
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In High Weirdness, Erik Davis - America's leading scholar of high strangeness - examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. "It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to the work of philosopher Martin Heidegger." (George Kateb, The New Republic)
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Dark Star Rising
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- De: Gary Lachman
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
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Within the concentric circles of Trump's regime lies an unseen culture of occultists, power-seekers, and mind-magicians whose influence is on the rise. In this unparalleled account, historian Gary Lachman examines the influence of occult and esoteric philosophy on the unexpected rise of the alt-right.
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Step Right This Way!
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God and the Evolving Universe
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In God and the Evolving Universe, James Redfield and Michael Murphy present an important message of hope and a vision for the future. The authors contend that thousands of years of human striving have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded spiritual experience.
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higher is better
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Orientalism
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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We're lucky to have this on audio
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Secular Buddhism
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As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace. Is it possible to recover from the Buddhist teachings a vision of human flourishing that is secular rather than religious without compromising the integrity of the tradition?
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Good, but repetition of old material
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Forbidden Faith
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The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity - truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries AD, but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.
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Excellent start to finish
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There Is a God
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In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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Disappointing
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William Blake vs the World
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A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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Best book ever
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How to Save the West
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It has been proclaimed many times, but perhaps never more convincingly than now, when every news cycle seems to deliver further confirmation of a world gone mad. Is this the endgame? Author Spencer Klavan is a classicist, with a Ph.D. from Oxford, and a deep understanding of the West. His analysis: The situation is dire. But every crisis we face today, we have faced before. And we can surmount each one. Klavan brings to the West’s defense the insights of Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and the Founding Fathers to show that in the wisdom of the past lies hope for the future.
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Spectacular! A must read!
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Jung
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Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society.
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Very nice - will not be disappointed
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The Art of the Novel
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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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Informative and Inspiring
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Want simple answers, look elsewhere
An historical, cultural archaeological exploration, both objective and subjective, linear and non, of the strange inflection point in humanity's existence that is the 1970's. Davis centers 3 out of the eras many most high authors, Terrence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick, in this erudite, academic, and highly entertaining musing of the times. High Weirdness examines how these psychonauts got there, their place inside its landscape, and how they shaped and simultaneously transformed themselves, Davis, and us in the process. If you are looking for simple answers, look elsewhere, as this work weaves and meanders a crazy quilt of ideas, images, people, places, and trends in religion, philosophy, and ultimately consciousness. Get a glancing, vertiginous peek into how the 70s helped shape humanity at the end of the 20th century, and laid (or deconstructed) the cultural foundations that underpin the 21st. Altered states of consciousness not required, but it certainly helps.
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- E SnowLo
- 12-20-21
It's good.
I'm not a writer of well written words but this is a good book and you should get it.
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- darkstar666
- 12-06-21
A Must For All Weirdo Intellectuals
I felt like this book was written for me. Because how many people are out there who like pulp science fiction, comic books and the Merry Pranksters AND Guittari, Foucault and Baudrillard? Thoroughly fascinating and inspiring, and worth it for the bibliography alone! A deeply weird and wonderful book. I listened to the audiobook & Erik Davis does a great job of reading his own work. Then I bought the paperback, so I could review and study the most intriguing parts because, despite its title and subject matter, this is a scholarly study of “deeply weird shit.”
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Психоделический Апостолат
Очередная удивительная книга Дэвиса, которая не хуже той марки расширяет градиент познания. Спасибо чувак!
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- Steven Chanan
- 02-21-25
Fascinating and Frustrating in equal measure
This book is a LOT. Lots of great and fascinating insights, everything analyzed from every possible angle and set within every possible context. But frustrating in several ways as well.
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.
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- 07-27-20
In the beginning was the Weird.
Weirdness is a part of life. In the subjects of this book, we see a willingness to embrace the weird which is encouraging and exciting.
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-29-20
Incredibly informative
Erik Davis did an incredible job with the content and his narration really adds to the overall subject. I enjoyed his Terence McKenna impersonation which was spot on. I would recommend this audio book :)
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- Yoav Tirosh
- 06-03-24
Erik Davis in His Own Words
realy great to be able to hear Davis himself perform the audiobook. Honestly, the freaky voice he chose for McKenna feels even odder when a certain piece of information is ""revealed"" towards the end of the book. Kinda wish he didn't treat the phenomena with so much skepticism; I'd love to read a book-length research on UAs by him, though.
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- MF
- 10-22-20
Phenomenal
Phenomenal book. The sci-fi writers, the occult, the Gnostic, the Logos. This is a great book about the fringe of California from the 70s onward.
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- M.Biblioswine
- 07-28-21
This is a strong book
I got this for the section on PKD. This is my second time to listen to it and it does not disappoint. The one weakness is the author’s performance. Over all it is solid. It is annoying when he attempts to affect a French accent. I don’t know what PKD sounded like, but Davis’s voice when quoting him doesn’t add to the performance. It is too bad, because, otherwise he provides a professional quality reading.
I highly recommend this book.
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