Nomad Codes

Adventures in Modern Esoterica

By: Erik Davis, Susan Willmarth (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 December 2010

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In these wide-ranging essays, 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. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric lore, postmodern theory and psychedelic science, as well as festival scenes such as Burning Man. Whether his subject is collage art or the "magickal realism" of H. P. Lovecraft, Davis writes with keen yet skeptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit, and unbridled curiosity. The common thread running through these pieces is what Davis calls "modern esoterica," which he describes as "a no-man's-land located somewhere between anthropology and mystical pulp, between the zendo and the metal club, between cultural criticism and extraordinary experience. Such an ambiguous and startling landscape demands that the intrepid adventurer shed any territorial claims and go nomad."

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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

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Erik's Trip: Foreword	p. 9
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 15
Prolegomenon
Teenage Head	p. 21
Orientalismo
The Wandering Sufi	p. 33
Sampling Paradise	p. 42
Cameo Demons: Sun City Girls	p. 59
The Gone World: The Secret Museum of Mankind	p. 74
Burmese Daze: My Date with a Transvestite Spirit Medium	p. 78
Invocations
Klingon Like Me	p. 103
Calling Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft's Magickal Realism	p. 114
Trickster at the Crossroads	p. 136
Snakes & Ladders	p. 150
Shards of the Diamond Matrix (A Ludibrium)	p. 166
Inner Space
Meditating in Sensurround	p. 177
The Paisley Gate: Tantric Psychedelia	p. 188
Diamond Solitaire	p. 198
The Bad Shaman and the Frog	p. 202
Psychonaut	p. 204
Aya Avatar	p. 211
Terence McKenna's Last Trip	p. 214
Mad Science
Saint Phil	p. 231
Dub, Scratch and the Black Star: Lee Perry	p. 236
The Soft Machine	p. 253
Alien Views	p. 258
Melancholy Machines: Boards of Canada	p. 268
Uncanny TV	p. 270
Remote Control	p. 272
Matrixter	p. 278
Kalifornika
Calling All Gods: Crash Worship	p. 289
The Alchemy of Trash: West Coast Spiritual Collage	p. 291
Jack Spicer's Ghosts	p. 307
Beyond Belief: The Cults of Burning Man	p. 315
Au Revoir La Contessa	p. 340
Coda
Bardo Flight	p. 347
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