Psychedelic Thinking and the Dawn of Homo Cyber — FOOTNOTES

1. It was the enlightened Hollywood director, Lewis Carlino, I heard say this. However, I am not sure if it is an original quote or if he was quoting another source.

2. The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing The World by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., (New York: Harmony Books, 2000).

3. Ray and Anderson, pp. 17-18.

4. The Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality by Ken Wilbur (Boston: Shambhala, 2000).

5. See my book, The Spirit of the Internet: Speculations on the Evolution of Global Consciousness, pp. 48–52 (Matrix Masters, 2000) for a discussion of the concept of “cyberdelic.”

6. The Borg are a fictional race of beings who are cybernetically enhanced humanoids. Seen on the television program Star Trek.

7.The concept of a technological singularity is explained more fully in my book, The Spirit of the Internet, pp. 89–94.

8. An entheogen is a substance which, when ingested by humans, facilitates the realization that the divine infuses all of creation.

9. “You Hip To The Entheogen (R)evolution?” by Josh Wickerham, The Michigan Daily (Thursday, April 5, 2001).

10. Erowid’s website may be found at www.erowid.org , and the address of the MAPS website is www.maps.org.

11. Jump Time: Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change by Jean Houston, Ph.D. (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2000).

12. Houston, p. 27.

13. See The Spirit of the Internet, pp. 83–89, for an overview of Mayan prophecies for the year 2012.

14. The Alchemind Society’s website may be found at www.alchemind.org.

15. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, p. 192 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).

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