Erik Davis on Nature and Imagination
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Excerpt from an Erik Davis talk at Palenque Norte, Black Rock City, August 07. www.techgnosis.com
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Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.
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Burning Man
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California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Erik Davis, RHP
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- Published: 27 Apr 2011
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This is a clip of Erik Davis, the right-handed pitcher acquired by the Washington Nationals in the trade that sent infielder Alberto Gonzalez to the San Diego Padres. Here on March 24 in Peoria, Ariz., Davis induces two groundball outs in at-bats against Padres minor leaguers Jeudy Valdez and Eddy Rodriguez. Davis is currently pitching for Double-A Harrisburg. He was selected by the Padres in the 13th round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft out of Stanford.
The DMT Meme with Erik Davis
Erik Davis and KMO discuss how the Dmt meme has grown to be misunderstood by some of today's psychedelic commentators, aswell as new world order enthusiast Alex Jones. Provided by: c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com
Erik Davis: Writer
Bring the movie & live Q&A to your town: is.gd thespiritmolecule.com TheSpirit Molecule explores the enigmatic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found throughout nature, and considered the most potent psychedelic. In 1995, Dr. Strassman completed the first government-sanctioned, psychedelic research on DMT, with results that may answer humanitys greatest questions.
Bryce Harper vs. Erik Davis.MP4
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Bryce Harper's first professional home run AFL 2010-10-30
Dennis McKenna: Expanding Mind With Erik Davis - 1/4
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Expanding Mind with Erik Davis - Dennis McKenna (08-30-09) - davis.progressiveradionetwork.org This week's guest is Dennis McKenna, ethnobotanist, expert in the pharmacology of ayahuasca and other visionary plants, and brother of legendary mushroom bard Terence McKenna.
"Making Love" Film Premiere
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facebook.com Aaron Levine & Erik Davis "Making Love" Film Premiere Event video by "davidjr.com"
Dennis McKenna: Expanding Mind With Erik Davis - 2/4
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Expanding Mind with Erik Davis - Dennis McKenna (08-30-09) - davis.progressiveradionetwork.org This week's guest is Dennis McKenna, ethnobotanist, expert in the pharmacology of ayahuasca and other visionary plants, and brother of legendary mushroom bard Terence McKenna.
Dennis McKenna: Expanding Mind With Erik Davis - 3/4
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Expanding Mind with Erik Davis - Dennis McKenna (08-30-09) - davis.progressiveradionetwork.org This week's guest is Dennis McKenna, ethnobotanist, expert in the pharmacology of ayahuasca and other visionary plants, and brother of legendary mushroom bard Terence McKenna.
Ryeka Sport GoPro Sales Highlight Demo
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- Published: 30 Jun 2011
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Erik Davis from Ryeka Sport highlights key sales features of the GoPro camera and various accessories.
Terence McKenna - Animation and Reality and Psychedelics
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- Published: 29 Dec 2010
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Excerpt from 1999 discussion between Erik Davis and Terence McKenna. animation, psychedelic trips, Walt Disney, sharing your thoughts and dreams, Asparagus, Sally Cruikshank, Quasi at the Quackadero, DMT, Max Fleischer, Gulliver's Travels, Robert Crumb etc.
Terence McKenna - Humanity's Evolution Into Hyperspace
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Based on two segments of audio and video that feature the creative and visionary ideas of Terence McKenna. The first clip is taken from Erik Davis' interview with Terence from 1999 - including video from Dean Jefferys' documentary Shamans of the Amazon - and the second is from the 1987 Angels Aliens & Archetypes Symposium. Features "real" UFO footage and media segments and several clips from popular movies and TV shows. The best segments come from Mitch Schultz's documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule and the Time Wave Zero DVD by Sound Photosynthesis. Related links: Psychedelic Adventures at the Edge of the Abyss: The Ideas of Terence and Dennis McKenna : evolverintensives.com Erik Davis website: www.techgnosis.com Shamans of the Amazon DVD www.shamansoftheamazon.com Sound Photosynthesis website: photosynthesis.com DMT The Spirit Molecule documentary: www.thespiritmolecule.com International UFO Congress: ufocongress.com The Disclosure Project: disclosureproject.org
Terence McKenna: The Lost Interview, November 1999
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Terence McKenna's Last Trip The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and revelatory rap. He had less time than he knew. By Erik Davis In May 1999, the psychedelic bard Terence McKenna returned to his jungle hideaway on Hawaii's Big Island after six weeks on the road. He was relieved to be home. Since claiming the mantle of Tripster King from Timothy Leary, McKenna has earned his keep as a stand-up shaman on the lecture circuit, regaling groups of psychonauts, seekers, and boho intellectuals with tales involving mushrooms, machine consciousness, and the approaching end of history. Weird stuff, and wonderfully told. But the teller was getting tired of the routine. A recluse at heart, McKenna wanted nothing more than to surf the Web, read, polish up some manuscripts, and enjoy the mellow pace of Hawaii with his new girlfriend, Christy Silness, a kind young woman he had met the year before at an ethnobotanical conference in the Yucatán. Soon after McKenna arrived home, however, he was hit with ferocious headaches. He'd long suffered from migraines, but nothing in his 52 years could match the ice picks now skewering his skull. On May 22, after dragging himself to the john to vomit, McKenna's mind exploded. Hallucinations cut in like shards of glass; taste and smell were bent out of shape; and he was swallowed up by a labyrinth that, as he later put it, "somehow partook of last week's dreams, next week's fears <b>...</b>
5 Poems by Jack Spicer
