Erik Davis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Erik Davis on XErik 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

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Meghan O'GieblynI 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
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Mike JayMy 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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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
David KaiserScore 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
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
Erik DavisArik 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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Little, Big
John CrowleyJohn 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
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Rod DreherThe 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
The Peripheral
William Gibson@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
Air Age Blueprint
K. Allado-McDowellI 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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