Paul Jeffrey Davids
1 archived appearance · 1997
Paul Jeffrey Davids is a writer, director, producer, artist, and author. A Princeton psychology graduate who also studied at the American Film Institute, he co-wrote and executive-produced the Golden Globe-nominated television film Roswell and directed documentaries including Timothy Leary's Dead. With Hollace Davids, he wrote the six-volume Jedi Prince series for Lucasfilm, and his later nonfiction has examined reported evidence for survival after death. His Art Bell appearance focused on Leary, the making of the documentary, and the competing public memories of its subject.
On the air with Art · 1
Jun 2, 1997 · 2h 36m
Timothy Leary Documentary
Paul Davids discusses his documentary about Timothy Leary, the psychologist and counterculture figure whose advocacy of psychedelics changed American culture.Art Bell asks how the film approaches Leary’s experiments, public persona, imprisonment, political conflict, and final years. Davids reflects on archival mater...
Books by Paul Jeffrey Davids · 13
The Fires of Pele: Mark Twain's Legendary Lost Journal
1991
The Glove of Darth Vader
1992
The Lost City of the Jedi
1992
Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
1992
Mission from Mount Yoda
1993
Queen of the Empire
1993
Prophets of the Dark Side
1993
Poems to Read While Driving on Freeways
2012
Right-Brained Poems for Left-Brained People
2012
Poems to Read When You Run Out of Weed
2012
An Atheist in Heaven: The Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death?
2016
Blowing America's Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen
2017
The Art of Paul Jeffrey Davids, 2009–2020
2020