The Electric Dharma
PUBLISHING AUGUST 21, 2025
In 1967, four Beat writers began exchanging letters about strange encounters with beings who seemed to have stepped straight out of the future of television and into the real world. What began as casual correspondence spiraled into a chronicle of evolving consciousness, media disruption, and the dissolution of personal identity.
Danny Kowalski sees silver-suited figures performing "upgrades" in downtown Denver. Marcus Delacroix hitches a ride with two monster-hunting brothers on a Kansas backroad. Solomon "Big Daddy" Rothstein finds enlightenment pulsing from a flickering TV set. Theodore Nakamura warns of control systems disguised as entertainment. Reality is beginning to unravel.
Discovered bound in twine in a secondhand bookshop in San Francisco, these letters document the transformation of four literary and cultural outsiders into something else entirely: a shared awareness, a broadcast mind, a mythic echo calling itself The Electric Dharma.
Part spiritual memoir, part media theory, part beatnik prophecy, this strange, funny, and mind-bending collection invites you to tune in and drop through.
The signal is live. The revolution is electric.
It’s your move.
"A brilliant fusion of Beat sensibility and cosmic horror that somehow becomes transcendent spiritual teaching."
"This book will either change your life or convince you that reality is far stranger than you ever imagined. Possibly both."
PUBLISHING AUGUST 21, 2025
In 1967, four Beat writers began exchanging letters about strange encounters with beings who seemed to have stepped straight out of the future of television and into the real world. What began as casual correspondence spiraled into a chronicle of evolving consciousness, media disruption, and the dissolution of personal identity.
Danny Kowalski sees silver-suited figures performing "upgrades" in downtown Denver. Marcus Delacroix hitches a ride with two monster-hunting brothers on a Kansas backroad. Solomon "Big Daddy" Rothstein finds enlightenment pulsing from a flickering TV set. Theodore Nakamura warns of control systems disguised as entertainment. Reality is beginning to unravel.
Discovered bound in twine in a secondhand bookshop in San Francisco, these letters document the transformation of four literary and cultural outsiders into something else entirely: a shared awareness, a broadcast mind, a mythic echo calling itself The Electric Dharma.
Part spiritual memoir, part media theory, part beatnik prophecy, this strange, funny, and mind-bending collection invites you to tune in and drop through.
The signal is live. The revolution is electric.
It’s your move.
"A brilliant fusion of Beat sensibility and cosmic horror that somehow becomes transcendent spiritual teaching."
"This book will either change your life or convince you that reality is far stranger than you ever imagined. Possibly both."
PUBLISHING AUGUST 21, 2025
In 1967, four Beat writers began exchanging letters about strange encounters with beings who seemed to have stepped straight out of the future of television and into the real world. What began as casual correspondence spiraled into a chronicle of evolving consciousness, media disruption, and the dissolution of personal identity.
Danny Kowalski sees silver-suited figures performing "upgrades" in downtown Denver. Marcus Delacroix hitches a ride with two monster-hunting brothers on a Kansas backroad. Solomon "Big Daddy" Rothstein finds enlightenment pulsing from a flickering TV set. Theodore Nakamura warns of control systems disguised as entertainment. Reality is beginning to unravel.
Discovered bound in twine in a secondhand bookshop in San Francisco, these letters document the transformation of four literary and cultural outsiders into something else entirely: a shared awareness, a broadcast mind, a mythic echo calling itself The Electric Dharma.
Part spiritual memoir, part media theory, part beatnik prophecy, this strange, funny, and mind-bending collection invites you to tune in and drop through.
The signal is live. The revolution is electric.
It’s your move.
"A brilliant fusion of Beat sensibility and cosmic horror that somehow becomes transcendent spiritual teaching."
"This book will either change your life or convince you that reality is far stranger than you ever imagined. Possibly both."