Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck
A new The Doors of Perception for the 21st century? A visionary journey from cynicism to shamanism by a brilliant young US writer.‘As mind-expanding as the chemicals it chronicles, “Breaking Open the Head” is the most artful and provocative investigation of psychedelia since Aldous Huxley’s “The Doors of Perception”’ Stephen Johnson, author of ‘Emergence’
‘I much admire “Breaking Open the Head” for being the account of an authentic quest for enlightenment in jungles, up rivers, in deserts, and hardest of all to access, the human mind and heart via the one of the oldest thoroughfares on earth, mind-expanding drugs. This is a serious and illuminating journey.’ Paul Theroux
‘By the end of this highly readable report, Pinchbeck’s head has been broken into so often – by ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, DMT and other drugs – that you might expect him to install hinges. Yet there is a seriousness behind his self-experiments and while the drug tales are gripping, and funny, he is at pains to put them in the context of his search for meaning.’ Guardian
‘A modern Odyssey, a search for spiritual revelations, a success.’ Independent
daniel pinchbeck is a founding editor of leading US literary quarterly Open City, and he has written for many US publications such as Rolling Stone and the Village Voice.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007149612 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007149611 |
| Title | Breaking Open the Head |
| Author | Daniel Pinchbeck |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2004-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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