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Jack Spicer (1925 -1965) "Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone any more than we can." -Jack Spicer [1] Jack Spicer was born in Los Angeles on January 30, 1925. Both of his parents were from the Midwest. He met Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser at the University of California at Berkeley. Spicer considered his meeting of Duncan so important he would refer to 1946, the year they met, as his real birth date. [2] As Duncan's, Blaser's and Spicer's work evolved, they referred to themselves as the Berkeley Renaissance which became the San Francisco Renaissance when they moved to San Francisco.[3] Through Duncan, whose parents were theosophists,[4]Spicer became acquainted with the occult. [5] In "Voices Carry," Erik Davis writes that Duncan "introduced Spicer to...[an] overtly magic approach to poetry." [6] Spicer would later teach a "Poetry as Magic" workshop. [7] Spicer co-founded the Six Gallery in 1954. [8] At this venue Allen Ginsberg read "Howl" in October 1955 and the Beat movement received wide attention. Spicer, however, was not an advocate of the Beat aesthetic of self expression. [9] Spicer thought the poet was a host who acted as a receiver and was dictated to from "outside" [10] from, as Erik Davis describes, "[a] field of forces that invade rather than inspire." [11] In "Between the Dead and The Living: Jack Spicer's Second Life," Barry Schwabsky says Spicer was "haunted by Jean Cocteau's image of <b>...</b>
Burning Opera LA - Early Rehearsal Footage
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www.BurningOperaLA.com Videography Nathan Fairhurst, Yoni Koenig, Mark Nichols. From the opera HOW TO SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE
Binghamton Mets - June 8, 2011 Highlights
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Tobi Stoner tossed six strong innings and the Binghamton bullpen preserved the lead in a 4-1 B-Mets victory over the Harrisburg Senators at NYSEG Stadium. Stoner worked out the kinks in his third appearance with Binghamton this year. After two rocky starts, the right-hander put forth his best performance of 2011, allowing just one run on four hits and striking out a season-best four. Stoner helped himself out at the plate in third inning. The Maryland native led off the frame with a hard-hit double to the left field gap off Harrisburg starter Erik Davis. A sac bunt pushed Stoner to third and Reese Havens brought him home with a triple to right.
Erik Davis in a dog suit dancing;)
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It was VBS week and Erik was chosen as the Dog Dancer:)
Terence McKenna - The Lost Interview
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The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and revelatory rap. He had less time than he knew. By Erik Davis In May 1999, the psychedelic bard Terence McKenna returned to his jungle hideaway on Hawaii's Big Island after six weeks on the road. He was relieved to be home. Since claiming the mantle of Tripster King from Timothy Leary, McKenna has earned his keep as a stand-up shaman on the lecture circuit, regaling groups of psychonauts, seekers, and boho intellectuals with tales involving mushrooms, machine consciousness, and the approaching end of history. Weird stuff, and wonderfully told. But the teller was getting tired of the routine. A recluse at heart, McKenna wanted nothing more than to surf the Web, read, polish up some manuscripts, and enjoy the mellow pace of Hawaii with his new girlfriend, Christy Silness, a kind young woman he had met the year before at an ethnobotanical conference in the Yucatán. Soon after McKenna arrived home, however, he was hit with ferocious headaches. He'd long suffered from migraines, but nothing in his 52 years could match the ice picks now skewering his skull. On May 22, after dragging himself to the john to vomit, McKenna's mind exploded. Hallucinations cut in like shards of glass; taste and smell were bent out of shape; and he was swallowed up by a labyrinth that, as he later put it, "somehow partook of last week's dreams, next week's fears, and a small restaurant in <b>...</b>
Alan Watts - Think of Nothing
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Philosophies to think about by Alan Watts. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 -- 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be best thought of as a form of psychotherapy, not just a religion. Like Aldous Huxley before him, he explored human consciousness in the essay, "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book, The Joyous Cosmology (1962). Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive with the help of his son, Mark Watts, and many of his <b>...</b>
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Expanding Mind (Dennis McKenna) [FULL]
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Erik Davis
Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American writer, social historian, cultural critic and lecturer.
Gnosticism in modern times
Official site
The Visionary State official site
Visionary Hollywood bus tour
Interview on TechGnosis, 1996, in Signum Online
Interview on TechGnosis, 2000 at The WELL
1999 interview in Fortean Times #129
Interview at Burning Man 2006 by the Viking Youth Power Hour
Datachurch's Library of Erik Davis' Media- click on People>Erik Davis
Is the Internet Good for Writers?
July 2008 Interview with L.A. Record
Erik Davis' blog on Reality Sandwich
He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significant aspects of his work include media criticism and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, technology, and politics.
He is also a noted Philip K. Dick scholar. His most recently published research has focused on the history of utopian movements in California. He is known for his lively writing style in a number of genres and on varied subjects.
Works
His book, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, was released by Harmony Books in the fall of 1998. It has been translated into five languages.Davis' book Led Zeppelin IV is an exploration of the popular fourth album by British rock band Led Zeppelin. The book was released as part of the Continuum Books 33 1/3 series of books, which explores many of the most influential albums.
In 2006, the book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape was published by Chronicle Books. A collaboration between Davis and photographer Michael Rauner, it explores the peculiar attraction California holds for seekers of all kinds.
Erik Davis' essays have appeared in Wired Magazine, Feed, and over half a dozen books. He is a regular participant and speaker at the annual Burning Man Festival.
Davis recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.
Bio
Davis grew up in the milieu of Southern California during the heyday and simultaneous decline of the 70's "lifestyle" revolution in North American culture of which his native state was considered the center. His early interest in philosophy led him to both study the history of philosophy and the folk contemporary "religions" and spiritual movements of his native state. His first critical and scholarly work of note began as a thesis on Philip K. Dick which he completed at Yale.Davis became an independent scholar, author, lecturer, and freelance intellectual in the 80's and 90's.
His distinctive work continues to focus on the history of both material culture and the imaginative investment and subjectivity that haunts it.
See also
External links
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