TechGnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information
The seed-crystal of my book TechGnosis. "My impulse is not only to contextualize the more spectral dimensions of cyberculture, but to call forth its millennial spark."

Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference
An essay posted on the nettime listserv about Dick, media, and sorta mystical breathroughs. "By insisting on the liberating truths concealed in crossed-wires and mixed messages, Dick serves as a kind of spiritual godfather for media tricksters everywhere, from graffiti artists to video activists to hackers to hoaxers."

The Metaphysics of Philip K. Dick
A brief Cliff's Notes about everybody's favorite mystical schizo SF writer. "One thing you learn from drug addiction, five marriages, and a visionary imagination is how easily your world can fall apart."

Databases of the Dead
A look at the religious roots of the Mormon Church's technological obsessions with genealogical data. "It's open-source time in the great beyond. The Mormon Church, famous for a fixation on departed souls, is dumping a mountain of free data into the red-hot world of Web genealogy."

TechnoPagans: May the Astral Plane be Reborn in Cyberspace
A Wired feature on digital culture's Pagan demimonde. "The Western magical tradition has more to give a wired world than the occasional product name or the background material for yet another hack-and-slash game."

Technoculture and the Religious Imagination
A heady lecture on the religious themes that weave through technoculture, delivered at Metaforum III, October 1996. "The questions of the religious imagination...can no longer simply be written off as a set of dodgy concepts, reactionary ideologies, or regressive retreats from the intellectual and existential rigors of modernism.

Spiritual Telegraphs and the Technology of Communication
A raw transcription of a lecture on telegraphy, Tesla, and the electromagnetic imagination, delivered at Vienna's Public Netbase, April 1997.

Recording Angels
"'I am electrical by nature,' wrote Ludwig von Beethoven. 'Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.' The old man's curious quip introduces us to what I like to call 'the electromagnetic imaginary': the mythic, animistic, and just plain weird cultural dimensions of electricity and electromagnetism, those cosmic forces which carry an imaginative load as powerful for us as air, earth, water and fire were for the ancients."

Tongues of Fire, Whirlwinds of Noise: Images of Spiritual Information
Information metaphysics in the Western religious tradition. "Spiritual information is not restricted to occult correspondences piled on until the mind is blown. Sometimes information comes unbeckoned, a gnostic blast from beyond: inner voices, crystalline dreams, a book opened at random.

A Computer, A Universe: Mapping an Online Cosmology
The literary and religious roots of Gibson's cybercosmos. "Cyberspace tapped into desires far older than digital computers: mystical urges for total awareness, magical urges for total information control."

Digital Dharma
A Wired report on the Asian Classics Input Project, which is porting the dharma from woodblocks to CD-ROM. "If information wants to be free, spiritual information wants to be liberating."

Dead Machines: A review of The Ghost Orchid and electromagnetic voice phenomena
"One thing's for sure: these creepy and somewhat goofy voices sure don't sound like your Gramma, let alone the angels or ETs that some proponents embrace as the most likely explanation for the phenomena."

At Play on the Screens of our Lord: Video Games and Spirituality
"We are not talking Homer here, or even Beowulf. Taken in toto, the virtual world of gaming resembles some savage disembodied theme park infested by deer hunters, F-16s, and kick-boxing Japanese school girls. And yet the fact remains: the world of computer games is saturated with occult, mythological, and even spiritual themes."

Divine Intervention: An Interview with Perl creator Larry Wall
"He has quoted scripture before crowds of hackers. He glides from notions of devotion and divinity to the nuts and bolts of evolutionary programming. And his progeny is just about everywhere on the Web."

The Religion of Technology
A review of David Noble's book. "Noble...wants to dispel a myth that continues to bind us: the myth that modern technology is a purely secular phenomenon."