High Weirdness - Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies - Erik Davis

High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis / ISBN 9781907222870 / A 544-page paperback with flaps, about 5.8 x 8.3 inches, from Strange Attractor Press *** 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 In High Weirdness, Erik Davis—America's leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mys