Maggie Award for his profile of UFO contactee and Silicon Valley mogul Joe Firmage. In 2005, he released his second book, Led Zeppelin IV, a monograph on the signature album from one of rock’s most celebrated bands, published by 33⅓. In 2006, Blender magazine included it in their list of the 40 Greatest Rock ‘N Roll Books. In 2006, Davis cemented his reputation as a seminal writer of California counter-culture when he released The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, a coffee table book of pictures and rich essays about California’s alternative spiritual movements and architecture. With photographs by Michael Rauner, the book was published by Chronicle Books. A prolific blogger for his site Techgnosis.com, Davis also released a fourth book in 2010, a collection of essays and journalism entitled Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, published by Yeti Publishing. In early 2006, Davis started working with composer Mark Nichols on the libretto for a rock opera inspired by Burning Man. The resulting production debuted in October of 2009 and was entitled How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera, in which Davis also performed as the bunny-suited, bullhorn-wielding narrator. Davis also wrote extensively about West Coast festival culture in photographer Kyer Wiltshire's 2009 book Tribal Revival. 2010s In 2010, Davis began pursuing a PhD in Religious Studies at Rice University in their Gnosticism, Esotericism and Mysticism program. He has taught courses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Rice University, Pacifica, and CIIS. Davis has appeared in a number of documentaries about technology and countercultural topics, including DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Electronic Awakening, and The Source Family. Until 2019 he hosted the weekly podcast Expanding Mind along with Maja D’Aoust, devoted to the “cultures of consciousness” and part of the Progressive Radio Network. Books TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, Harmony Books, 1998; republished Serpents Tail, 2004. Led Zeppelin IV, Continuum Books, 2005. The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape, with photographs by Michael Rauner, Chronicle Books, 2006. Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, Yeti Books, 2010. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Strange Attractor/MIT Press, 2019. Selected articles "TechGnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information," in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, ed. Mark Dery, Duke University Press, 1994. "Here is Postmodern Space," Burning Man, ed. Brad Wieners, Hardwired, 1997. “Technomancer: Philip K. Dick’s Signal Achievements,” War