Erik Davis' new book 'High Weirdness' explores how 3 authors in the 1970s changed the way readers ex

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  • Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
  • The award-winning journalist's book uncovers how works by Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson have shaped cultural shifts in America.

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  • @tonygrowley5275
    @tonygrowley5275 2 роки тому +4

    Three of my favorite and influential authors. I have read some of Eric Davis' work as well.

  • @saulabbott-atchison6660
    @saulabbott-atchison6660 2 роки тому +3

    This book was bloody great

  • @gabedepaul5407
    @gabedepaul5407 3 роки тому +4

    I came across those three guys before I could articulate what they had in common. Can't wait to check this book out!

  • @RickWolfff
    @RickWolfff 2 роки тому +2

    I'm glad to see such a book out, and will pick up a copy soon fnord.

  • @schophi
    @schophi 2 роки тому +2

    This is definitely how I like my Morning TV

  • @thenowchurch6419
    @thenowchurch6419 2 роки тому +4

    Spiritual awakening is personal apocalypse and the current apocalypse is a global spiritual awakening.

    • @Total1Now
      @Total1Now 2 роки тому +1

      Just need to bring a few more Leftists to the party. We can’t let the Trump supporters have ALL the fun

  • @Queenie-the-genie
    @Queenie-the-genie 2 роки тому +1

    It did not start on thecWest Coast - it really took off on the East Coast when Leary and Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)n were experimenting with it at Harvard. Yes, he did move to Laguna Beach later- much later and he was arrested there I hear.

  • @talkingshadow
    @talkingshadow 3 роки тому

    Nice cover

  • @ericrounce8181
    @ericrounce8181 2 роки тому

    Mescalin? In Saskatchewan? I'm in Saskatchewan. Current hook up? PM is almost safe.....

  • @johncoffman1841
    @johncoffman1841 3 роки тому +1

    Weird fiction has been around for yonks...

    • @kevinvasquez5272
      @kevinvasquez5272 2 роки тому +1

      And most of them are gnostic myths of their time. Like Alice in Wonderland and the Matrix

  • @salvitoregachione1237
    @salvitoregachione1237 3 роки тому +2

    “The west coast is where psychedelic culture arise in America “ this is BS. Timothy Leary and Richard Albert worked at Harvard, Leary, Wilson and Boroughs all lived in New York when they first became influential.

    • @LeoTheComm
      @LeoTheComm 3 роки тому +1

      One thing the west coast is good at is stealing other peoples cultural influences and claiming they invented it when in truth they merely sanitized them and made them marketable.

    • @coisamorta
      @coisamorta 3 роки тому

      @@LeoTheComm both shores in some landmass.

    • @SensemakingMartin
      @SensemakingMartin 3 роки тому

      @@LeoTheComm Good Marketing is vital. It's often the most important part of a movement or business

    • @findtheothers
      @findtheothers 2 роки тому +4

      I don’t know if that’s the whole picture. A lot of the experimentation and early LSD therapy in the 50s took place in LA. The other thing is San Francisco and summer of love, etc. New York and Harvard played their parts too. I don’t think we need psychedelic west/east coast beef haha

    • @ericrounce8181
      @ericrounce8181 2 роки тому +1

      You would almost think they did not travel..... How did Richard Alpert arrive in India? You think Tim Leary did not participate in EST with Werner Erhard?