High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press & MIT Press
Year: 2020
Format: Softcover
Edition: First
Condition: New
A study of the spiritual provocations found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic worldview out of the American counterculture of the seventies. These three visionaries changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality—but how did their own writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America during one of its most surreal eras?