--- product_id: 165998676 title: "High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Paperback – November 5, 2019" brand: "erik davis" price: "VT1792" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/165998676-high-weirdness-drugs-esoterica-and-visionary-experience-in-the-seventies store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Paperback – November 5, 2019 **Brand:** erik davis **Price:** VT1792 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Paperback – November 5, 2019 by erik davis - **How much does it cost?** VT1792 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/165998676-high-weirdness-drugs-esoterica-and-visionary-experience-in-the-seventies) ## Best For - erik davis enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted erik davis brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Paperback – November 5, 2019 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71k332kr5TL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a very long-lasting contact high for the stoned intelligentsia *by R***N on August 24, 2019* This is jaw-dropping scholarship, eminently readable despite a healthy dollop of some French post-structuralist theory (which Davis makes more lucid) that, more than any book I've ever seen - and will probably ever see - makes the case for re-aligning our ideas about how to think about the "mundane" and how totally weird our existence is, right where you are sitting now.A prominent "skeptic" once titled his book How To Think About Weird Things, but he was wrong: High Weirdness is how you think about the weird.In Berger and Luckmann's classic sociology of knowledge text, The Social Construction of Reality, they make the point that the sociology of knowledge needed to consider anything "taken as knowledge" if we want to understand not just Others, but ourselves. By reading the entire oeuvres of his weirdo generalist "garage" (Davis's term) intellectuals (which alone must be 150 books, plus massive numbers of ephemera, interviews, archival material, etc), and combining the rigorous scholarship of the PhD thesis, PLUS a desire to engage a much wider reading audience than fellow PhDs, Erik Davis has given...I'll speak just for myself here...an encyclopedia that will lead me down an inexhaustible number of labyrinthine avenues of sheer weirdness. And let's face it: it's gotten pretty damned weird, and will only get even more so.I read every word. Closely. The footnotes are a blast. His reading hypermultidisciplinary reading is astonishing. Davis's own humor lightens the load and his awe at the worlds he's immersed himself in for over 30 years is palpable. He is THE great scholar of occulture, but he also wonders if the world's culture has exacted a heavy price for not paying attention to this stuff; his subject matter has been marginalized by "serious" academics for so long (now they're joining him, as he notes near the end), but is it too late? Davis: "It is as if civilization made a sorcerous pact with petroleum genies, and the debt is now coming due."Read Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick. I hope you already have. Then read Erik Davis, the one person in the world most qualified to flesh out the implications of their works and their exceedingly bizarre experiences in California in the 1970s. How did 1970s weirdness in California affect our entire culture? Read this. Because nothing has ever been the same, and it will only get weirder. For everyone. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Phenomenal fascinating history *by L***Y on June 18, 2024* Erik Davis is a master of the weird. An endless font of insight and strange history in fine quality paperback. Eye-opening and powerful even if you don't care about the 70s or psychedelia. This is important and readable scholarship with profound insights for our present and future. Consciousness is the next frontier, as vast as space, and one which we've only hardly begun to explore. The "hard problems" of that topic are made accessible, profound, thrilling, and culturally relevant in the pages of this brilliant Wyrd opus. Fuel for the road ahead. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Masterful Analysis of the "Peeling the Onion" Enigma *by P***M on March 6, 2025* I enjoyed the entire book, not just the Phillip K. Dick section and the final chapter, but it was those chapters that I found the most helpful to me personally.Phillip K. Dick did the usual comparativist helical dissection, and attempted to do the reconstructivephase, the reification of the disparate elements, but didn't actually succeed.He deconstructed 'everything', but couldn't reassemble it, but he did us a huge service, leaving the chunkslying about, for the next generation to continue the work.I consider PKD utterly brilliant, and I consider the author quite comprehending and skilled with theanalysis, though the only minor thing I personally did not like is the usual 'academic, cloying sweet"I know the key words and tricky phrases" overlay a bit much in spots, but then I'm not an academic.I still give the book 5 stars, that should tell you something very positive. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/165998676-high-weirdness-drugs-esoterica-and-visionary-experience-in-the-seventies](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/165998676-high-weirdness-drugs-esoterica-and-visionary-experience-in-the-seventies) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-08*