Host Michael Taft talks with author and journalist Eric Davis about the ban and losses when something banned is normalized, especially for psychedelics. The role of violation, power relations and leading figures, hedonism, rule breaking, desire to have a safe environment of mental practice, and risks in mental development.
Eric Davis is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist and popular San Francisco-based speaker. He is perhaps best known for his book Techgnosis, a visionary media research cult classic that explores how appeal to technology intersects with religious imagination. Erik’s latest book is high and weird. Drugs, Esoterica, a visionary experience of the 70s. Eric is also a long-term practitioner of meditation, especially in the Zen tradition.
Eric Davis’ Subsack: Burning Coast
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