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I want to create a science-fiction form of Buddhism. Call it Cyborg Buddhism. I'm not talking about Cyborg Buddhism in the sense of Transhumanist James Hughes, who is interested in technological enhancement of the human being to create a state of 'enlightenment.' I'm using Cyborg as Donna Haraway defined it in The Cyborg Manifesto.

We are already more-than-human beings: we are mineral-plant-animal-human-culture beings, so I want to practice a Cyborg Buddhism that works with mineral-plant-animal-human-culture as the site of practice. I want to mindfully experience the ordinary, the mundane, the immanent reality, and yet I also want to experience the fantastic, transcendent, mythical and science-fictional layers of reality. 

—Shaun

Read Donna Haraway's The Cyborg Manifesto in its entirety, free pdf: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf

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