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High Weirdness - (Mit Press) by Erik Davis (Paperback)

High Weirdness - (Mit Press) by  Erik Davis (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson.</b><p>A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, <i>High Weirdness</i> 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? </p><p>In <i>High Weirdness</i>, Erik Davis--America's leading scholar of high strangeness--examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The book focuses on three people who were, well, highly weird.--<i>RAWIllumination</i>--<br><p>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."</p>--<i>Lit Hub</i>--<br><p>Davis isn't looking to hack your common sense. Instead, he's asking the reader to question the rigid hierarchies of their perceived realties.</p>--<i>Happy Mag</i>--<br>

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