@book {245, title = {The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Virago}, organization = {Virago}, address = {London}, abstract = {Cyberspace may seem an unlikely gateway for the soul. But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this "marvelously provocative" (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has become a metaphysical escape-hatch from a materialism that many people find increasingly dissatisfying. Cyberspace opens up a collective space beyond the laws of physics-a space where mind rather than matter reigns. This strange refuge returns us to an almost medieval dualism between a physical space of body and an immaterial space of mind and psyche.}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=H7nH08cGvbcC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false}, author = {Wertheim, Maragret} }