Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism Nature Spirit thus aligning and harmonizing mind

thus aligning and harmonizing mind

A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine

taught them the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel

he studied the art of power plants and medicine animals

As spiritual guides

Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism Nature Spirit thus aligning and harmonizing mindA dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including