Host Michael Taft speaks with creator and journalist Erik Davis concerning the energy of partaking within the forbidden and the loss when previously forbidden issues develop 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 secure religious follow environments, and the function of threat 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 recognized for his e book TechGnosis a cult traditional of visionary media research that investigates how our fascination with know-how intersects with the non secular creativeness. Erik’s most up-to-date e book is Excessive Weirdness: Medicine, 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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