Recommended Media

 Local History

• Archives of the San Francisco Bay Guardian

• Archives of the Berkeley Barb

• Archives of Folio, Pacifica Radio’s monthly magazine/schedule

Books ⎰ 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

Books ⎰ 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

Articles

• “Selections from ‘Suburbia’ by Bill Owens, 1973,” We Are the Mutants, 2017.

• “Spacy Spheres and Funky Shacks”: The Otherworlds of 1971’s Domebook 2, Michael Grasso, 2019.