This book was recommended to me by a client of mine, after I told her about the adventure in Peru that I was about to go on. In "Breaking Open the Head", Pinchbeck delves into various psychedelics, both exploring them through great thinkers and seekers such as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin and Terence McKenna, as well as his own personal explorations into other dimensions made available through these medicinal plants and drugs.
Psychedelics are feared in North America - we are closed to the idea that any healing can take place through any alternative means, such as ayahuascha and iboga, which are used in tribal cultures around the world because of their visionary compounds.
Pinchbeck explores worlds through the use of the two medicinal plants mentioned above, but also of mushrooms, and a variety of other compounds. What opened up to him was worlds he didn't know existed, and he makes valid arguments about the validity and existence of these other worlds.
My own adventure with ayahuascha changed my life - it made available to be healing that I didn't know was possible, and that I have spent many years striving for. Aya showed me how important love is, both of self and of life, it made forgiveness a priority and brought clarity to my spirit. Each person's experience with the medicine is different, and the experience changes each time you use it, but I am grateful to have found the beauty of the healing vines.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book, and suggest you give yourself the time and space you need to read it, because it's a lot to absorb.
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