High Weirdness
Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
Seiten
2019
Strange Attractor Press (Verlag)
978-1-907222-87-0 (ISBN)
Strange Attractor Press (Verlag)
978-1-907222-87-0 (ISBN)
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In High Weirdness, Erik Davis-America's leading scholar of high strangeness-examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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.
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In High Weirdness, Erik Davis-America's leading scholar of high strangeness-examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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.
Erik Davis is an American journalist, critic, podcaster, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information, The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica.
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.09.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | The MIT Press |
Zusatzinfo | 23 b&w illus.; 46 Illustrations, unspecified |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-907222-87-1 / 1907222871 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-907222-87-0 / 9781907222870 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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