Recommended Media
Fiction
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," Jorge Luis Borges
Great Jones Street, Don DeLillo
Running Dog, Don DeLillo
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Philip K. Dick
VALIS, Philip K. Dick
Hystopia, David Means
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed
Non-fiction
Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword along El Camino Real, Craig Chalquist
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Erik Davis
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
The White Album, Joan Didion
Retreat: How The Counterculture Invented Wellness, Matthew Ingram
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, Jeffrey Kripal
Subliminal Seduction, Wilson Bryan Key
1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of the Post-Sixties America, Andreas Killen
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream, David McGowan
Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance, Stephen Paul Miller
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring
Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge, Rick Perlstein
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, Theodore Roszak
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love, David Talbot
Forbidden Science, Volume Two: Journals, 1970-1979 — California Hermetica, Jacques Vallée
The Invisible College, Jacques Vallée
Messengers of Deception, Jacques Vallée
Articles
Films & Documentaries
The Century of the Self, dir. Adam Curtis
Inherent Vice, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Mirage Men, dir. John Lundberg
The Parallax View, dir. Alan Pakula
The Source Family, dir. Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulo
World on a Wire, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Wormwood, dir. Errol Morris