Daniel Pinchbeck




Daniel Pinchbeck

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June 15, 1966


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Author Daniel Pinchbeck has deep personal roots in the New York counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s. His father was an abstract painter, and his mother, Joyce Johnson, was a member of the Beat Generation and dated Jack Kerouac as On the Road hit the bestseller lists in 1957 (chronicled in Johnsons bestselling book, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir). Pinchbeck was a founder of the 1990s literary magazine Open City with fellow writers Thomas Beller and Robert Bingham. He has written for many publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1994, he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of Thirty Under Thirty destined to change our culture.

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avg rating: 3.70 | 1,178 ratings | 319 reviews | 15 distinct works | 6 fans
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoa... 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 3.54 — 493 ratings — published 2006
4 editions
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Breaking Open the Head: A Psyc... Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 4.07 — 349 ratings — published 2002
5 editions
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The Mystery of 2012: Predictio... The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities
by Gregg Braden, Daniel Pinchbeck, Peter Russell
avg rating 3.55 — 98 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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Burning Man: Art in the Desert Burning Man: Art in the Desert
by A. Leo Nash, Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published 2007
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Toward 2012: Perspectives on t... Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age
by Daniel Pinchbeck, Ken Jordan
avg rating 3.36 — 25 ratings — published 2008
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Mushroom Magick: A Visionary F... Mushroom Magick: A Visionary Field Guide
by Arik Moonhawk Roper (Illustrator), Erik Davis (Introduction), Daniel Pinchbeck (Foreword), Gary Lincoff
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2009
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Breaking Open the Head: A Psyc... Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 3.00 — 6 ratings — published 2002
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The Wondrous Mushroom: Sacred... The Wondrous Mushroom: Sacred Mushrooms in Mexico and Mesoamerica
by R. Gordon Wasson, Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2007
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Darklore Vol. 1 Darklore Vol. 1
by Daniel Pinchbeck, Lynn Picknett
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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Reality 2.0: Shamans, Psychede... Reality 2.0: Shamans, Psychedelics, and the Next Step in Evolution
by Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008
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Jeff Koons & Andy Warhol: Flow... Jeff Koons & Andy Warhol: Flowers
by Jeff Koons, Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
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2012: Biography of a Time Trav... 2012: Biography of a Time Traveler: The Journey of Jose Arguelles
by Stephanie South, Daniel Pinchbeck (Foreword)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
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Open City #10 : The Editors' I... Open City #10 : The Editors' Issue
by Daniel Pinchbeck
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000
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2012 2012
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Breaking Open the Head Breaking Open the Head
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"We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies."
Daniel Pinchbeck
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"The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long term consequence. If there is still a vague and oppressive sense of guilt, of wrongness and imbalance, this gnawing guilt spurs capitalism on to greater acts of consumption, more ... Read moreviolent attempts to subjugate nature, more totalizing efforts to create distractions. To the "rational materialist" mind, death is the end of everything; this thought feeds its rage against nature, which has placed it in this position of despair."
Daniel Pinchbeck
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"In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path."
Daniel Pinchbeck (Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism)
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