Author Talk with Peter Bebergal, author of Too Much to Dream: a Psychedelic American Boyhood
Too Much to Dream places the story of a young man’s drug addiction inside the larger history of psychedelics, spirituality, and popular culture.
Readers are taken on a drug-induced journey in search of a mystical experience – a higher meaning to the universe that’s not founded in religion but instead fueled by substances, comic books, punk and psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll, role-playing games, tarot cards, science fiction, Aldous Huxley, and Carlos Castaneda.
Peter Bebergal reveals how the ancient desire to alter consciousness arose in a geeky sixteen-year-old boy, and asks if this desire is part of a deeper human longing that will continue to manifest itself for generations to come – even at a strip mall in the suburbs.
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Bebergal is also the co-author of The Faith Between Us. He studied religion at Brandeis and Harvard Divinity School and writes frequently on the intersection of popular culture, religion and science, as well as reviews on science fiction and fantasy.
The talk will be held in the Orientation room.
