Boing Boing: Erik Davis workshop in Big Sur

Friday, January 28, 2005

Erik Davis workshop in Big Sur

BB pal Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and an amazing body of articles on technology, culture, and strange belief systems, is teaching a workshop at Esalen in April called "The Visionary State: California's Spiritual Frontiers." The title of the workshop comes from a new book Erik is just completing with photographer Michael Rauner.

"Over the last one hundred and fifty years, California has developed one of the most innovative spiritual cultures on the planet. Many of our contemporary concerns with deep ecology, human transformation, body-positive spirituality, and the technoscience of mind are rooted in the state's maverick "culture of consciousness." California has been home to spiritual mavericks like Alan Watts and Aldous Huxley, to popular visionaries like Starhawk and Carlos Castaneda, to spiritual poets like Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder, and to visionary organizations like Esalen and the Ojai Institute. Why did all this happen here?

This seminar will explore and try to explain this rich legacy using poems, film clips, music, photographs, and slides drawn from Erik Davis's own exploration of California's hidden temples and sacred spots. The program will examine the idea that California's alternative spirituality forms a distinct religious tradition on its own—a kind of West Coast Hinduism, full of diverse and often contradictory sects, philosophies, and spiritual technologies, but sharing a a common cultural landscape."

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