Erik Davis is an author and independent scholar based in San Francisco. His books include Blotter: the Untold Story of an Acid Medium (2024), High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (2019), and the cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998). Davis's essays on psychedelics, spirituality, music, and technoculture have appeared in scores of books, magazines, and journals, and his writing has been translated into a dozen languages.

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