Thinker · 9 recordings · 11 hours

Erik Davis

“Gnosticism and gnosis to say the least are very squirrelly terms when we describe something as Gnostic we can pretty much get away with almost whatever we want to so much so that many scholars who study the most classic the sense of Gnosticism which are the movements of late antiquity surrounding Christianity overlapping with certain apocalyptic Judaic tendencies as…”

Recordings

• 123Reality Liquified44 minTitle of my talk is reality liquefied and what I'm gonna do is sort of sketch out a somewhat dystopian scenario looking at our contemporary moment and then talk about…
• 187Gnosticism and Gnosis3 h 56 minGnosticism and gnosis to say the least are very squirrelly terms when we describe something as Gnostic we can pretty much get away with almost whatever we want to so…
• 188The Revelation of Philip K. Dick1 h 23 minPhilip K. Dick and his religious experience. And so what I thought I'd do since I've been thinking a lot about it is really just kind of riff through a…
• 189Philip K. Dick and H.P. Lovecraft41 minLike to start out talking about a parallel that I think is very interesting and actually goes rather deep the more you think about it that will set up some…
• 190Robert Anton Wilson's Pulp Illuminations51 minI first off how many people have read Robert Anton Wilson yeah there we go easy peasy all right no 101 necessary I first encountered Robert Anton Wilson when I…
• 191The Weirdness of Being25 minThe title of my dissertation which is currently being transformed into a book too slowly is high weirdness and one of the things that I want to do in this…
• 216The Psychedelic Book of the Dead52 minThe first time I smoked DMT and it was over 20 years ago not terribly far from here oh you know my guide left the room and I sat back…
• 230Psychedelics: Between Natural and Supernatural37 minThe dynamic tension that psychedelics bring to the modern world is between the sacred and the secular, or between naturalistic and supernatural explanations, or in a slightly different concept, between…
• 278A Brief History of the Phantasm1 h 37 min

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