Erik Davis
Author, San Francisco, US
Erik Davis, PhD, is an author, award-winning journalist, sometimes podcaster, and popular speaker based in San Francisco, US. His books include Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti, 2010), High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s (MIT Press/Strange Attractor Press, 2019) and Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium (MIT, 2024).
Written by Erik Davis
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Consciousness and altered states
Acid media
How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD
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Philosophy of mind
Is yoga a religion?
Evangelical Christians in California tried to ban yoga in schools. So where is the line between the body and the soul?
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Film and visual culture
Trickster and tricked
All gurus try to undermine their followers’ egos and expectations, so does it matter if the teacher is a real fraud?
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Consciousness and altered states
Return trip
A new generation of researchers is heading into the weird world of psychedelic drugs. It could change their minds
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