Predictive Texts: Modern Mysticism and Algorithmic Divination contributes to critical literature on secularism, literary, and digital studies by theorizing algorithmic divination, which is the process of interpreting algorithmic technologies in order to gain insight into one’s life and identity. I argue that new media users “read” the algorithms they are subjected to and create a folk mythology...
As part of the dissertation process, three percussion recitals were given. The work below represents the programming and research related to those dissertation recitals. The different focus of each recital represents the pillars of my career as a contemporary musician, reflecting the dimensions of my musical output and research interests. These include my work as an interpreter of other’s work,...
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) belongs to a class of drugs known as serotonergic psychedelics, which produce profound shifts in consciousness by dramatically altering perception and causing hallucinatory phenomena. In humans, DMT has a rapid onset and the effects, which include feelings of dissociation from external reality, entering into an ‘otherworldly dimension’, and intense internal visual...
This study postulated a relationship between individual differ ences in attention and hypnotic susceptibility.It was proposed that sus tained focusing of attention leads to a de-automatization of perceptual and cognitive structures which may be experienced as an altered state of consciousness.Specifically, it was hypothesized that hypnotic sus ceptibility would be correlated with measures of...