Erik Davis

Erik Davis

Erik Davis is an American writer, scholar, journalist, and public speaker whose writings range from rock criticism to cultural analysis to esoteric explorations of California’s history.

WS103: Hunting the White Whale

A Course on Moby-Dick

with Erik Davis and J. F. Martel

For once, the expression “do a deep dive” is justified.  Join the crew, and together we’ll chase the white whale into the depths.

This course starts January 20.

ED101: The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick

Reading PKD’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch as prophecy

with Erik Davis

ED101: The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick invites participants to read PKD’s 1964 Novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch as a prophetic precog flash on our present metacrisis and as an oracle to provide an answer to the question, “What would Philip K. Dick have to say about the strange state of current affairs?”

This course concluded in April 2025 and is now self-paced.