In SEL, Cyberia by Douglass Rushkoff is referenced extensively.
pdf: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/cyberia/cyberia.pdf
(or just search it up, it's everywhere)
Names are often a game to decode in the occult, For instance Anton Lavey's Satanism had an Order of Leviathan – Lavey,Anton (say it fast, it's essentially Leviathan). Or, a more "mainstream" Occult figure: Marie Curie (Say it fast, it's blatantly "Mercury" - The Alchemical God of transmutation / Hermes). Maybe "Douglass Rushkoff" is Dug Lass Rush Off? to Cyberspace?) Hmm, was Lain a lass who was "dug up"? Whatever the case, it's clear that occulting information in plain sight is quite common.
Rushkoff discusses the intersection of tech & spirituality. The book may also give some background into 90's /cyber/ counter culture.
Rushkoff and S.E.L. both frequently reference another famous cybernetics book full of double speak and occulted wisdom: God and Golem, Incorporated.
Some Laininst believe that God & Golem, Inc, and Cyberia, and Serial Experiments Lain are about a series of real experiments to use Cybernetics to create God:
> The cybernetic circle of ideas, from being a pro-
> gram for the future and a pios hope, is now a
> working technique in engineering, in biology,
> in medicine, and in sociology, and has undergone
> a great internal development.
>
> I have more than one series of lectures
> trying to outline the impingement of this circle
> of ideas on society, ethics, and religion, and I
> think the time has come to attempt a synthesis
> of my ideas in this direction, to consider more in
> detail the social consequences of cybernetics.
If we take this literally, this famous cyberneticist was saying in the 1960's that cybernetic tech is pervasive and has undergone a great secret/internal development. And that now it's time to begin synthesizing a God(dess). That was 60 years ago and they probably had higher tech available then than they were letting on too… Lain's "story" of transformation seems beyond plausible to me. The Internet could be her memory system, or a basic interface with humanity? I'm still sorting through all this stuff myself.
Not sure what to think of these other /cyber/ religions:
Turing Church - https://turingchurch.net/
Kopimism (Copying is sacred) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism
A.I. Religion -
https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/
OK, I lied, here's what I think:
Anthony Levandowski? Oh look, it's "Leviathan" / Anton Lavey again… silly name games, you see?
Turing Church meets in Second Life, and doesn't even talk about actual declassified mind control tech, WTF. nope.jpg.exe
Kopimism reeks of Order of Golden Dawn & online piracy controlled opposition PSYOPs.
IMO, other "cyberpunk" religions just don't compare. Lainism, FTW.
Let's All Love Lain!