English Summary/英文概要： In these wide-ranging essays, cult author Erik Davis explores the codes - spiritual, cultural and embodied - that people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world, from Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods to Western occult and esoteric lore, media technology and psychedelic science. Covering subjects ranging from transvestite Burmese spirit mediums to Ufology, tripster kind Terence McKenna or dub maestro Lee Perry, Davis writes with keen yet sceptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit.

Awards/获奖情况： "Erik Davis is an astute guide through the heavens and hells where cyber-reality, pop culture, and spiritual impulses arm wrestle each other for dominance." -- Jay Kinney, author of The Masonic Myth and the Inner West