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TrippinTeddy
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Breaking Open The Head
#5796598 - 06/27/06 05:57 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Breaking Open The Head: A psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism By Daniel Pinchbeck
Has anyone here read this book? I just picked it up about 5 minutes ago at the old barnes and noble. What are your thoughts on it?
Edited by TrippinTeddy (06/27/06 06:03 PM)
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Damn good book. Got some good stories and insight. If you enjoy it, be sure to checkout Pinchbeck's newest book. Just finished it a few days ago.
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TrippinTeddy
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Awesome! Thanks I will for sure.Do you know the title of the new book?
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TheDude
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Quote:
TrippinTeddy said: I just picked it up about 5 minutes ago at the old barnes and noble.
five finger discount?
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: Breaking Open The Head [Re: TheDude]
#5796780 - 06/27/06 06:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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10 finger. Two guys, barnes and noble.
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sa_mull
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his new book is "2012 : The Return of Quetzalcoatl": Books: Daniel Pinchbeck
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: Breaking Open The Head [Re: sa_mull]
#5796913 - 06/27/06 07:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks man.
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I read it and liked it a lot. It's totally on the edge. Sometimes I would think man this guy has totally lost it but still another part of me would think but you know he might be on to something.
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What kind of material is it? Because recently I've been looking for some good literature on Collective Conciousness and also some good literature on the journey and the awakening.
Any good suggestions?
thanks in advance fellers, and ladies
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Re: Breaking Open The Head [Re: wwonka]
#5797293 - 06/27/06 09:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
"One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance." - Joseph Conrad
"The reader, the thinker, the flaneur, are types of illuminati just as much as the opium eater, the dreamer, the ecstatic. … Not to mention that most terrible drug - ourselves - which we take in solitude." - Walter Benjamin
Welcome to Breaking Open the Head, a companion website for my book, which includes a cultural history of psychedelic use, philosophical and critical perspectives on shamanism, and my personal explorations, ranging from transcendent to terrifying.
While researching, I visited shamans in West Africa, Mexico, and the Ecuadorean Amazon - not to mention the fabulous neo-shamanic Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. In Gabon, a small country on the Equator, I went through a Bwiti initiation, eating iboga, a psychedelic rootbark inducing a trance that lasts for thirty hours. The bark powder temporarily releases the soul from the body, allowing the initiate entry into the African spiritual cosmos, where he is shown the outline of his fate.
Some of the Bwiti call this ceremony, "breaking open the head." The book describes how my own head was broken open, and how I have gingerly attempted to put the pieces back together again.
This website includes material from the book and some sections left out of the published text. It also expands into subjects ranging from the socio-political (corporate globalization, new technologies) to the mystical (Western esotericism, Buddhism, gnosticism, alchemy, 2012) that I hope to explore in future works. My perspective is that all of these subjects are inextricably related, and that the contemporary situation drastically confirms Andre Malraux's dictum, "The 21st Century will be mystical, or it will not be."
I hope that people will use the discussion forums to explore any of the issues raised by the book or my other material, and they should feel free to ask me any questions that occur to them.
www.breakingopenthehead.com
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A friend of mine recently bought this book for me on amazon. It came yesterday and I am totally blown away by it. Not necessarily in that it is revolutionary in concept to me, but because even just the introduction is the best elucidation of the relationship between humans and psychedelics. Through my 6 years of exploration and experimentation I have really struggled with putting to paper the ineffable ideas that have been inspired by my experiences. It is so incredibly refreshing and satisfying to see that is is indeed possible to create such a skillful and grounded explanation as he has managed.
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Re: Breaking Open The Head [Re: ThorAxe1]
#20290049 - 07/18/14 07:59 AM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Holy shit, it is TrippinTeddy!
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Gone for 8 years, he really is a Lost Voyager...
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