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Download or read book High Weirdness written by Erik Davis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? In High Weirdness, Erik Davis—America's leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America's West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality.

Download or read book The Patterns of Paper Monsters written by Emma Rathbone and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Higgins's teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he's indifferent to school and his friends -- though a little less casual about girls and marijuana. His antics have landed him in a North Virginia detention center, where nihilism, freedom, and redemption all take on unexpected guises. In a voice filled with confusion, yearning, and sardonic humor, Jacob narrates his improbably sweet romance with Andrea, an inmate with whom he shares rare glances, melodramatic conversation, and waxy cookies at rigidly chaperoned "socials." But when David, a mysterious, conniving adolescent, handpicks him to assist in a plot to bring about the center's demise, Jacob has to weigh the frail new optimism of his relationship with Andrea against the allure of destruction, rebellion, and escape. In her pitch-perfect debut, Emma Rathbone adroitly captures the drama, both comic and deadly serious, of growing up.

Download or read book Leaving The Fold written by Edward T. Babinski and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting new collection offers testimonies of former fundamentalists who became disillusioned with their churches and left. Presenting more than two dozen personal journeys, this book gives a clear picture of what attracts a person to the fundamentalist faith and what can drive believers away from their religion. Photos throughout.

Download or read book Dangerous Knowledge written by Art Simon and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing work of cultural criticism on the contemporary meaning and influence of images from the JFK assassination.

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Download or read book Beneath the Underground written by Bob Black and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth exploration, from within , of the rapidly growing cultural phenomenon which received its name from the author Bob Black:the marginals milieu.' You could also call it the do-it-yourself subculture. It consists of the perhaps 20,000 self-publishers of micro-circulation 'zines' and other self produced art, music, pamphlets and posters.'

Download or read book Mail Art written by John Held and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography lists nearly 2,200 sources (from 36 countries) of information on mail art from books, magazines, newspapers, and catalog essays between 1955 and 1989.