crafters-circle/PDF4/article6C.pdf To be or not to be fully human? Where Ancient Wisdom confronts our Modern Age: The sauvage , the Transhuman and our hoped for Archaic Renaissance Paul Wildman & Iona Miller Abstract Today we do our best to live in a world going mad. It’s as if we need to give ourselves a ‘psychic vaccination’, to inoculate ourselves from this madness. This injection protects us on a contemplative or archetypal journey the foreign lands of our unconscious. The shamanic tincture allows us to safely explore the darkness and light of our own depths.Only by going through and making the darkness conscious and conscious darkness do we arrive at the light. Here we explore thepossibility that Transhumanism can be part of this journey. But it is a game-changer, altering the cultural landscape as we go. We conclude that an ‘artificer’ approach allow sanyone to position themselves where they are comfortable in the humanist ↔ transhumanist continuum. An orientation that helps us retain our archaic instinctual root and manual adaptability helps us navigate this unfamiliar territory even as our own future inexorably invades us in ways that radically change our lives and bodies
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