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I haven't written much lately. I've been reallky busy with work and manically trying to read all these books that I really want to read before school starts again.

Speaking of good books, I finished Techgnosis a few days ago. It was really good. Erik Davis very clearly is a highly intelligent man who has spent much time studying and thinking about how technology and cyber culture fits into the framework of mystical/philosophical thought as it has existed for many years. It was refreshing to hear a balanced viewpoint of technology and how it affects human life. He wasn't saying that technology will lead to deliverance, but he also wasn't saying that it is a destructive force by its very nature. he obviously had his biases, as we all do, but I think he stayed as objective as one can hope to be. Or maybe I just agreed with him. Regardless, i recommend it to anyone who would be interested a book about technology and mysticism.

I've also been reading a collection of essays and poetry and fiction and speeches from the sixties. It's really compelling to read what was being wirtten at the time and get a sense of how confused and emotionally wrought a lot of people were. Especially since that decade has affected so much of our lives, and there is a bit of backlash against it, it's nice to read what people were actually saying instead of only getting seond hand points of view.