Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

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" ... On one level, [Pinchbeck] tells of encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, highlighting such thinkers and seekers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, as well as a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemkists, psychonauts, and philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation into these outlaw compounds. ..."--Back cover