Davis: Ch. 4-5 (Lauren)

This visual shows a sort of timeline documenting certain “artifacts” that Davis mentions throughout these chapters. Starting at the bottom with the beginning of chapter four where he discusses gnostic religion and ending at the top with a computer demonstrating Davis’s belief that computers are essentially psychedelics. 

Below is a list of my notes about topics that stood out throughout these chapters in Davis’s book, which helped me create the visual: 

Religion- Gnostic
“Hermetic America” - dollar bill eye at top o pyramid 
Freemasonry - masonic lodges
Cosmology
NASA
The cowboy (hybrid o the arthurian knight) and the wild west
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Cyberspace
Extropians
Plato
Star Trek
Space tech (UFO)
Stars
Evolution (ape…human)
Controlling our animal souls (instinct) become machines ourselves, withdrew from animistic imagination
Relationship between man and machines  
Clocks
E-meter
MEST (matter, energy, space, time)
Scientology
Technology: radio, newspaper, stereos, tv, the pill, electric guitar
LSD - Psychedelics (communication that channel info into the mind while shaping that info into dreamtime
Zen (monks)
Drugs and meta programming tricks like yoga and isolation tanks help trigger a circuit which takes us progressively further into non ordinary reality
Computers are psychedelics 

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