High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
By: Erik Davis
4.22
Format: 545 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Te…
Want to Read $ 18.99"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo chamber that McLuhan believed formed a new electronic form of “acoustic space."-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo chamber that McLuhan believed formed a new electronic form of “acoustic space."-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"By refusing randomness and unpredictability, conspiracy theories and paranoid reality tunnels reify the hubris of systematic rationality as such. “Maybe all systems—that is, any theoretical, verbal, symbolic, semantic, etc., formulation that attempts to act as an all-encompassing, all-explaining hypothesis of what the universe is about—are manifestations of paranoia."-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"By refusing randomness and unpredictability, conspiracy theories and paranoid reality tunnels reify the hubris of systematic rationality as such. “Maybe all systems—that is, any theoretical, verbal, symbolic, semantic, etc., formulation that attempts to act as an all-encompassing, all-explaining hypothesis of what the universe is about—are manifestations of paranoia."-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
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4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
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3.51
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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By: Nicholson Baker
4.35
Format: None pages,
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By: Philip K. Dick
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Format: 220 pages,
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3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
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3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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By: Lon Milo DuQuette
4.07
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3.00
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4.27
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4.15
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17. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
By: Erik Davis
4.22
Format: 545 pages, Hardcover
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3.90
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21. Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences
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4.11
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