Wagaku - Shinto Shamanic Kagura Dance Music (Kuniburi No Utamai)
林英哲 Ei-tetsu Hayashi & 木下伸市 Shinn-ichi Kino-shita "-SHI-BU-KI-"
Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson & Abraham Maslow. Interview on Milton H. Erickson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
Interesting presentation by Jacques F. Vallee - one of the inventors of ARPANET & close collaborator of Doug Engelbart at SRI: "Software of Consciousness: Intriguing Lessons & Lingering Puzzles on the far side of StarGate"
A Theory of Everything (else)... - talk by Jacques Vallée
"The Urgent Need for Christian Transhumanism" - by Micah Redding
"For most medieval scholars, who believed that God created the universe according to geometric & harmonic principles, science – was linked directly to the divine. To seek these principles, therefore, would be to seek God"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_science_in_the_Middle_Ages
In the final analysis, the modern day military-technology complex closely resembles powerful medieval religious institutions in its structure and ambition. More cult than science - just with updated rational sounding god names.
"Vatican, Microsoft team up on artificial intelligence ethics": https://apnews.com/80a110ab07834c9cbc4a825695a3a7fd #ML #Magic #Politics
While Alan Turing is best known for his contributions to computing, his ideas on other topics were equally interesting. #Magic #Technology
"When the body dies, the 'mechanism' of the body holding the spirit is gone, and the spirit finds a new body sooner or later, perhaps immediately."
– Alan Turing on the death of his boyfriend.
“Most corporate planning is like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather, but those who engage in it think it does. Much of the advice and instruction is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather” - Russel L. Ackoff
"‘Do people like me?’ Why we ask Google unanswerable questions":
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/nov/14/do-people-like-me-why-we-ask-google-unanswerable-questions #Technology #Magic
#Magic and the Machine - essay by David Abram on #Technology and Animism in an age of ecological wipeout: https://emergencemagazine.org/story/magic-and-the-machine/
Placebo Effect and #Magic: https://benebellwen.com/2017/09/23/placebo-effect-and-magic/
A growing selection of ideas, links, books & media, exploring the topic of re-enchantment.
Books:
The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age:
https://www.amazon.com/Re-Enchantment-World-Secular-Magic-Rational/dp/0804752990
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life:
https://www.amazon.com/Re-enchantment-Everyday-Life-Thomas-Moore/dp/0060928247/
The Re-Enchantment of the World: The Value of Spirit Against Industrial Populism:
https://www.amazon.com/Re-Enchantment-World-Industrial-Philosophy-Aesthetics/dp/1441169253/
Presentations:
Narrative re-enchantment as world re-enchantment:
https://www.slideshare.net/SebastienPoulain/narrative-reenchantement-as-world-reenchantement
Algorithmic Voodoo