The Extensions of Man

The Extensions of Man feat. Terence Mckenna Timothy Leary and Mark Pesce

"You know the scene. Social structures the world over are melting
down and mutating, making way for a global Me Village, a Gaian brain, and a whole heap of chaos. The emperor of technoscience has achieved dominion, though his clothes are growing more threadbare by the moment, the once noble costume of Progress barely concealing far more wayward ambitions. Across the globe, ferocious postperestroika capitalism yanks the rug out from under the nation-state, while the planet spits up signs and symptoms of terminal distress. Boundaries dissolve, and we drift into the no-man’s zones between synthetic and organic life, between actual and virtual environments, between local communities and global flows of goods, information, labor, and capital. With pills modifying personality, machines modifying bodies, and synthetic pleasures and networked minds engineering a more fluid and invented sense of self, the boundaries of our identities are mutating as well. The horizon melts into a limitless question mark, and like the cartographers of old, we glimpse yawning monstrosities and mind-forged utopias beyond the edges of our paltry and provisional maps" (Erik Davis)

and all that remains is the possibilities of communications.

The word techgnosis was invented by Erik Davis in an article in 1994 and used as the title of his 1998 book, subtitled Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Techgnosis A kind of information age update of gnosticism, a Christian heresy in which believers rejected the world of matter and yearned for gnosis, a flash of transcendent illumination in which individuals cast off the body and ascended to the real world of the spirit.

Psalms is derived from the Greek translation, ψαλμοί psalmoi, meaning "instrumental music" and, by extension, "the words accompanying the music."

Welcome to a flash of transcendent illumination into technology as the extensions of man, and a dive into hyperspace. “The spiritual imagination seizes information technology for its own purposes.”

background song: Dance With The Dead - Sunset

visuals: The Magic Egg a rare computer animation from 1984 was originally released to Omni Max (dome) theaters which explains why the video doesn't always look centered, and why there are some odd curvatures in places.