In these wide-ranging essays, cult author Erik Davis explores the codes - spiritual, cultural and embodied - that people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world, from Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods to Western occult and esoteric lore, media technology and psychedelic science. Covering subjects ranging from transvestite Burmese spirit mediums to Ufology, tripster kind Terence McKenna or dub maestro Lee Perry, Davis writes with keen yet sceptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit.
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By The Asterism
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You will find no better guide to the world's hidden cultural byways than Erik Davis and Nomad Codes contains much of his best writing: flirting with possessed transgender singers in Burma, meditating in snorkelling diving gear in the Nevada desert, trancing out in Goa, exotic-grokin' with the Sun City Girls.
Whether he is Charon, steering us into the chthonic darkness of the occult unconscious, or Ariel, flitting amongst the bejewelled ecstasies of the psychedelic overmind, Davis knows what to look for, where to find it, and how it got there.
Follow the nomad.
Whether he is Charon, steering us into the chthonic darkness of the occult unconscious, or Ariel, flitting amongst the bejewelled ecstasies of the psychedelic overmind, Davis knows what to look for, where to find it, and how it got there.
Follow the nomad.
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An odyssey into the subliminal spaces of human expression
6 Feb 2013
By D.
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Erik Davis is adept at balancing between full immersion and blind belief, experiencing a myriad of different out growths of cult and cultural with an enthusiasm that never endangers his critical eye. A participant observer par excellence, he brings us with on an odyssey into the subliminal spaces of human expression.
It's rare to find a writer whose work serves as a memory of your own experiences and revelations, but Davis is one who you can return to and find he has already been to those fields you thought untouched. He leaves no obvious markers though, as his writing illuminates what he sees rather than seeking to subvert it into strange propaganda or a perverse party line.
Nomad Codes, hash marks tic'd subtly on the trail to lead the traveler on into the the weird world around them, and recommended without hesitation for all those eager to see into the future of our still living past.
It's rare to find a writer whose work serves as a memory of your own experiences and revelations, but Davis is one who you can return to and find he has already been to those fields you thought untouched. He leaves no obvious markers though, as his writing illuminates what he sees rather than seeking to subvert it into strange propaganda or a perverse party line.
Nomad Codes, hash marks tic'd subtly on the trail to lead the traveler on into the the weird world around them, and recommended without hesitation for all those eager to see into the future of our still living past.
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The Marco Polo of Subcultures
27 Jan 2013
By J.P. Harpignies
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Erik Davis' is a completely unique voice. No one explores psycho-spiritual and aesthetic subcultures with such penetrating intelligence, profound empathy, and such zest. He covers a wide range of seemingly disparate individuals, groups, movements and impulses, from Burning Man aficionados to Klingon language enthusiasts to Burmese transvestite spirit mediums to H.P. Lovecraft to Reggae Dub madman/genius Lee Perry, and too many others to enumerate, and he reveals how these at-first-glance totally unrelated, obscure nooks and crannies of global culture, are in fact some of the most fascinating attempts at some sort of transcendence. Following this playfully rigorous participant-observer nomad on his inner and outer travels is a journey well worth taking.
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For Adventurers in Modern Esoterica
25 Jan 2013
By Thomas Lane
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I'm an Erik Davis fan. Have been ever since he was writing for the Village Voice way back when. His essays are always far-out, incisive, very intriguing & stimulating, and superbly written. This is his latest collection: Need I say more? For Burners & related tribes: Erik is the best explicator of the scene, and this collection also contains an essay on the last interview ever held with Terence McKenna, whose mantle Erik has in some ways inherited. However, his interests range far and wide: trance & rave, contemporary spirituality & technology (particularly some of the more poignant examples). For those with literary and artistic inclinations: not only does Erik cover these subjects in depth, but he's got great antennae. You might want to get this book for his recommendations alone...he'll take you down some paths well worth following...although there's so much more to the book than that. What are you waiting for?
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