Erik Davis

@erik_davis

I write and lecture on consciousness culture from a California perspective: media, religion, subculture, drugs. Substack:

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Joined March 2009
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    Mar 18

    Check out "Burning Shore" by

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    Mar 17

    Really enjoyed the last dharmanaut circle my friend (and drummer of this band) overheard the meditation and enjoyed it too!

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    Mar 14

    My comparative book review of High Weirdness by Erik Davis & High Culture by Christopher Partridge is online! Tl;dr: Since anomalous psychedelic experiences often behave like texts, religious studies should co-develop w/ literary studies.

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  4. Mar 13

    Reminder: Dharmanaut Circle tonight at 6pm PT. Talk, sit, chat. Tonight: identity as a probe of the Mystery.

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    Mar 11
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    For me the interesting question is, how does the discourse embody and forward the mission ... of escorting us to the realization that how things are works us. 🙂🙏🏼🎷

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    Mar 11
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    1. I'm an humble meditator & don't know (heh) from transcendental referents, but Gregory of Nyssa positioned later contemplatives to understand transcendence not as an ontological matter but as an experiential one—he's talking metaphorically of a "love" rather than a "knowledge."

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    Mar 10

    this was, of course, merely an extended edit of his short story masterpiece "Brevity's Rainbow"

    #StochasticPress "Levity's Rainbow" (2021) Novel by Thomas Pynchon 1.1 about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian. https://gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/Levity%27s_Rainbow
    "Levity's Rainbow" (2021) Novel by Thomas Pynchon 1.1 about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian.
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    Mar 10

    reminds me of a line of lyrics from a T. Rex(!) song: 𝐼'𝑚 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑦 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑

    La flamme de la contemplation @ Laura Makabresku
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    Mar 10

    On the Anniversary of Spiritualism, Joscelyn Godwin and I will be discussing the burned-over district—one of the most fascinating stories in all of religious history:

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    Mar 10

    is a long read but even a quarter to half-ass perusal reinforces many of my droogs chats on this shit. I recommend a spin thru (oh and full disclosure, fuck if i bothered to check any refs so ymmv) Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

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  11. Mar 11

    The March Dharmanaut Circle will be taking place this Sunday at 6pm PT. Talk, meditation, conversation. This month we will be diving into identity as an instrument of exploration. Donation.

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    Mar 10

    New issue of Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies Vol. 6, No. 2 (2021) Comparing Foucault: Cultivations of Gnosis and Technologies of the Self

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    Mar 10
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    Our essay features some "Foundational Texts" reccos: - LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann - Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley - How to Change your Mind by - DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman - High Weirdness by

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    Mar 10

    Yes! You can still order weird shit from the govt. Mutants still be happy!!

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  15. Mar 10

    Scarlet Imprint's Peter Grey reads Jack Parsons' powerful if obscure text The Witchcraft. Not your Insta-witchery...

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    Feb 28

    dead freaks: carol latvala has finished scanning late grateful dead archivst dick latvala's 9 dead scrapbooks, 1972-1998, featuring tons of never-seen photos, taper candids, uncirculated news clippings, & other fun.

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    5 Apr 2020

    David the Dreamer: Extraordinary Philosophical 1922 Children's Book Illustrated by Freud's Proto-Trans Niece Named Tom via

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    Mar 8

    There’s no doubt that Foucault and Voegelin differ in philosophic commitments, but this is surely what Foucault meant when he called genealogy a spiritual exercise.

    “Contemplation is historical action in the sense that the overcoming of the historical past in the process of contemplation sets free the resources of the individual contemplating existence so that they will become the determinants of the future.” — Eric Voegelin
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    Mar 8

    Incredible to see her again... after all this time...

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    Behold! The lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest has been found on the floor of the Weddell Sea. After more than two weeks of searching, the project found the ship on Saturday.
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    Mar 7

    The older I get, the more I change and simultaneously, paradoxically, become more myself, the more I see that ’ methodological line from ‘High Weirdness’—“𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔”—is also my spirit motto …

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