num_pages: 550
description: 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 realitybut how did their writings reflect as well as shape the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? In High Weirdness  Erik DavisAmerica's leading scholar of high strangenessexamines the published and unpublished writings of these vital iconoclastic thinkers as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences.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.
language: English
title: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
publisher: The MIT Press