{"id":3433,"date":"2022-03-10T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2022-03-10T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:24:59","slug":"high-weirdness-the-new-psychedelic-worldview-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/high-weirdness-the-new-psychedelic-worldview-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"High Weirdness: the new psychedelic worldview in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3434\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400-131x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400-131x300.jpeg 131w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400-446x1024.jpeg 446w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400-768x1764.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400-669x1536.jpeg 669w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400-624x1433.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/BC5D1AEB-FFF5-45ED-8F07-74C6A1987400.jpeg 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/>High Weirdness (Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies) by Erik Davis explores the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the works of PKD, Terence McKenna, and Robert Antin Wilson. I\u2019m super psyched to read this!! Davis navigates readers through consciousness, the hierarchies of their perceived realities, synchronicity, and a plethora of other weird aspects of our human experience that is suggested by these major counterculture sf writers. \u00a0Magic mushrooms, flying saucers, the invisible trickster entities of the 70s, SF, what more could you want? (the attached photo has popular modernSF novels)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Weirdness (Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies) by Erik Davis explores the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the works of PKD, Terence McKenna, and Robert Antin Wilson. I\u2019m super psyched to read this!! Davis navigates readers through consciousness, the hierarchies of their perceived realities, synchronicity, and a plethora of other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}