Enter the Sanctum of the Heroic Pervert with Erik Davis

In this episode we try to articulate the fog of our time, away from fear, toward the pervert’s embrace of absurdity, uncertainty, spiritual warfare, gallows humor, the distinction between happiness and joy, and the strange, redemptive sanctum of the heroic pervert... Erik Davis, PhD, is an author, award-winning journalist, sometimes podcaster, and popular speaker based in San Francisco.  He is the author of five books: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s; Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica; The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape, and the 33 1/3 volume Led Zeppelin IV. His first and best-known book remains TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information.  Erik hosted the podcast Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network for a decade, and earned his PhD in Religious Studies from Rice University in 2015.  He currently writes the Substack publication Burning Shore. To learn more about Erik visit his site at techgnosis.com. Theme music by Joseph E. Martinez of Junius     Follow us on social at:    Twitter: @WakeIslandPod Instagram: @wakeislandpod David's Twitter: @raviddice   Erik's Twitter: @erik_davis