Urban shamanism, also known as "digital shamanism" or "digital psychedelia", is a school of thought born out of the convergence of technological change

Technological change

Technological change is a term that is used to describe the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. The term is synonymous with technological development, technological achievement, and technological progress...

s, art movement

Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years...

s, and Eastern philosophies during the late 20th century. It parallels and is often associated with technopaganism

Technopaganism

Technopaganism is an umbrella term that characterizes several different beliefs and practices in Neopaganism in reference to the place of technology in Neopagan practice.- Definitions :...

. In practice, the digital psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

 process is the fusion of the biological and technological to achieve profound self-knowledge.

Komatsu Kiyoko, the founder of a Japanese new religious movement

New religious movement

A new religious movement is a religious community or ethical, spiritual, or philosophical group of modern origin, which has a peripheral place within the dominant religious culture. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may be part of a wider religion, such as Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism, in...

 known as Shinmeiaishinkai

Shinmeiaishinkai

is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Komatsu Kiyoko in 1976. Komatsu was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1928; her mother was the successor to a hereditary line of Shinto priests. In 1976, an acquaintance of Komatsu's made a prophecy that a Shinto kami was about to descend to Earth...

, practices a form of shamanism

Shamanism

Shamanism is an anthropological term referencing a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world. To quote Eliade: "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = technique of ecstasy." Shamanism encompasses the...

that focuses on business-related oracles which also has been described as "urban shamanism".