The plant world is a complicated pharmacopeia. American philosophers and naturalists have long venerated the plant world for its ancient, primordial wisdom.

When we begin to recognize the weird, arguably magical and vitalist dimensions present in New Media, its stranger phenomena begin to make more sense—the funny forms of electronic divination that crop up in the noetic bowels of cyberspace. Memes retrieve the medieval icon as a form of profane illumination. Trolls cozy up in cyberspace. But it all begs the question: where there are icons, are there also gods?

“Between the knower and the known. There lies a distinction by one who Has awakened from the sleep of heedlessness.” — Nasir-i Khusraw