In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes spiritual, cultural, and embodied that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of the world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric lore, postmodern theory and psychedelic science, as well as festival scenes such as Burning Man. Whether his subject is collage art or the "magickal realism" of H. P. Lovecraft, Davis writes with keen yet skeptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit, and unbridled curiosity. The common thread...
In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes spiritual, cultural, and embodied that people use to escape the limitations of their lives...