Table of Contents

FOREWORD
What Science and Invention Might Yet Become
JEFFREY J. KRIPAL

Prologue

INTRODUCTION
The Call to Remember

1 Origins of the Mechanical-Man

2 Accepting the Challenge--The Departure

3 The Sorcerer and the Wizard

4 Knowing Thyself--The Initiation

5 The Great Mother

6 The Prophet

7 The Final Odyssey--The Return

8 The Trickster

9 The Cave

10 The Fourth Dimension Is Calling Us

11 The Savior

CONCLUSION
The First and Final Boon: Human Imagination

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Luke Lafitte, J.D., Ph.D., is a trial attorney, American history teacher, and co-founder of Dead White Zombies, an award-winning theater group in Dallas, Texas. Partner in a leading law firm in Dallas, he is the author of the three-volume series Chronicles of a Curious Mind.

Reviews

"The ambition of Lafitte’s Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm is massive, provocative, and essential. It is a book that traces the emergence of the American character and mythos reflected in the form of the ever-evolving mechanical man. From the steam engine and the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz to the Darth Vader and the Matrix, the book is a whirlwind blending of scholarship and pop culture portraying a vortex of ideas, influences, and expressions that portend an epochal shift in how we live, perceive reality, spirituality, and self. We are immersed in a wide array of challenges, complexity, and opportunities, and Lafitte is our navigator."
*Thomas Riccio, former Creative Director at Hanson Robotics and Professor at University of Texas at D*

“Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm is a tour de force of mythological thinking on a reimagined hero’s journey. A brilliant insight into the potential of humanity and new mythic directions toward the ever-changing frontiers of discovery, innovation, and actualization.”
*Judd H. Burton, Ph.D., director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology*