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

Films & Documentaries