upcarta
  • Sign In
  • Sign Up
  • Explore
  • Search

High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies

  • Book
  • Jun 11, 2019
  • #Spirituality #PsychoactiveDrugs #Philosophy
Erik Davis
@erik_davis
(Author)
www.goodreads.com
See on Goodreads
4.24/5 319 ratings
2 Recommenders
2 Mentions
1 Ask
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 s... Show More

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In High Weirdness, Erik Davis—America's leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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.

(From Goodreads)

Show Less

Number of Pages: 550

ISBN: 1907222766

ISBN-13: 9781907222764

Recommend
Post
Save
Complete
Collect
Mentions
See All
mr. snodgrass @snodgrassSr · Dec 26, 2022
  • Answered to What is the most psychoactive book you know (any genre)?
  • From Twitter
danielmingram @danielmingram · Dec 26, 2022
  • Answered to What is the most psychoactive book you know (any genre)?
  • From Twitter
Asks
See All
  • Sasha Chapin
    • Ask
    What is the most psychoactive book you know (any genre)?
    63 answers
  • upcarta ©2025
  • Home
  • About
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • @upcarta