Read BookBreaking Open the Head A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

[PDF.PK4x] Breaking Open the Head A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

[PDF.PK4x] Breaking Open the Head A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

You can download in the form of an ebook: pdf, kindle ebook, ms word here and more softfile type. [PDF.PK4x] Breaking Open the Head A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, this is a great books that I think are not only fun to read but also very educational.
Book Details :
Published on: 2003-08-12
Released on: 2003-08-12
Original language: English

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.From the Hardcover edition. Must Watch - Consciousness Documentaries - Sprword.com ... "The real war is the war on consciousness. It's very important to always remember that ...Mind control is ubiquitous. It's almost a question of who is not mind ... Meher Baba - Wikipedia Meher Baba was an Irani born in Pune India to a Zoroastrian family. His given name was Merwan Sheriar Irani. He was the second son of Sheriar Irani a Persian ... Celtic Myth and Moonlight Sacred Paths This page about various sacred paths provides information on Asatru Celticism. Druidry Paganism Shamanism Spirituality Wicca Witchcraft and more. As time ... Drugs and the Meaning of Life The Huffington Post Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions like love and avoid others like ... Slate Articles - Politics Business Technology and the Arts This essay was adapted from the book To Be a Machine by Mark OConnell published by Doubleday. Even if it were possible to put aside for a moment the considerable ... Music and Consciousness - SFX Machine An exploration of the interactions between music and consciousness with an emphasis on Surrealism dreams and psychoacoustic effects. Cultural Anthropology/Print version - Wikibooks open ... Cultural Anthropology: (also: sociocultural anthropology social anthropology or ethnology) Studies contemporary human cultures and how these cultures are shaped or ... How Ibogaine Fights Stubborn Prescription Painkiller ... While there is limited scientific research about how ibogaine works evidence suggests that the substance resets neurotransmitters that have been programmed for ... Fleur-de-lis Origin - HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT decoding the fleur de lis the origin and meaning of the fleur de lis. in the new world before columbus: ... Ibogaine - Wikipedia Psychoactive effects. Ibogaine is a psychedelic. The experience of Ibogaine is broken down in two phases the visionary phase and the introspection phase.
PDF BookHere Comes the Shaggedy (Goosebumps Most Wanted #9)