Episode Details

Are there literally ghosts in our machines? Discover the bizarre, 150-year history of "Haunted Media" and the occult roots of modern telecommunications. Guest host Urban dives deep into the spiritual implications of our screens on this episode of Cause Before Symptom.

View the Full Substack Post: https://theofficialurban.substack.com/p/trapped-in-a-simulation

In this deep dive, we explore Jeffrey Sconce's book Haunted Media to understand how society treats electronic presence as something sentient and alive. We unpack the chilling "trinity of electronic presence" (electricity, information, and consciousness), the historical connection between Samuel Morse's telegraph and the Spiritualist movement, and why the CCRU described cyberspace as "The Crypt". We also analyze Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and explore how the modern legal "strawman" mirrors ancient Mesopotamian concepts of ghosts trapped in a sub-zero existence. Is the internet an extension of human consciousness, or an algorithmic Leviathan consuming our reality?

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Haunted Media by Jeffrey Sconce: https://docs.urbanodyssey.xyz/reading/haunted-media.html 

• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander https://odysee.com/@UrbanOdyssey:b/Four-Arguments-for-the-Elimination-of-Television:c 

• Truthstream Media's Documentary on the Technology Bubble https://youtu.be/_5drUoScVS4?si=Gb35NBECA38TDb9i 

• James Carner's "Breath Wars" Books: https://jamescarner.com