
High Weirdness
Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
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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 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In High Weirdness, Erik Davis - America's leading scholar of high strangeness - examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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.
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A Must For All Weirdo Intellectuals
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Here are the two main areas of frustration:
1) The primary aim of the book is to analyze three famous mystical experiences from the 70s—the McKenna Brothers’ “Experiment at La Chorrera,” Robert Anton Wilson’s “Chapel Perilous,” and Phillips K. Dick’s “2/3/74.” And yet, Davis never clearly explains what these experiences were! Instead of giving coherent overviews at the beginning, then analyzing, he sprinkles details in with the analysis in such a way that I never got a clear sense of what he was really talking about. (Granted, a “coherent overview” is tricky with material like this, but he at least could have tried.)
2) Too much jargon. I’m not a scholar, but I’ve read a decent amount of philosophy, psychedelic literature, and the like. I don’t expect to understand everything in a work such as this, and maybe I wasn’t really the target audience. But it sure seemed that there were plenty of places where he could have been clearer.
Even so, I’m glad I read it as it introduced me to a whole lot of ideas and history I didn’t know about and I look forward to exploring further.
Fascinating and Frustrating in equal measure
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Психоделический Апостолат
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We also see a grasping at weirdness, an escape into uncertainty and novelty, and it’s consequences.
Read by Erik Davis, the author, who is a great orator and who is, of course, uniquely qualified to wyrd his own words.
In the beginning was the Weird.
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Incredibly informative
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Erik Davis in His Own Words
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Phenomenal
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I highly recommend this book.
This is a strong book
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