Erik Davis | Turning On. Tuning In. Opting Out. | HITW 164

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Erik Davis was born during the Summer of Love within a stone’s throw of San Francisco. He grew up in North County, north of San Diego, and spent a decade on the East Coast, where he studied literature and philosophy at Yale and spent six years in the freelance trenches of Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving to San Francisco, where he currently resides.

He is the author of five books: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s (MIT Press/Strange Attractor Press); Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti, 2010); The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle, 2006), with photographs by Michael Rauner; and the 33 1/3 volume Led Zeppelin IV (Continuum, 2005).

His first and best-known book remains TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Crown, 1998), a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages and most recently republished by North Atlantic Press.He currently writes the Substack publication Burning Shore.

https://techgnosis.com

https://www.burningshore.com

Previous episodes with Erik:

HITW 125 Is GenX Still Relevant? https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-125-erik-is-92906404

On his book High Weirdness https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-high-with-32872409

On psychedelics and spiritual practice https://www.patreon.com/posts/01-12-and-with-34272619

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