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Book: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
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  1. Daniel Pinchbeck _ Breaking Open the Head: A

    I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else.
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  2. Daniel Pinchbeck _ Breaking Open the Head: A

    As I wandered the streets in a desolate funk, I would ask myself the impossible, the embarrassing, the ultimate childish question of Why? - Why this city? Why this life? Why anything? Of course I knew that "why" was a question you were supposed to stop asking around the age of ten but I couldn't free myself from it.
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  3. Daniel Pinchbeck _ Breaking Open the Head: A

    The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.
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  4. Daniel Pinchbeck _ Breaking Open the Head: A

    In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path."
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