Name: Breaking Open the Head
ISBN: 9780767907439

Daniel Pinchbeck

A study of contemporary shamanism and the spiritual possibilities of psychedelic plants draws on the works of top thinkers and current studies while sharing the author's research of tribal, ritual, and shaman use of psychedelic compounds. Reprint.

A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Breaking Open the Head

A guide to contemporary shamanism, this book takes an alternative view of an age-old subject, asking only only that readers plunge in headfirst. There are many treats to be tempted by as Pinchbeck guides us forward in his always-plausible, always-sane, always-sceptical tour of the psychedelic horizon, from tribal rites in West Africa and Mexico, to other tribal rites in Brooklyn apartments and at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

Breaking Open the Head A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism