{"product_id":"machine-intelligence-and-the-imaginal-realm-spiritual-freedom-and-the-re-animation-of-matter-paperback","title":"Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Spiritual Freedom and the Re-Animation of Matter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuke Lafitte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey J. Kripal\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the role that machines play in the struggle between \"spiritual man\" and \"mechanical man\" throughout the ages\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Explores how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence, and literature \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHumans 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough the term \u003ci\u003emechanical-man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuke Lafitte, J.D., Ph.D., is a trial attorney, American history teacher, and co-founder of Dead White Zombies, an award-winning theater group in Dallas, Texas. Partner in a leading law firm in Dallas, he is the author of the three-volume series Chronicles of a Curious Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767678992672,"sku":"9781644114063","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9c1e4cfb3b6ef9814446b3df5a509a44.webp?v=1780315131","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/machine-intelligence-and-the-imaginal-realm-spiritual-freedom-and-the-re-animation-of-matter-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}