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Articles by: Erik Davis

The Paisley Gate

How do we express and characterize the relationship between psychedelics and Dharma practice?

The Mystery of DMT: A Talk with Graham St John

DMT been damned as the “nightmare hallucinogen” with no medicinal value, or received accolades as the “spirit molecule”, and the brain’s very own psychedelic. The further in you go, the deeper the mystery gets.

Bluetech Speaks [Expanding Mind]

Downtempo legend Bluetech speaks to Erik about growing things, enthused activism, and his ongoing epic inspired by the space dog Laika.

Evolving Dharma [Expanding Mind]

Jay Michaelson talks about new school dharma, McMindfulness, and activism with Erik and Maja

Edgewalker: An Interview with Jeffrey J. Kripal

Jeffrey J. Kripal is one of the most unusual scholars of religion working in America today. His interests include superhero comics, the paranormal, UFO research, the human potential movement, and the mystical experiences of religious scholars.

Terence McKenna’s Last Trip

The psychedelic philosopher and mushroom advocate Terence McKenna sometimes seriously and sometimes playfully predicted that a transformative event for planetary consciousness would happen on December 21, 2012. In Spring 1999, not long before his untimely passing, McKenna discussed his pathbreaking ideas with Erik Davis for this now-legendary article for Wired.

Adventures in Esoterica

Celebrating the release of my new book Nomad Codes, I will tell tales and reflect on two decades of covering esoterica and the cultural fringe.

Stephan Beyer Drinks Up

In contrast to many Euro-American aya fans, who fetishize the otherness of the Amazonian shaman, Beyer does not characterize the Amazon's techniques of religious ecstasy as archaic residues free from any contamination from today's globalized world. The culture of ayahuasca is both stronger and weaker than that.

Tribal Revival

Every summer, tens of thousands of participants descend upon dozens of festivals and gatherings, great and small, that occur on the West Coast of North America: Shambhala, Oracle, Moontribe, Lightning in a Bottle. The first thing you learn about the festival is: to get there, you must leave here. You must cross a threshold.

The Atmosphere of Heaven

What is it like to take a drug before it is "a drug"? In the late eighteenth century, members of the Pneumatic Institution, an outpost of British medical exploration, pursued the nature of consciousness by sucking down bags of nitrous oxide and concluded that "Nothing exists but thoughts!"

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Articles by: Erik Davis

The Paisley Gate

The Mystery of DMT: A Talk with Graham St John

Bluetech Speaks [Expanding Mind]

Evolving Dharma [Expanding Mind]

Edgewalker: An Interview with Jeffrey J. Kripal

Terence McKenna’s Last Trip

Adventures in Esoterica

Stephan Beyer Drinks Up

Tribal Revival

The Atmosphere of Heaven

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