#erik-davis — Public Fediverse posts

A cosmic alignment of the planets will occur on October 7, which will see the publication of two important new books:

Graham St John's *Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna* https://www.edgecentral.net/terence-mckenna-biography

and the long-awaited new Thomas Pynchon novel, *Shadow Ticket* https://thomaspynchon.com/an-october-surprise-thomas-pynchons-new-novel-shadow-ticket-oct-7-2025/ #TerenceMcKenna #ErikDavis #psychedelic #ThomasPynchon

#ErikDavis: "There is a reason that #esoteric things were esoteric throughout the history of #culture and #religion, and it is that they are not for everybody, at least at the stage most people are, trying to just make a living, trying to keep their families together... because a lot of these esoteric practices and experiences, have a kind of #deconstructing quality, they pull the rug out from under you, they show you a multiplicity world, sometimes god is everywhere, and it is pretty groovy, but it can be, in someways, #unsettling."

@erik_davis & Douglas @Rushkoff on #Psychedelics in society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6jTxEeohI

2024: book sixty-eight (audiobook sixteen). #audiobook #bookstodon #2024books #books2024 #highweirdness #erikdavis

Fans of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick might enjoy this book, which explores their weird (and weirdly similar) experiences in the early 1970s: the McKenna brothers' La Chorrera experiment, Wilson's Chapel Perilous, and PKD's 2-3-74

#books #ErikDavis #PKD #TerenceMcKenna #RobertAntonWilson #weirdness #esoterica #1970s #mysticism