Erik Davis

I write and lecture on consciousness culture from a California perspective: media, religion, subculture, drugs. Substack:

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? If you want to attend my 5-week PKD course at @BerkeleyAlembic remotely, use this online only
link: https://t.co/iWuH9tJqSo

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

Starting November 3, at @BerkeleyAlembic , I will begin 5 Monday night classes on PKD's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Topix include: empathy, androids, entropy, drugs, Christianity, animals. Let's read PKD as a prophet and guide, albeit a cracked one. Link for in person attendance: https://t.co/QBDbi8hvou

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

A fascinating and deeply thoughtful interview with Robin Rimbaud, aka, Scanner. Not the usual publicity interview, but critical sound studies, surveillance, silence, psychoacoustics. https://t.co/lQYylOloUE

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@TironStefan Luckily I have a backup, its just that the platform distribution disappeared. So they will live again somewhere soon enough. Still, its a weird feeling doing labor for an archive that "should" just be where it was, causing nobody any harm, hardly taking up any space...

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

Sad to announce it but for now you won't be able to access Expanding Mind shows anywhere because Progressive Radio Network, which distributed and hosted it, just decided to delete the entire archive from Podbean. These fed Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@philipp771 Yes I am talking to my web crew on best strategies and the workload involved.

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

I have all the shows (or most of them) on a couple of harddiscs and we will be making them available elsewhere but it will take a bit of time. Thanks for still listening!

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@WilliamBas68694 I know its funny. PRN was kinda janky even then but I liked being part of a radio-like world rather than just going totally solo. I liked the DIY vibe and that came through the show (whose sound kinda sucked for a long time) but it carved out a space for sure!

[Adam Robbert @AE_Robbert]

"If to do philosophy is to discover the primary sense of being, then one does not philosophize in quitting the human situation; it is necessary rather to plunge into it. The absolute knowledge of the philosopher is perception."

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “In Praise of Philosophy”

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@OortCloudAtlas No the issue is more that all the links will be permanently broken. I can put it on youtube, my site, and internet archive, so it will be available, but now there is all this flotsam in the way.

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@PsykeonOfficial Indeed! Its funny, on the one hand it was a total nightmare, but emotionally I was more philosophical about it than I would have expected. Disappointed that PRN, who I provided content to and promoted for a decade, didn't even try and reach out. But thats janky for ya!

[David Luke @drdluke]

Great piece by Tamlin Magee for BBC celebrates the many unsung contributions of https://t.co/MYclFAMKyj to drug policy, culture and science & interviews psychedelic nerds like myself, @erik_davis, @RickDoblin, @LeorRoseman, & @NicolasLanglitz

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

I called up Progressive Radio Network to see why this happened and if there was anything to do about it. And the dude literally hung up on me.

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@poorerthandead @BasicBooks @JF_Martel Here's my Expanding Mind podcast interview with JF Martel in 2015 shortly after Reclaiming Art first came out. Pre @weirdstudies! A great conversation. https://t.co/EvF65H0eZd

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

Consider yourself a "practitioner"? Come join me and @OneiroFer at the @BerkeleyAlembic for an open Practice Circle this Saturday at 2pm. How does “practicing” meditation or yoga relate to other forms of practice? What makes psychedelics a “practice” and not just a trip? Are practices “tools” or something more transformative? An open forum to reflect on your practicing life. https://t.co/yJ9dVLm6Ab

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

You go Maurice!

[Adam Robbert @AE_Robbert]

"If to do philosophy is to discover the primary sense of being, then one does not philosophize in quitting the human situation; it is necessary rather to plunge into it. The absolute knowledge of the philosopher is perception."

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “In Praise of Philosophy”

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

@HuwRafi I love it, liquid cosmology. This is maybe algorithmic cosmology. So attractive to so many folks.

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

I wonder how many substances are greasing this slide into the rabbit warren.

[Keith Sakata, MD @KeithSakata]

I’m a psychiatrist.

In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern.

Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵

[Erik Davis @erik_davis]

The peacock will be proud (but then again, he is always proud....)

[bwp @bpleasies]

@erik_davis @BerkeleyAlembic Hi Erik, first time long time, etc. Just wanted to share the ‘peacock angel theme song’ my friend Julia made after she read your essay in Strange Attractor Journal Four 🦚

[Dave Griffith @poorerthandead]

“We do not know why we make art, and yet we cannot subtract it from our self-image as a species without losing the thing that makes us what we are.”

J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice