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Erik Davis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Erik Davis is a cultural historian, writer and public speaker. I write and lecture on consciousness culture from a California perspective: media, religion, subculture, drugs. Substack: https://t.co/4O4A5yVzTu

8 books
Book Cover for: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, Meghan O'Gieblyn

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn
Erik DavisErik Davis

I just loved it... her reading of Calvinism in American history and particularly in relationship to technology was absolutely brilliant... a great model for the kinds of conversations that we need to be having.

Paperback, 2022

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, Mike Jay

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay
Erik DavisErik Davis

My second book is the new book by Mike Jay, who’s kind of our best drug historian... He just does a marvelous job of showing... how our relationship to psychoactive drugs is really, really at the core of modernity in a way that we don’t often acknowledge...

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Book Cover for: How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, David Kaiser

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

David Kaiser
Erik DavisErik Davis

Score one for the "spooky" Berkeley freaks in the Fundamental Fysiks Group: John Clauser shares the Noble for work proving the reality of nonlocality. If you don't know this great story, read David Noble's book How the Hippies Saved Physics. https://t.co/hici67xX8Y

Paperback, 2012

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Erik Davis

High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

Erik Davis
Erik DavisErik Davis

Arik Roper is the genius behind the genius cover to HIGH WEIRDNESS. I contributed a lil something to this amazing new book, a must-have for visionary art / weird fiction / doom rock fiends.... https://t.co/XHopQ6SXMe

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Book Cover for: Little, Big, John Crowley

Little, Big

John Crowley
Erik DavisErik Davis

John Crowley's Little Big in its glorious new incarnation: watch @neilhimself (whose contributions helped realize this sometimes vexed project) unpack the gorgeous incarnation of literary fantasy that is the new anniversary edition. https://t.co/G59QqDnt4W

Paperback, 2006

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, Rod Dreher

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

Rod Dreher
Erik DavisErik Davis

The Christian conservative Rod Dreher, author of the Benedict Option, argues that DMT entities are demons. Dreher has some wise words to say about Western arrogance, but he should have spoken to psychedelic Christians (including Daimistas, etc) too. https://t.co/Ly2i7cXtdo

Paperback, 2018

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Peripheral, William Gibson

The Peripheral

William Gibson
Erik DavisErik Davis

@dreamflesh It also reminded me a bit of the logic of the "stub" used by William Gibson in The Peripheral.

Paperback, 2015

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Air Age Blueprint, K. Allado-McDowell

Air Age Blueprint

K. Allado-McDowell
Erik DavisErik Davis

I had a great time talking AI, shamanism, and writing with K Allado McDowell, author of the new AIR AGE BLUEPRINT. Our convo at the @BerkeleyAlembic is part of @IgnotaBooks ' latest Full Moon Journal. https://t.co/qDdYfrwcVS

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