Erik Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Profane Illuminations: Robert Anton Wilson’s Hedonic Ascesis
The writer Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) played a significant intellectual role in the American counterculture in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Drawing from a wide range of discourses, as well as his own occultural fictions and personal experiments in “hedonic engineering,” Wilson presented a pluralistic view of reality that combined a pragmatic skepticism with a creative and esoteric embrace of the “meta-programming” possibilities of alter…
Gnostic Psychedelia
Today the clinical return of research into psychedelic medicine has been accompanied by a model of religious experience that stresses the healing effects of unitive, immanent experiences. This paper instead unearths a counter-narrative of psychedelic religiosity: a more suspicious and critical sense of spiritual encounter that I illuminate through the classic gnostic mythology of the archons. In a number of movement texts from the 1960s through t…
The Psychedelic Book of the Dead
In 1964, Timothy Leary and a few colleagues published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual for “tripping” explicitly based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the core of the Tibetan materials lies the concept of the bardo, the “in between” realm of the afterlife. While acknowledging the problematic nature of Leary’s radical appropriation, this essay argues that his application of these materials to the orchestration and regulation of psychedelic…
Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Getting Sited in Cambodia2. The Funeral3. Rice, Water, Hierarchy: The Wild and the Civil4. Building Deathpower and Rituals of Sovereignty5. Binding Mighty Death: The Craft and Authority of the Rag Robe in Cambodian Ritual Technology6. Gifts and Hungry Ghosts7. Eating Leftovers, Rumors, and Witchcraft8. Buddhism Makes BrahmanismNotesKhmer GlossaryWorks CitedIndex
Kinship Beyond Death: Ambiguous Relations and Autonomous Children in Cambodian Buddhism
This article deals with the phenomenon of past-life memory among contemporary Cambodian children, using one exemplary case, of a young girl born with memories of her past existence as her own uncle, who predeceased her by 20 years. In contrast to the liberating power attributed to past-life memory among buddhas and arhats, past-life memory among children is considered frightening and abnormal in Cambodia. Investigating the ways in which families …
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Weaving life out of death: The craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology
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Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium 1 – Edited by Nicola Masciandaro
Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice – By Ian Charles Harris
Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information
Research Article| October 01 1993 Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information Erik Davis Erik Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 585–616. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-4-585 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erik Davis; Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information. South Atlantic Quar…
Of the Night Wind's Telling
Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Getting Sited in Cambodia2. The Funeral3. Rice, Water, Hierarchy: The Wild and the Civil4. Building Deathpower and Rituals of Sovereignty5. Binding Mighty Death: The Craft and Authority of the Rag Robe in Cambodian Ritual Technology6. Gifts and Hungry Ghosts7. Eating Leftovers, Rumors, and Witchcraft8. Buddhism Makes BrahmanismNotesKhmer GlossaryWorks CitedIndex
Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information
Research Article| October 01 1993 Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information Erik Davis Erik Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 585–616. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-4-585 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erik Davis; Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information. South Atlantic Quar…
Of the Night Wind's Telling
Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information
Research Article| October 01 1993 Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information Erik Davis Erik Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 585–616. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-4-585 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erik Davis; Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information. South Atlantic Quar…
Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice – By Ian Charles Harris
Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium 1 – Edited by Nicola Masciandaro
Weaving life out of death: The craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Kinship Beyond Death: Ambiguous Relations and Autonomous Children in Cambodian Buddhism
This article deals with the phenomenon of past-life memory among contemporary Cambodian children, using one exemplary case, of a young girl born with memories of her past existence as her own uncle, who predeceased her by 20 years. In contrast to the liberating power attributed to past-life memory among buddhas and arhats, past-life memory among children is considered frightening and abnormal in Cambodia. Investigating the ways in which families …
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Getting Sited in Cambodia2. The Funeral3. Rice, Water, Hierarchy: The Wild and the Civil4. Building Deathpower and Rituals of Sovereignty5. Binding Mighty Death: The Craft and Authority of the Rag Robe in Cambodian Ritual Technology6. Gifts and Hungry Ghosts7. Eating Leftovers, Rumors, and Witchcraft8. Buddhism Makes BrahmanismNotesKhmer GlossaryWorks CitedIndex
The Psychedelic Book of the Dead
In 1964, Timothy Leary and a few colleagues published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual for “tripping” explicitly based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the core of the Tibetan materials lies the concept of the bardo, the “in between” realm of the afterlife. While acknowledging the problematic nature of Leary’s radical appropriation, this essay argues that his application of these materials to the orchestration and regulation of psychedelic…
Gnostic Psychedelia
Today the clinical return of research into psychedelic medicine has been accompanied by a model of religious experience that stresses the healing effects of unitive, immanent experiences. This paper instead unearths a counter-narrative of psychedelic religiosity: a more suspicious and critical sense of spiritual encounter that I illuminate through the classic gnostic mythology of the archons. In a number of movement texts from the 1960s through t…
Profane Illuminations: Robert Anton Wilson’s Hedonic Ascesis
The writer Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) played a significant intellectual role in the American counterculture in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Drawing from a wide range of discourses, as well as his own occultural fictions and personal experiments in “hedonic engineering,” Wilson presented a pluralistic view of reality that combined a pragmatic skepticism with a creative and esoteric embrace of the “meta-programming” possibilities of alter…
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