But what if the medium is the message?

In the third grade, we loved The Hobbit so much we wanted to live in it. And after school, screwing around in the arroyos that sliced through our SoCal neighborhood, we did, projecting Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains onto a landscape of sandstone cliffs and chaparral. Today's technoculture mavens -- Las Vegas hotel architects, interactive game designers, virtual reality gearheads -- want to engineer a similar sense of immersion: the peculiar feeling that you have passed from this world into...

Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

In the third grade, we loved The Hobbit so much we wanted to live in it. And after school, screwing around in the arroyos that sliced through our SoCal neighborhood, we did, projecting Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains onto a landscape of sandstone cliffs and chaparral. Today's technoculture mavens -- Las Vegas hotel architects, interactive game designers, virtual reality gearheads -- want to engineer a similar sense of immersion: the peculiar feeling that you have passed from this world into...

“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

In the third grade, we loved The Hobbit so much we wanted to live in it. And after school, screwing around in the arroyos that sliced through our SoCal neighborhood, we did, projecting Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains onto a landscape of sandstone cliffs and chaparral. Today's technoculture mavens -- Las Vegas hotel architects, interactive game designers, virtual reality gearheads -- want to engineer a similar sense of immersion: the peculiar feeling that you have passed from this world into...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

In the third grade, we loved The Hobbit so much we wanted to live in it. And after school, screwing around in the arroyos that sliced through our SoCal neighborhood, we did, projecting Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains onto a landscape of sandstone cliffs and chaparral. Today's technoculture mavens -- Las Vegas hotel architects, interactive game designers, virtual reality gearheads -- want to engineer a similar sense of immersion: the peculiar feeling that you have passed from this world into...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

In the third grade, we loved The Hobbit so much we wanted to live in it. And after school, screwing around in the arroyos that sliced through our SoCal neighborhood, we did, projecting Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains onto a landscape of sandstone cliffs and chaparral. Today's technoculture mavens -- Las Vegas hotel architects, interactive game designers, virtual reality gearheads -- want to engineer a similar sense of immersion: the peculiar feeling that you have passed from this world into...