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Stan Carey

Fans of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick might enjoy this book, which explores their weird (and weirdly similar) experiences in the early 1970s: the McKenna brothers' La Chorrera experiment, Wilson's Chapel Perilous, and PKD's 2-3-74

Book on a wooden surface. The cover is black, with shades of purple and blue around the central image: a gleaming orange pyramid with a dozen or so UFO-like mushrooms arrayed almost symmetrically behind it. The largest one hovers just over the pyramid and shines a pink light down into it, which forms an eye-like shape. Inside or behind the pyramid is a small or distant mountain range, lit up in red. The title (High Weirdness), subtitle (Drugs, esoterica, and visionary experience in the seventies), and author's name (Erik Davis) are in slim white sans-serif all caps. There's a blurb by Douglas Rushkoff: 'The first book in a very long time that's given me the feeling of discovering a secret truth.'
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Stan Carey

I loved High Weirdness, but fair warning: it's a long, dense, and scholarly work, which began life as a PhD thesis. But Davis has a hip and lively style – if you've read Techgnosis or Nomad Codes, you'll have an idea of what to expect

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Erik Davis on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis, from "High Weirdness"

Philip K. Dick's Exegesis represents high weirdness as a terrain of the sublime—at once an exotic range of mountain peaks, a disorienting abyss, and a trash heap a mile wide. The Exegesis is an anomalous text, challenging to characterize even in the most general terms. Is it a philosophical essay, a research project, an encyclopedic assemblage, a novelist's notepad, a dream diary, a paranoid rant, a crank summa? If we agree that it is all of these and more, can we even speak of it as an "it"—a document, a text? Not for the first time in this chapter, we cannot help but invoke Derrida, who wrote some of his own most potent texts at the same time that Dick was cranking out the Exegesis. In the late seventies, Derrida declared that a text, properly understood, "is no longer a finished corpus of writing, some content enclosed in a book or its margins, but a differential network, a fabric of traces referring endlessly to something other than itself, to other differential traces." Even restricting ourselves to the 895 pages of the abridged 2011 edition of the Exegesis—which represented about a tenth of the extant material—the work remains dizzying, exhausting, and impossible to deal with. It is a "chaos of paperwork" stuffed with oracular voices, cosmic conspiracies, and a mass of sometimes half-digested religious, mythological, philosophical...
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