High Times Greats: Breaking Open The World With Daniel Pinchbeck

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The Mayans were really, really obsessed with time on a level that no other civilization has been, and archaeologists have had a hard time figuring out what that obsession means. In his first book, Breaking Open The Head, best-selling author Daniel Pinchbeck examined the world within through the use of sacramental drugs. We may be living in a very different kind of world at that point, on a lot of levels. For the July, 2006 issue of High Times, Elise McDonough interviewed Daniel Pinchbeck, who turns 55 years old on June 15. But that’s kind of intangible to me.

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For the July, 2006 issue of High Times, Elise McDonough interviewed Daniel Pinchbeck, who turns 55 years old on June 15.

The end draws near, and many of us embedded in the counterculture are gripped with a sense of urgency about our political, social and environmental future. Whether confronting climate change, the quagmire in Iraq or the erosion of civil liberties, few activists foresee a widespread transformation in consciousness just around the corner.

But courtesy of a little DMT and an all-but-forgotten Mayan prophecy—and continuing in the tradition of Terence...

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