The unfathomably meditative journey of Daniel Pinchbeck’s 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl emanates an inherent shamanic property of uniquely Pichbeckian proportions. Both an enigmatic personal journey of grand-introspection and a communally applicable discourse on the socio-political constructs of time, relationships, and humanity, the familiar academic prose rarely skips a linguistic beat. From the cynical skepticism shrouding his lustfully psychedelic Burning Man experiences to the awe-stricken wondrous pigment of the Mayan cosmology and crop circles, an inimitable heir of knowledge acts as the driving force for his inspection. He carefully dissects the assumedly romantic disposition of religion, monogamy, and the true nature of the time-space continuum, with a gently poetic voice, assuring that the journey is one of personal realization and revitalization, as well as a potential guide to the neo-shamanic psychonaut. The overtly educated structure, riddled with quotes from the likes of Saul Bellows, Alan Watts and W.B. Yeats, provides a much-needed school of academia to the ensuing fantasies and realities of noospheric revisions. His Kerouacian lust for life is only too perfectly matched with the familiar excitement so prominent in the early Huxley discovery writings, and leads with a bright torch the journey through Brazil, Africa, the Amazonian jungles, and Times square, ultimately residing in his newly-refined vision of the sweeping currents of universal cosmos. A true ‘trip’ of grandiose proportions, the powerful exaltations of Pinchbeck outline every minute detail of existence, as a seemingly necessary template for the endeavoring explorer, providing both applicably subjective insight and further guidelines for the potential of objective exploration. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl is an inscrutably quixotic journey through consciousness, not to be missed by even the most reluctantly skeptic psychonaut.
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