Urban Shamanism

Urban Shamanism

Urban Shamanism, also known as Digital Shamanism or Psychedelia, is an artistic school of thought born out of the social upheavals of the past four decades, the artistic and technological movements of the 20th century, and the philosophies of various non-western cultures. It parallels and is often associated with Technopaganism. Within art, the Digital Psychedelic process is the fusion of the biological and technological to elicit a mystical experience, self-realizing truth, or moment of profundity.

Komatsu Kiyoko, the founder of a Japanese "new religion" Shinmeiaishinkai, practices a form of shamanism that focuses on business-related oracles which also has been described as "urban shamanism."

References

*"Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth" by Janet Goff. "Japan Quarterly". Tokyo: Jul-Sep 1997.Vol.44, Iss. 3; pg. 105. (Reviewing "Religion in Japan", Cambridge University Press, 1996.)Roberts, T. B. (editor) (2001). "Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion." San Francosco: Council on Spiritual Practices.

Roberts, T. B., and Hruby, P. J. (1995-2002). Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments An Entheogen Chrestomathy. Online archive. [http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy]

Roberts, T. B. "Chemical Input—Religious Output: Entheogens." Chapter 10 in "Where God and Science Meet: Vol. 3: The Psychology of Religious Experience" Robert McNamara (editor)(2006). Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood.


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