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Tag Archives: Erik Davis
The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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Hybrid Landscapes – From Posthistoric to Posthuman
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Reality Sandwich The collective psyche seems to be in the grip of a powerful archetypal dynamic in which the long-alienated modern mind is breaking through, out of the contractions of its birth process, out of what … Continue reading
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Tagged Animism, Archaic Revival, civilization, Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Erik Davis, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, PKD, Post Humanism, Quantum Physics, spirituality, technology, Transhumanism
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Keeping The Portal Open: Erik Davis on TechGnosis and the Blurring “Real” & “Virtual”
By Michael Garfield Source: Reality Sandwich Erik Davis is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, & Mysticism in the Age of Information (recently reissued by North Atlantic Books with a new afterword). An investigation into how our transcendental urges play out in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, civilization, Consciousness, Dystopia, Economics, Entheogens, environment, Erik Davis, Ethics, Internet, media, Psychedelics, Quantified Self, Science fiction, surveillance state, Techgnosis, technology
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Podcast Roundup
9/7: On Expanding Minds, hosts Maja D’Aoust and Erik Davis have a conversation with Andy Sharp of English Heretic about death, Horror films, Hiroshima, psychogeography, and his latest release, The Underworld Service. http://s50.podbean.com/pb/fd840a4721e38d3f25dd4ec01834d2c6/541340f7/data2/blogs18/276613/uploads/ExpandingMind_090714.mp3 9/8: R.U. Sirius joins hosts Chris … Continue reading →