%0 Book %D 1999 %T The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace %A Wertheim, Maragret %X 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. %I Virago %C London %G English %U http://books.google.com/books?id=H7nH08cGvbcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false