Erik Davis, 'High Weirdness'

Bad Animal is honored and so, so stoked to be hosting Erik Davis this Sunday from 4 to 6. Eric will be promoting his latest work, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, brought to you by @strangeattractorpress and @mitpress. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale at the event, which is free and open to the public.
From the publisher: "A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and (former Santa Cruz resident) 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 In High Weirdness, Erik Davis—America's leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America's West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality."