Examines the role that machines play in the struggle between
"spiritual man" and "mechanical man" throughout the ages * Explores
how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this
is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence,
and literature * Demonstrates a direct connection between
consciousness and the history of machines in American history *
Looks at the contributions and influence of Grace Hopper, Richard
Feynman, Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk,
David Bohm, Norbert Wiener, and Steve Jobs as well as the Nag
Hammadi Gnostic gospels Humans invented and constructed machines to
aid them as far back as the Stone Age. As the machines became more
complex, they became extensions of the body and mind, and we
naturally began projecting consciousness onto them. As Luke Lafitte
shows in detail, although machines complicate the already
complicated issue of identity, because they are "ours" and "of us,"
they are part of our spiritual development. In this sweeping
exploration of the history of the machine as a tool, as a
transpersonal object to assist human activity, and as a
transitional artifact between spirits and the humans who interact
with them, Lafitte examines the role that machines play in the
struggle between "spiritual man" and "mechanical-man" throughout
history. He interprets the messages, archetypes, and language of
the unconscious in the first popular stories related to
mechanical-men, and he demonstrates a direct connection between
consciousness and the history of machines in American history,
specifically between the inventors of these machines and the
awakening of our imaginations and our powers of manifestation. He
examines the influence of Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas
Edison, Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Elon Musk, David Bohm, and
others and shows how the Nag Hammadi gospels explain how we can
take back our myth and spirit from the machine. Although the term
mechanical-man is a catch-all phrase, Lafitte shows that the term
is also a meeting ground where extra-dimensional communications
between different forms of matter occur. Every machine, android,
robot, and cyborg arose from consciousness, and these
mechanical-men, whether real or fictive, offer us an opportunity to
free ourselves from enslavement to materialism and awaken our
imaginations to create our own realities.
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