2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

by Daniel Pinchbeck

Overview

The acclaimed metaphysical epic that binds together the cosmological phenomena of our time, ranging from crop circles to quantum theory to the resurgence of psychedelic drugs, to support the contention of the Mayan calendar that the year 2012 portends a global shift-in consciousness, culture, and way of living-of unprecedented consequence.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585425921
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/06/2007
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.02(d)
Age Range:	18 - 14 Years

About the Author

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 Johnson’s 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.

Pinchbeck lives in New York’s East Village, where he is editorial directory of Reality Sandwich (www.realitysandwich.com). He writes a column, Prophet Motive, for Conscious Enlightment publishing (www.cemagazines.com), which appears in Conscious Choice (Chicago), Conscious Choice (Seattle), Whole Life Times (LA), and Common Ground (SF).

Editorial Reviews

In his debut book, Breaking Open the Head, psychedelic journalist Daniel Pinchbeck took readers on a journey into contemporary shamanism. This even more ambitious follow-up proposes that we stand near the beginning of a transformation of global consciousness. Pinchbeck's unabashedly "extravagant thought experiment" ranges freely over phenomena including crop cycles, globalization, Mayan prophecies, and his own hallucinogenic visions.