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 Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck
 Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck ... FlamingoNewest Review: ... remnants of their liberal, idiosyncratic culture - the quaint, slow-motioned world of antiquated cafes, old revival houses, ... more ... independent bookstores.' The result of which appears to have been Pinchbeck's descent into a frivolous, empty malaise.
And then he went to Gabon.
Inspired by the desire to find a humanistic and 'an original relation to the universe', BOTH begins with Pinchbeck's account of his trip to the small east African country, where he had heard of a tribe and a plant that might be able to help him.
The title of the book comes from the result of Pinchbeck's Gabonese shamanic experience, where, thanks to his ingesting of t...more |
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Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck: Gateway to Heaven? (764 words)
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Breaking Open The Head is a documentation of writer Daniel Pinchbeck's quest to, as he puts it, solve the mystery as to why numerous indiginous tribes, lead by their Shamans, across the globe use and revere mind-altering substances, known to us as psychedelics. Against this, Pinchbeck describes the history of psychedelic use in the West, from the initial scientific fervour over what these perception-altering substances had to offer, to their radical and evangelical criminilisation by successive Western governments. Prior to undertaking this task, Pinchbeck describes that he was an atheist and a 'disbeliever in metaphysical possibilities', fully engrossed in ... Read the complete review
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