Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica

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In these wide-ranging essays, cult author Erik Davis explores the codes - spiritual, cultural and embodied - that people use to escape the limitations 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 kid Terence McKenna or dub maestro Lee Perry, Davis writes with keen yet sceptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit.

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Erik Davis is an astute guide through the heavens and hells where cyber-reality, pop culture, and spiritual impulses arm wrestle each other for dominance. -- Jay Kinney, author of The Masonic Myth and the Inner West

Author Bio

Erik Davis is the author of three other book, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, Led Zeppelin IV, and The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape. He lives in San Francisco.