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An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson.
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced realityâbut how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
In High Weirdness, Erik DavisâAmerica's leading scholar of high strangenessâexamines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as...>>
"In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codesâspiritual, cultural, and embodiedâthat people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric lore, postmodern theory and psychedelic science, as well as festival scenes such as Burning Man (of which Davis is the best-known chronicler). Articles on media technology further explore themes Davis took up in his acclaimed book Techgnosis, while his profiles of West Coast poets, musicians, and mystics extend the California terrain he previously mapped in The Visionary State.
Whether his subject is collage art or the âmagickal realismâ of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft,...>>
