A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience.
"While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness--to a holographic vision of the universe.
„Breaking Open the Head” is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and… (tovább)
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A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
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The next day he told the blind shaman about the dragons that said they had created the world. The Shaman smiled knowingly. „Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness.”
Daniel Pinchbeck: Breaking Open the Head A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
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