High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies [Audiobook] by Erik Davis
English | March 17, 2020 | ASIN: B085HC97WQ | MP3@128 kbps | 20h 57m | 1.13 GB
Narrator: Erik Davis
English | March 17, 2020 | ASIN: B085HC97WQ | MP3@128 kbps | 20h 57m | 1.13 GB
Narrator: Erik Davis
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 reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
In High Weirdness, Erik Davis - America's leading scholar of high strangeness - examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America's West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality.