A review by tumblehawk
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies by Erik Davis

5.0

This book is mega, a deep dive into the weirdness of a very specific time (the early 70's) in a very specific locale (California) that, like tunneling into a fractal, flowers out to be about the deeper past and the future - i.e. the present we are currently living in. (In this, it reminded me, strangely, of Paris 1919, by Margaret MacMillan - though, obviously, way fucking stranger.) Just a flipped out, excellent book that makes me feel a squirmy thrill at being part of what I now see is a long strange tradition of American seeking.