Erik Davis on High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

High Weirdness is author Erik Davis' most heroic effort yet: a more than 400-page immersion into the lives of Terence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson, figureheads of American weirdness. With these three serving as a psychic trinity to orbit, Davis is free to address the shifts in consciousness that occurred on the American West Coast in the 1970s: "I'm interested in the drift of the counterculture. The post-counterculture zone—that’s the one that really interests m...

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