Techgnosis reveals the inextricable link between technology and spirituality. That information systems mediate the experience of reality by determining how we think about the world. It describes a direct relationship between the tools we use to process information and the capacity to access the esoteric.

Techgnosis shows how the various stages in the development of these technologies determines how reality is experienced by the cultres of the time.

Erik Davis follows in the footsteps of Marshall McLuhan, who had been profundly iinfluenced by Teilhard de Chardin. Teilhard de Chardin proposed the notion of a noosphere and a state of allatonceness. These notions are being realised in the information systems available to us today.