http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://techgnosis.com/ psychedelic futurism av@phong.com (Anson // Phong) Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:17:17 MDT http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-29-1451-0.txt Fri, 29 May 2009 02:51:00 MDT I have written a number of essays for anthologies published by academic presses, who can be pretty clueless when it comes to promoting or even understanding their books beyond the narrow (and... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-28-1347-0.txt Thu, 28 May 2009 01:47:00 MDT An evocative email from my lovely wife Jennifer Dumpert, just landed in Tokyo:Under criss-crossing overhead subway lines, old Japanese men in black velvet read fortunes at rickety tables by... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-24-1233-0.txt Sun, 24 May 2009 12:33:00 MDT Friday night brought me the unmitigated delight of catching the first stop on Sir Richard Bishop’s current tour, which is supporting his album The Freak of Araby, an album of Middle Eastern... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-23-1101-0.txt Sat, 23 May 2009 11:01:00 MDT The current June issue of The Wire, with a magisterial looking Ornette Coleman on the cover, features an article I wrote in their "Epiphany" series on the mind-blowing experience of hearing... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-17-1057-0.txt Sun, 17 May 2009 10:57:00 MDT I don't listen to straight-up electronic music much anymore, but I'll listen to anything that my pal Evan Bartholemew cooks up. He’s worked on minimal techno, dub, deep ambient, and modern... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-14-1843-0.txt Thu, 14 May 2009 06:43:00 MDT A Scottish singer-songwriter with a number of spare and lovely folk albums under his belt, Alasdair Roberts goes for the prophetic gusto on his new one, the powerfully strange and visionary Spoils... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-07-2008-0.txt Thu, 7 May 2009 08:08:00 MDT A reader of  The Visionary State wrote to me recently to thank me for writing my book. Alex is a Texan and has always hated California, but was vacationing in Joshua Tree in a place that had a... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-04-1349-0.txt Mon, 4 May 2009 01:49:00 MDT An interview about PKD that spills into broader concerns with consciousness, magick, Techgnosis, and the fate of tradition. <<>>   ! Subscribe to Erik Davis' Techgnosis by Email http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-03-1856-0.txt Sun, 3 May 2009 06:56:00 MDT A friend of mine, a poet and novelist and a bit of a hermit, recently decided to ditch his home Internet service. He still surfs at work, where he follows news and opera stuff, and hunts down movies... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-04-21-1840-0.txt Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:40:00 MDT I have given many talks on the history of California spirituality based on my book The Visionary State. Probably the best was the following lecture, which I gave on March 15 at the Philosophical... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-04-02-0921-0.txt Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:21:00 MST Abrams has just released Mushroom Magick, a marvelous field guide to Psilocybe and other hallucinogenic fungi, illustrated by Arik Roper, one of my favorite trippy young illustrator artist types... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-03-27-1553-0.txt Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:53:00 MST J.P. Harpignies is one of my favorite people. I met him in New York in the early 90s when he invited me to come give a talk on Philip K. Dick at the New York Open Center, where he worked on making... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-03-19-2150-0.txt Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:50:00 MST I had a fine time in LA this week. In addition to an excellent meal at the Elf Café and a delicious afternoon in Huntington Gardens, my talk at the Philosophical Research Society was the best... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-03-13-1729-0.txt Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:29:00 MST Probably the first rocker to embrace South Asian sounds in public was George Harrison, who discovered the sitar on the set of Help!, added the instrument’s resonant timbres to “Norwegian... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-03-04-1749-0.txt Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:49:00 MST This morning, as I sat on my zafu for a half hour of still and incensed spacetime, I felt a rush of radiance infuse my being, as if my mind had just turned the corner into a momentary clearing of the... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-02-19-1849-0.txt Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:49:00 MST Last weekend, J and I spent a marvelously rainy few days visiting Pantheacon, a large pagan/magick gathering held every February in an ancient, moss-encrusted tower keep in San Jose called the...