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Breaking Open the Head : A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by DANIEL PINCHBECK

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• It was ok...
  It was a good book but there didn't really seem to be a purpose. A little eclectic and scattered it was an interesting read but i would recommend The Electric Kool-AId Acid Test by Tom Wolfe instead.

• spiritual alientation in the modern world
  If Marx addressed the problem of modern man's alienation from an economic perspective, Pinchbeck addresses the exact problem from a spiritual stance, not unlike Jung. In the argot of postmodernism, this is a "readerly text. In other words, it's not something you'll use for your graduate thesis; but that's what I like about it: none of us is able to put forth our own personal ontology as something universal or objective. To do so would not only be a bore, but insufferably self-absorbed. Pinchbeck offers his... more info

• fascinating reporting
  I read Pinchbeck's 2012 last Fall, and found his writing on contemporary shamanism fascinating. Where 2012 discussed a lot of other seemingly random, somewhat interconnected phenomena, the underlying narrative was his discussion of psychedelic drugs. Having never tried psychedelics, I found his study interesting, and 20122 was hard to put down...so I had to pick up Breaking Open the Head.
  Breaking Open the Head is just as good as 2012. The focus was more on the drugs, less on Pinchbeck's life.... more info

• Breaking Open the Head
  Pinchbeck has a talented, colorful writing style. I think this book will be helpful to people that are just beginning their quest for knowledge about entheogens. He gives a nice overview of the cultural history involved and quotes from writings by many well-know researchers. My favorite two parts in the book were his descriptions of Burning Man and the Ethnobotany Conferences. I laughed as I read through them, remembering some of my experiences at those events.
  I am not trying to be too critical of the... more info

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