Virtual Adepts Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The Virtual Adepts are a Tradition, or secret magical society, in the role-playing game. They are the newest of the formal Traditions; like their fellow societies, they seek Ascension for themselves and the world at large. Specifically, the Virtual Adepts seek Ascension through the use of computer technology and virtual reality.

Their philosophy is described in the First Edition of the Mage: The Ascension sourcebook:

We represent all to which humanity aspires. No longer will we go the way of all flesh, because after the flesh is dead our souls will live on. Before then, however, we'll rip through the barriers that block us, the locks that keep us out, and the security systems that try to stop us. It's our destiny to know, to sense, to alter, to crash, to steal, and to become one with the Ghost in the Machine, the soul of the computer. We are the future. We will continue to evolve in this way until we become the tools of our Ascension.

The Virtual Adept philosophy resembles the real-world Hacker Manifesto, and the imagery and style of the Adepts was influenced by the cyberpunk movement, including works like Neuromancer and Ghost in the Shell. The Virtual Adepts also have a great deal in common with the "hackers" in the movie trilogy The Matrix. Outside of fiction, many ideas from Transhumanism, including man-machine interface and "Uploading" consciousness into a computer, can be found as tools in the Virtual Adept arsenal.

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