Paper short abstract:

Interdisciplinarity in the field of esotericism has now found a meeting point between the technological, the spiritual and the chemical to promote a new vision of spirituality and consciousness exploration.

Paper long abstract:

In contrast to the opposition between technological advancement and esoteric traditionalism, this paper will explore not only its reconciliation and consequential transcendence of these aforementioned categories. I will argue how the focus of these fields stems from an extension of the mental faculties whether into higher states of consciousness as interpreted in the spiritual traditions or else in the capacity to extend one’s will or consciousness one’s environment as in the case of robotization and technologization. The latter is not lost also on disciplines such as magical ritual which attempted to control and engineer the material and spiritual world. The advancement brain to machine interface as much as the revaluation of psychedelics, meditation and related mystical traditions has launched a movement which was once imagined only in science fiction. The arts, sciences, humanities and literature all come together reimagining the figure of the shaman, the wise man, the explorer and the magical practitioner. This paper will explore this phenomenon as a pragmatic resolution of existential issues which attempt at a “Conicidentia Oppositorum” of human understanding between the numinous and the mathematical which was not lost on the traditions of old.