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Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck

Breaking Open the Head

von Daniel Pinchbeck

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 philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation with these outlaw compounds, including a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night encounter with the master shamans of the South American rain forest; and a report from a psychedelic utopia in the Black Rock Desert that is the Burning Man Festival.Breaking Open the Head is brave participatory journalism at its best, a vivid account of psychic and intellectual experiences that opened doors in the wall of Western rationalism and completed Daniel Pinchbeck's personal transformation from a jaded Manhattan journalist to shamanic initiate and grateful citizen of the cosmos.

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Das Hörbuch "Den Kopf aufmachen" von Daniel Pinchbeck ist eine gekürzte Lesung von dem englischen Buch "Breaking open the head" und etwa über eine Stunde lang.

Das Werk ist eine schamanische Reise, ein Erfahrungsbericht, über die Bräuche und psychoaktiven Drogen und Einweihungsriten in Afrika und bei den Indianern.

Der Autor schildert seine Erlebnisse bei den Urvölkern, aber auch mittels psychoaktiver Pilze in der westlichen Welt. Dabei beschreibt er die Riten und...

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Art:
eBook
Sprache:
englisch
ISBN:
9780767911528
Erschienen:
August 2002
Verlag:
Crown
10
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