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# Virtual reality shamanism is real, totally nuts
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/virtual-reality-shamanism-real-totally-nuts/
- Published: 2014-06-13T20:11:51.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:51:29.000Z
- Description: God in the machine
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, drugs, Religion, Virtual Reality, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Have you ever thought to yourself, or aloud, “What would a religion based on virtual reality be like?” No? It’s just me and this guy, then.

Michael Allison has constructed a religious rite around the virtual headset—a religious rite that involves having an oscillating fan blown in your face and chanting “I am become bit” \[sic\], no less. Know as *Ecstatic Computation*, this cybernetic baptism may sound a bit batshit, but the creator’s intent is to trigger a state of ecstasy, which is, according to his definition, a feeling of being outside yourself. Everything you see in the video is supposably based on research of shamanistic rituals, such as those that enlist “ritual drumming and chanting … meditating and… the aid of entheogenic substances like ayahuasca,” to quote [Allison’s blog](http://michaelpallison.com/projects/ecstaticcomputation/?ref=killscreen.com).

Click play and behold the birth of technoshamanism.