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Daimon and Pharmakon contains thirteen cutting-edge essays on the contribution of psychoactive substances to occult and esoteric spiritual traditions.
About the Author
Davis, Erik: - Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar. He is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, Visionary States, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. Davis contributes to scores of magazines, and his essays have been included in over a dozen books. He won a Maggie award for his San Francisco Magazine profile of the Internet entrepreneur and UFO contactee Joe Firmage, while The New Yorker has recognized his expertise in the works of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.Kleckner, John: - John Kleckner is an American artist living in Berlin, Germany. His artwork is featured in several prominent public & private collections including the Judith Rothschild Foundation Drawings Collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Magasin 3 Konsthalle in Stockholm, the Deste Foundation / Dakis Joannou Collection in Athens, and the Charles Saatchi Collection in London. Kleckner's drawings and collages have been exhibited internationally at museums and institutions such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains (CAPC) in Bordeaux, and the 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece.Schulke, Daniel A.: - DANIEL A. SCHULKE is the author of a number of books on occult philosophy and esoteric herbalism, including Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft and the Poison Path. He is the co-editor of the journal Clavis: Occult Arts, Letters and Experience, and the general editor of the Western Esotericism in Context series for Three Hands Press.
Featuring prominent authors in the fields of entheogens and new religious movements, it will be of interest to students of the Occult, Comparative Religion, Psychedelia, Noetic Sciences, Altered States of Consciousness. The articles examine the role of chemically-altered consciousness in spirituality, particularly in traditions of magic and occult philosophy such as witchcraft, ceremonial magic, and syncretic religion. Sections on history, theory, practice, and specific entheogenic agents are examined.
About the Author
Davis, Erik: - Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar. He is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, Visionary States, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. Davis contributes to scores of magazines, and his essays have been included in over a dozen books. He won a Maggie award for his San Francisco Magazine profile of the Internet entrepreneur and UFO contactee Joe Firmage, while The New Yorker has recognized his expertise in the works of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.Kleckner, John: - John Kleckner is an American artist living in Berlin, Germany. His artwork is featured in several prominent public & private collections including the Judith Rothschild Foundation Drawings Collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Magasin 3 Konsthalle in Stockholm, the Deste Foundation / Dakis Joannou Collection in Athens, and the Charles Saatchi Collection in London. Kleckner's drawings and collages have been exhibited internationally at museums and institutions such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains (CAPC) in Bordeaux, and the 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece.Schulke, Daniel A.: - DANIEL A. SCHULKE is the author of a number of books on occult philosophy and esoteric herbalism, including Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft and the Poison Path. He is the co-editor of the journal Clavis: Occult Arts, Letters and Experience, and the general editor of the Western Esotericism in Context series for Three Hands Press.
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