

The best, paradigm example of
receiving an alien transmission and decoding it
is f134 Great Canterbury Psalter: my decoding of it in Nov 2020 (& after, & broader).

The most lofty information-dense image, teaching tool, encoded message [positive connot encoded] – not a damn “coded” “secret” message. Depicts progression of from
basic possibilism-thinking
basic eternalism-thinking
integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

Decoded as a Model of Mental Model Development from possibilism-thinking to qualified eternalism-thinking.

Decoded as a Model of Mental Model Development from:

  1. possibilism-thinking
  2. basic eternalism-thinking
  3. integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

eternalism-thinking:

  • basic eternalism-thinking
    vs
  • integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking; qualified possibilism-thinking ….

Dual-Mode thinking

Dual-Mode possibilism/eternalism thinking

Dual-Mode, integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

Possibilism-Thinking Modified by Eternalism Perceiving

Possibilism-Thinking with Eternalism Perceiving

ultra specific phrase – very grounded.

possibilism-thinking modified by eternalism perceiving <–

The term “eternalism-thinking” has three scopes of meaning:

  • basic eternalism-thinking
  • qualified eternalism-thinking
  • the entire personal control system or mental model after fully integrating eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking

The term “possibilism-thinking” has two meanings:

  • basic possibilism-thinking
  • qualified possibilism-thinking

A lexicon problem: I need a short phrase concept-label and WISH to use ‘eternalism-thinking’ BUT that has 2-3 senses:
basic eternalism-thinking vs
whole-integrated into the whole system that has full harmonious affirmation HEALTHY FULLY developed and maximally strong and max stability.

THE GOAL: Adult stability on high-dose Psilocybin.

By “Psilocybin” – i do NOT mean the real world experience of a guy who ingested actual Psilocybin mushrooms; I mean the IDEAL potential of Psilocybin, in THEORY-LAND, where Amanita is the ultimate super-psychedelic, far superior to mere real-world Psilocybin.

The actual world is stupid. I target instead, Egodeath theoryland, where I am among the immortals, having the knowledge of the immortals, living for garden eternity tree Hesperides guarded by the snake — i want that video! says serpent = snake as monster threat.

The Walled Magical Garden of Egodeath Theoryland: Gate Securely Guarded Against Actual History

In its potent best potential. Do not theorize about the flawed real world of details of history.

Eternalism-thinking that participates in full mature system,
integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking
dual mental model <– vague version of concept-label
dual possibilism-thinking/ eternalism-thinking

possibilism eternalism thinking

eternalism in the wide sense:
integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking

eternalism in the narrow sense:
basic eternalism

Blade hits target potential to disrupt forcing seizure climax death rebirth transformation egoic personal control system.

qualified possibilism-thinking integrated with qualified eternalism-thinking

Eadwine’s 
unexpected, highly well-formed, advanced transmitted message that I was positioned to receive and decode 
in Nov. 2020, when finishing the article requested by Professor Jerry Brown: “compelling evidence and criteria of proof for mushrooms in Christian art”.

The Psalter artist sent an unexpected, highly well-formed, advanced transmitted message that I was positioned to receive and decode in Nov. 2020

Nov 2020, handedness was not yet confirmed as a motif but was avail as a hypoth that I had been trying to test: finally this image gives me something to test the hypoth.

I had to construct my entire theory of mushroom-trees, including {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs – I already the Key Mythemes catalog.

branching-message mushroom trees,

the message of integrating the perceiving of … “vision” Houot asy says “vision” – aility able perceive the difference of two mental models: the branching vs non-branching ; the tree vs snake models. the branching tree vs non-branching snake

δράκων- The Dragon in the West with Professor Daniel Ogden

re: serpent vs snake

Video title:
δράκων- The Dragon in the West with Professor Daniel Ogden
YouTube ch: We Are Being Transformed
July 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q17pjTUhh1c

Motivation of this Page

Decoding Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter is the Greatest Alien Transmission Reception Ever

Crop by Michael Hoffman

Fitting the theme of TechGnosis & Rise of the Psychonaut:

The ultimate cybernetic transmission advanced alien Psilocybin-state communication about control was sent by Eadwine f134 (Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter) in 1200 AD, & received and decoded starting Nov. 2020 by Michael Hoffman, finished in April 2025 upon reading the theme of mature integration of eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking:

In April 2025, I finished receiving & decoding the message by interpreting hanging as advanced integration compared to mere sitting, pointed to by floating sage, who is contrasted as the next step after discovering and perceiving eternalism.

I am comfortable announcing now April 30, 2025: since precursor Xmas 2015 Hatsis Dancing Man salamander bestiary’s mushroom-tree set up the {handedness} hypothesis to predict & test, started decoding Eadwine’s leg-hanging mushroom tree image in the Great Canterbury Psalter in Nov. 2020, and FINISHED DECODING f134 image in April 2025.

2025/04
-2020/11
=
2024/16
-2020/11
= 4 years 5 months

In April 2025, I finished the basic idea of:
integrate eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking;
integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking.

Analogies that instructed and informed my improved completed model of control transformation:

  • Wedding victory Dionysus & Ariadne.
  • The rebis, two heads in one person.
  • Abr & Isaac – post sacrifice – walk away together in blessed prosperity.
  • Rider’s head above donkey’s head = eternalism-thinking above possibilism-thinking. Balaam’s ass; Entry into Jeru.
  • Cautes & Cautopates: the two ways of thinking, Sol + Mithras, wheat bull tail and the Mithras end of the bull w/ R leg straight/ L leg bent, vs. R leg bent on other side of the tauroctony bull-sacrifice scene​.

I decoded {floating sage} f134 row 2 R in relation to [the paired youths: L foot possibilism-thinking & R foot eternalism-thinking], in row 2 R the two youths connected with the Psilocybin Dispensary.

floating sage = hanging guy

The 3 phases of control transformation in Classroom Tree scene:

  1. Student 2 & 4, furrowed brow: naive possibilism-thinking
  2. Student 3, sitting guy in tree: basic eternalism-thinking.
  3. Student 1, teacher, hanging guy in tree: integrate eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking; integrated qualified possibilism-thinking & qualified eternalism-thinking.

The 3 phases of control transformation in Psilocybin Dispensary scene:

  1. L foot youth: naive possibilism-thinking
  2. R foot youth: basic eternalism-thinking.
  3. floating sage: integrate eternalism-thinking into possibilism-thinking; integrated qualified possibilism-thinking & qualified eternalism-thinking.

also the women in row 2 Middle = qualified possibilism-thinking; integrated possibilism/eternalism thinking; that type of “balance”.

Row 2 Middle: women = balance across the two states of cons.
Row 2 Right: R foot “basic eternalism-thinking” youth = balance during intense mystic altered state.

In Nov 2020, I was uniquely equipped to start decoding Eadwine’s alien signal transmitted advanced Psilocybin message by possessing the 2007 Egodeath theory & Mytheme theory, and having the Xmas 2015 hypothesis that per Dancing Man salamander bestiary’s mushroom-tree:

maybe L foot is mapped to possibilism-thinking and R foot in mythic art is mapped to eternalism-thinking.

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