Host Michael Taft speaks with creator and journalist Erik Davis in regards to the energy of partaking within the forbidden and the loss when previously forbidden issues change into normalized, significantly within the case of psychedelics; Tantric and Christian modes of transgression, energy relationships and the guru, hedonism, rule-breaking, the need for having protected religious observe environments, and the position of danger in religious improvement.
Erik Davis is an creator, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and common speaker based mostly in San Francisco. He’s in all probability finest identified for his e book TechGnosis a cult traditional of visionary media research that investigates how our fascination with expertise intersects with the spiritual creativeness. Erik’s most up-to-date e book is Excessive Weirdness: Medication, Esoterica, and Visionary Expertise within the Seventies. Erik can be a long-term practitioner of meditation, significantly within the Zen custom.
Erik Davis’ Substack: The Burning Shore
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