Eric Davis is just one of those incredible minds that has tilted its genius towards topics that most of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about the occult, the mysticism, psychedelica, as it extends backwards into time.

I've been really looking forward to this conversation ever since Jason Silva started mentioning his name and I started reading his writing.

His book High Weirdness is, well, as it says, it's weird, it's wild, it's beautiful, and so is this podcast. Can't wait to share it with you all.

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Eric Davis has a really unique perspective on where we are now in human history because he's studied human history.

He understands the psychedelic revolution of the 60s and he understands how our psychedelic revolution now is different, but perhaps in some ways the same.

So of course there are the caveats, there are the dangers, there are the things to look out for from someone who really understands what to look out for, but also the hope.

But also the vision for what this might be. So this conversation covers both elements where we could go and steer into some difficult and challenging waters and where we might come out the other side different than we ever have been as a culture and as a society.

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