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

High Weirdness: Exploring the Emergence of a New Psychedelic Spirituality by Erik Davis is an in-depth examination of the spiritual provocations found in the works of Philip K.

Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson.

This book delves into their published and unpublished writings, as well as the author's own life-changing mystical experiences, to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for renewed engagement with reality.

With prose as fluid as his subjects' beliefs regarding consensus reality, Davis brilliantly dissects three otherworldly experiences and shows how these thinkers' works reflect and shape the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America during the 1970s.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the intersection of spirituality, psychedelics, and counterculture.