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Neuromancy : It’s a kind of Magic
Mind Magic and Reality — Playing with ideas.
The term ‘Neuromancy’ was coined by William Gibson in 1984 in his novel – Neuromancer. Since then the title Neuromancer, one would assume that that is one who practices necromancy, has been applied to science and IT blogs as well as to characters or skills in role-playing games and even a rock music band.
I was revisiting some of my more ‘mystical ‘ diaries over the last few weeks – those which relate directly to my interest in transpersonal psychologies and re-discovered some terms that I had been exploring several years ago. The terms Techno-Mage, Cyber-Mage, Psychomancer and Neuromancer featured.
Every word we utter is a construct representing some element of what we seek to understand. It’s interesting to consider that the words which appear in the public domain can be used for personal reflection and exploration. The more abstract or even ‘woolly’ the word the more fun our conscious and unconscious selves can have with it.
Techno-Mage was a term I heard used to describe a particular group of hi-tech sorcerors, who used magic and technology, in the superb Babylon 5 science fiction series.
As Arthur C Clarke has been quoted as saying: –
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is…
