false 1814 4 Cross James Merrill, H. P. Lovecraft, and Carlos Castaneda -each imbued with a twenty-first-century aptitude for quantum theory and existential psychology-and you get the voice of Daniel Pinchbeck. And yet, nothing quite prepares us for the lucidity, rationale, and informed audacity of this seeker, skeptic, and cartographer of hidden realms. <br><br> Throughout the 1990s, Pinchbeck had been a member of New York's literary select. He wrote for publications such as <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, and <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>. His first book, <i>Breaking Open the Head</i>, was heralded as the most significant on psychedelic experimentation since the work of Terence McKenna. <br><br> But slowly something happened: Rather than writing from a journalistic remove, Pinchbeck-his literary powers at their peak-began to participate in the shamanic and metaphysical belief systems he was encountering. As his psyche and body opened to new experience, disparate threads and occurrences made sense like never before: Humanity, every sign pointed, is precariously balanced between greater self-potential and environmental disaster. The Mayan calendar's "end date" of 2012 seems to define our present age: It heralds the end of one way of existence and the return of another, in which the serpent god Quetzalcoatl reigns anew, bringing with him an unimaginably ancient-yet, to us, wholly new-way of living. <br><br> A result not just of study but also of participation, <i>2012</i> tells the tale of a single man in whose trials we ultimately recognize our own hopes and anxieties about modern life. 1349235 2006 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl total:631|5:123|4:222|3:172|2:79|1:35| 631 2212 1142 190 3 3 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 20:39:48 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 14:22:51 -0700 2008 .5
Actually, at first, I was kind of impressed with Daniel Pinkchbeck. He knows a lot of big words, for one thing. And how to sling them around. Son of an NYC artist and a NYC writer... he was bound to wind up a little pretentious around the...more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 14:31:26 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 20:51:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 13:26:25 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 20:17:02 -0800 2007 um, buddy, guy, dude, you've based your stupid book on widely (and I mean WIDELY) discredited pseudosc...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 03 20:42:02 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 20:42:02 -0800 2008 1. whining about his "partner"
2. whining about a "priestess."
3. pointless information about burning man (he has...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 17:48:27 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 21:28:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jun 17 06:03:31 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 24 10:23:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon May 19 20:14:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 09:54:42 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 20:14:00 -0700 2008 "DOOM!"

Sorry, that's not the author's exact quote; let me find it for you. Here we go: "It is my thesis that the rapid development of technology and the destruction of the biosphere are material by-products of a psycho-spiritual process taking place on a planetary scale."...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 11:44:03 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 10:20:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 13 16:26:46 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 17:01:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jan 26 06:07:27 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:35:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 15:52:59 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 01 12:27:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jan 07 17:56:09 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 18:01:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 17:56:12 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 18:05:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Nov 01 12:10:39 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 12:14:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Feb 23 10:45:03 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 10:47:09 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:05:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:35:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 15:53:40 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:18:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Apr 29 14:06:06 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 14:18:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 14 15:57:03 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 16:44:38 -0700 2009
I found that, while I couldn't really stand the author's self-centered ranting on ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Dec 02 09:09:06 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 02 09:21:19 -0800 2007 more...]]>