Website review: Breaking Open the Head
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•7 reviews since Feb 24, 2004
counterculture, drugs, shamanism
•breakingopenthehead.com
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Hermes001 rated 10 days ago- More Pinchbeck. I have liked everything I've read of his. Interesting website.
- pixiequix rated 16 months ago
"Among shamanic tribal cultures, plants that induce visions are the center of spiritual life and tradition. Tribes in Africa, Siberia, South and North America, and elsewhere believe that these plants are sentient beings, supernatural emissaries. They ascribe their music and medicine, their cosmology and extensive botanical knowledge to the visions given to them in psychedelic trance. For tribes in Africa, Siberia, North and South America, and many other regions, rejection of the visionary knowledge offered by the botanical world would be a form of insanity."
- RickAReynolds rated 18 months ago
- I'm all caught up in this book right now.... who wants to go to Africa with me for a iboga adventure???? very very interesting and insightful work!!!!
- twocrows rated 21 months ago
- "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..." a great book
- KingBoy rated 30 months ago
- Spin-off website of Daniel Pinchbeck's superb and vital book. Site '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."'
- Ogmin rated 32 months ago
- 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."
