Erik Davis is an author, award-winning journalist, and teacher based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, a study of LSD blotter art. He also wrote High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (2019), Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (2010), and the cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998), which is still in print. Erik’s scholarly and popular essays on music, technoculture, drugs, and spirituality have appeared in publications, and his writing has been translated into a dozen languages. Davis has spoken widely at universities, conferences, retreat centers, and festivals, and has been interviewed by CNN, the BBC, NPR, and the New York Times. He currently writes the Burning Shore newsletter and sits on the board of the Berkeley Alembic, a center for consciousness culture.