Daniel Pinchbeck radio interview

[MTZ]

Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of "Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism" and his latest book is "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl"

Join me and Daniel as we talk about his books and everything from psychedelics to the Mayan Calendar, 2012, Terrence McKenna, "the Cosmic Serpent", communication with entheogens and much more.

http://www.red-ice.net/radio/2006/09sep/20060910.html

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good find

[hotaru]

That was a good listen man, thanks for posting that.

I tend to dislike people who claim that psychedelics give them access to esoteric knowledge, like how the world began or how it will end...this guy comes to some conclusions about the next five years being apocalyptically pivotal, which I disagree with to an extent, but he seems to do it by applying his psychedelic/shamanist insights as analytical tools rather than as revelation. Which I like.

They spent most of the hour talking about 2012, but I also appreciated the subject of incorporating a more shamanistic viewpoint into western thinking, and the value of some of the viewpoints formed during the "hippy" movement, and how they are re-emerging today in what Pinchbeck considers a more mature/sophisticated incarnation.

I picked up Breaking Open the Head a couple years ago at a booksale and forgot about it until now, kinda makes me want to give it a read.

[lavalee99]

It's rare that I get absorbed into a book - but 'Breaking Open the Head' hooked me right away. Loved the chapters on Burning Man, and Ibogaine. Some original thinking - I think he's advanced the ball. Lava

[dreamatrix]

pinchbeck is sort of new mckenna if you ask me ,,I saw him at BOOm fstival this year where he held an interesting lecture/workshop . although he lacks mckenna's charm somehow hehe .. i read a couple of chatpters of his first book wich is very well written i find,, but in the end no big revalation for the initiated in to the psychdelic culture and its branching id s

[lavalee99]

Anybody read Narby's book 'Cosmic Serpent'? Pinchbeck mentions it in 'breaking open the head' - sounds very interesting.

[enquirewithin]

Pinchbeck is fairly interesting, judging by Breaking Open the Head in the anecdotes he provides (his ibogaine story was funny), but somewhat pretentious. I can't help feeling that he doesn't understand a lot of the stuff he quoting very well and that his stress on Shamanism is a bit laboured, but that's just my opinion.

Good find though.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/2012-Mayan-P...e=UTF8&s=books

2012 is his latest, but I would need persuading to read it.

The angelic hierarchies ... crop circles . . . Stonehenge ... time is the key to understanding 2012, consciousness structures . . . Mental rational consciousness structure ... what time is, a new consciousness ... Jose Arguelles . . . The noosphere ... what 2012 is about, dreamtime . . . Rudolf Steiner ...

What else? Mickey Mouse?

There is more Pinchbeck here:

http://www.matrixmasters.com/pn/2003...pinchbeck.html

BreakingOpentheHead.com
The Way In is the Way Out: An Interview With Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck - Two Lectures from Burning Man Festival
Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite

A very similar thread:
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27627