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Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and
visions for an inclusive and equitable future. As psychedelics and
psychedelic-assisted therapies explode into the popular
consciousness, what does it mean to cultivate and embody a
psychedelic renaissance that learns from the past and prepares for
the future? From cultural appropriation and sustainability to
diversity, inclusion and venture capitalism, Psychedelic Justice:
Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture examines the
history of psychedelics, celebrates its present moment and
contemplates how advocates and policymakers can shape the future
integration of psychedelics into general society. An anthology of
essays written for the Chacruna Institute and edited by its
co-founders Bia Labate, Ph.d, and Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D, Psychedelic
Justice highlights the need for an inclusionary, societal-level
approach to the psychedelic renaissance. In addition to
psychedelics and drug policy, works in this book examine
psychedelics in the contexts of capitalism, Indigenous traditions,
reciprocity, sustainability, mental health, diversity, sex, power,
and more. A mirror of the vision for a more inclusive psychedelic
future, Psychedelic Justice highlights voices that have been long
marginalized in Western psychedelic culture: women, queer people,
people of color, and Indigenous people. Essay authors include
Labate, Cavnar, Belina Eracho, MPH, Bill Brennan, Ph.D (C), NiCole
T. Buchanan, Ph.D, Erika Dyck, Ph.D, Jeanna Eichenbaum, LCSW, Sean
Lawler, MFA, Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D, ABPP and more. With a focus
on radical cultural transformation as the guiding force behind
visionary social change and the future of psychedelics, Psychedelic
Justice: Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture, is a
guide for a more inclusive and equitable tomorrow.
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one
of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the
magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully
peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and
often mystical roots-and leaves the reader to decide whether [FOUR
SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired,
brilliantly played rock album. Excerpt: Stripping Led Zeppelin's
famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to
let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet. But
the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma. Fans hunted for
hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange
reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the
outside world. This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes
of rock history: an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum.
Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to
anything but itself: a concrete talisman that drew you into its
world, into the frame. All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing
are lame: Led Zeppelin IV, [Untitled], Runes, Zoso, Four Symbols.
In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing
from beyond, charged with manna. And yet this uncanny fetish was
about as easy to buy as a jockstrap.
In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes --
spiritual, cultural, and embodied -- that people use to escape the
limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of the
world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African
trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric lore, postmodern theory
and psychedelic science, as well as festival scenes such as Burning
Man. Whether his subject is collage art or the "magickal realism"
of H. P. Lovecraft, Davis writes with keen yet skeptical sympathy,
intellectual subtlety and wit, and unbridled curiosity. The common
thread running through these pieces is what Davis calls "modern
esoterica," which he describes as a no-man's-land located somewhere
between anthropology and mystical pulp, between the zendo and the
metal club, between cultural criticism and extraordinary
experience. Such an ambiguous and startling landscape demands that
the intrepid adventurer shed any territorial claims and go nomad.
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality
in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton
Wilson. A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the
work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and 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.
This catalogue for a show at HMKV Dortmund explores
techno-shamanism in the arts today, taking Joseph Beuys, who
cultivated the figure of the shaman throughout his career, as the
starting point. In addition to viewing shamanism itself as a
form of technology, this artistic approach uses (speculative)
technology as a way of discovering shamanic powers. Contemporary
artists are updating Beuys’s strategies and themes for the
digital age, deploying many of the same tropes. These acquired
iconic status in Beuys’s oeuvre, and were aimed at healing and
transforming society, cultivating a spiritual approach to the
environment, and subverting power structures and the logic of
capitalism. The positions introduced here combine aspects that
appear diametrically opposed: technology and shamanism, technical
progress and esotericism, rational modernism and the mystical
tradition. Today’s artistic alchemists are engaged in a quest for
“rare-earth elements” and metals, a fusion of the environment,
technology, and artificial intelligence in order to create a
technical/mythological description of the cosmos. Included here are
works by: Morehshin Allahyari, Joseph Beuys, Mariechen Danz, Anja
Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy, Lucile Olympe Haute,
knowbotiq, Sahej Rahal, Tabita Rezaire, Jana Kerima Stolzer &
Lex RĂĽtten, Transformella (aLifveForm fed and cared for by JP
Raether), Suzanne Treister, Anton Vidokle. Text in English and
German.
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Black Hills (MP3 format, CD)
Dan Simmons; Read by Michael McConnohie, Erik Davies
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R1,934
R1,360
Discovery Miles 13 600
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