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PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-101907222871

ISBN-139781907222870

eBay Product ID (ePID)22050405786

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Book TitleHigh Weirdness : Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

Number of Pages550 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicEntheogens & Visionary Substances, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Movements / Phenomenology, General

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Philosophy

AuthorErik Davis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight28.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThe book focuses on three people who were, well, highly weird.-- RAWIllumination -- With prose as fluid as his subjects' beliefs regarding consensus reality Erik Davis brilliantly dissects three otherworldly experiences and in doing so makes clear how "a decentralized and postmodern nation--the nation Americans still live within, even more fractiously--became codified." -- Lit Hub -- Davis isn't looking to hack your common sense. Instead, he's asking the reader to question the rigid hierarchies of their perceived realties. -- Happy Mag --

Dewey Decimal200.97309047

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 In High Weirdness , Erik Davis-America's leading scholar of high strangeness-examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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

LC Classification NumberBL65.D7D38 2019