About this episode
Today we meet Erik Davis, award-winning journalist and author, most recently, of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies.
Erik guides us in an imagination-based open awareness practice that for him is about cultivating a very specific kind of watchful attention. This turns out to be the perfect setup to discuss one of Erik’s specialities: the defiantly unclassifiable weirdness of psychedelic experience.
We explore the ins and outs of the current psychedelic revival, the heretical nature of psychedelics as “practice,” even the possibility of the Buddha himself being a psychonaut. Can we scale-up psychedelic use for the mainstream? Do we even want to? And down we go, into a highly entertaining rabbit hole.
Erik’s immersive 16 minute practice begins at 8:36 and ends at 24:20.
Links:
• Erik’s website: https://techgnosis.com
• Erik’s substack
• High Weirdness Book
• Psychedelic Sangha: https://psychedelicsangha.org
• Erik’s Guided Psychedelic Meditation Music Album Experience
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