Tower of Babel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563

The story of the Tower of Babel should be understood as a story about the foolishness of attempting to achieve metaphysical elevation by physical means. 

Transhumanism is another Tower of Babel. Technology cannot grant transcendence.

Becoming superhuman, becoming shaman, demands an arduous demolition of the ego and its fixations. To become spirit, the prospective shaman must first experience death. Only then can he visit the heavens and the underworld. Cyborgs cannot do this.