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by: Daniel Pinchbeck See Larger Image Used Price: $7.13 Third Party New Price: $9.39 Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 191 Format: Bargain Price Label: Tarcher Manufacturer: Tarcher Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: May 04, 2006 Publisher: Tarcher Sales Rank: 192873 Studio: Tarcher Related Items: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This literary and metaphysical epic unifies the cosmological phenomena of our time - from crop circles to quantum mechanics to the worldwide resurgence of shamanism - in support of the Mayan prophecy that the year 2012 portends an unprecedented global shift. Cross Umberto Eco, Aldous Huxley, and Carlos Castaneda and you get the voice of Daniel Pinchbeck. And yet nothing quite prepares you for the lucidity, rationality, and informed audacity of this seeker, skeptic, and cartographer of hidden realms. In tracing the meaning of the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012, and the imminent transition from one world to another prophesied by the Hopi Indians of Arizona, Pinchbeck synthesizes indigenous cosmology, alien abductions, shamanic revivalism, crop circles, psychedelic visions, the current ecological crisis and the Judeo-Christian Apocalypse into a new vision for our time. The result is an unprecedented and riveting inquiry into where humanity is immediately headed - and its strange and startling congruence with the ideas of the mysterious civilization of the Classical Maya. Throughout the 1990s, Pinchbeck had been a member of New York's literary select. He wrote for publications like ArtForum, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. Critics acclaimed his first book, Breaking Open the Head, as the most significant contribution to psychedelic literature since the work of Terence McKenna. But the unexpected occurred: Pinchbeck found himself increasingly pulled into the shamanic and metaphysical realms he was reporting on as a journalist. As his mind opened to new and sometimes threatening experiences, disparate threads and synchronicities made new sense: Humanity, every sign suggested, faces an imminent decision between greater self-potential and environmental ruin. The Mayan 'birth date' of 2012 could herald the close of one way of existence and the beginning of another, symbolized by the prophesied return of the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl, the mysterious 'Plumed Serpent' of ancient myth. In just the nick of time, the skeptical modern mind can reclaim the suppressed psychic, intuitive, and mystical dimensions of being, and institute a new planetary culture. But it is only - and by no means assuredly - possible if we confront the environmental catastrophe staring us in the face. Something is in the air: many, if not most, of us feel that real change - for good or ill - is afoot. Pinchbeck's journey - a metaphysical opus that takes the reader from the endangered rain forests of the Amazon, to the stone megaliths of the English plains, to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada - tells the tale of a single man in whose trials we ultimately recognize our own secret thoughts and unease over modern life. And a redemptive vision of where we are heading. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - One Man's Quest For Answers Regarding 2012 This is an interesting book compared to other 2012 material out there, as it allows you the chance to "break open the head" and enter the mind of an intellectual person yearning to learn more about himself, life, mysticism, cynicism and - last but not least - how all of this fits into the Mayan end date of December 21, 2012. Feeling at times that our life-paths have taken similar directions (we've probably even bumped into each other at Burning Man and were both writing books about ... Read More Rating: - Nicely written but....... This book is nicely written and interesting. I agree that there are things going on that we do not understand. I do agree that something will happen in 2012 as far astrological alignments are concerned. Whether or not they are for the good or bad. That is to be determined. I personally think this author has done too much acid. This book as nothing really to do with Quetzalcoatl at all. He talks primarily about crop circles and his relationship with his childs mother going down the drain due to drugs. ... Read More Rating: - Awful I bought it thinking it was going to be interesting - it is hard to read because it is so bad. My father picked it up and read a few pages and had to put it down because it was so bad. Don't waste your time or money - not really about 2012, more about the author and whatever ego/mind trip he was on. Rating: - Lame Lame Lame I thought that this book was going to be about 2012, but instead it was some annoying guy justifying his drug habit. I wish I had kept my money and bought something of substance. Rating: - 2012 I found this book very interesting and very well written. The interesting with Pinchbeck is his backgrund in the intellectual art milieu of New York combined with a later interest in the occult, new spirituality and mysticism. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl is sort of a spiritual and intellectual biography. We follow Daniel on his travels and thoughts, to Stonhenge to look for crop circles, to the amazonas to try hallucinogenic mushroooms and so on. Driven by a frustration over the shallowness and crudeness ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Subjects Biographies & Memoirs Business & Investing Children's Books Comics & Graphic Novels