Erik Davis. Creative Commons photo by Michael Rausner.
An event in Berkeley, California, featuring Erik Davis has been announced, part of it will be online:
"The world is weird, and only getting weirder. In this set of two talks (Wed March 19 and Wed March 26), Alembic co-founder Erik Davis will wrestle with the strangeness in our midst — political meltdown, UAPs, simulation hypthesis, AI oracles, conspiracy theory in the White House, corporate shamanism, jhana-on-demand, media psychosis, and all manner of climate chaos and apocalyptic foreshocks. There is a thread running through all of these: the apparent unraveling of consensus reality, and the mind- and resource-war for the attentional future. Taking and developing concepts and strategies from his classic book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Davis aims to both honestly assess our impossible situation and to identify a few navigational tools for sanity, sense-making, and creative engagement.
"The first hour’s talk will be available for streaming; the group discussion in the second half will be reserved for in-person attendees."
More information and ticket information here.
High Weirdness is an interesting book with three parts, focusing upon Terrence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick. Here is my original review.
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