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2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck
from Tarcher

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Fascinating Read!
  This is probably the best book I've read on the topic of 2012. I couldn't put it down! Definitely worth purchasing. Much more interesting than "Breaking Open The Head."

• It's not 2012. It is 1960
  I am not here to tell you if this is a good or a bad book. You have many other reviews for that. I am here to tell you only one thing: if you want to read about the year 2012 and all the events that might happen on this year, THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT BOOK. The author keeps telling you about his own experiences with this or that drug, in this or that country. So, for 2012 information, look somewhere else.

• prophecy and polypharmacy
  Early in this psychogenic memoir Daniel Pinchbeck tells us his mother dated Jack Kerouac. He then takes us on an 'On the Road' on steroids, or rather, on LSD, channeling the beat poet in addition to the Aztec serpent deity. But unlike 'On the Road', this is no scroll written in three weeks. The 400 page memoir takes us back and forth across four continents with an impressive collection of hallucinogenic polypharmacy. One major premise sees the world as waking dream. Human consciousness did not evolve, but... more info

• Self importance defined...
  Can this guy get over himself? I couldn't finish this book for two reasons.
  1) Has very little to do with 2012...well, at least in the first half at which point I was so disinterested that I gave up.
  2) Self-important drivel about psychedelic adventures that really don't mean anything to me.
  While I did find his rants about his Psilocybin and LSD adventures interesting, it bought the book expecting more thoughts on 2012. Granted, I gave up after half way through, but as others have mentioned,... more info

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