In the same introduction he asks a question to the reader, which to me sums up the entire story:"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls."
For over 30 years, a tremendous force of cultural repression has been exerted (by law) on the subject of psychodelics.......Is it possible that we have demonized hallucinogens because we fear the contents of our own mind?"
Let's see if the man is at all paranoid.
The following is the first paragraph in he introduction of 2012: The Return of Quetzatcoatl.
I dare you the reader to click any link to see for yourself if there is truth to the words of Daniel Pinchbeck.
Excerpt from the book:
Our civilization is on a path of ever-increasing acceleration, but what are we rushing toward?
Anxieties are multiplying.
The environment is disintegrating.
The heat is rising as the ozone layer thins.
Jihad faces off against McWorld in senseless wars and televised atrocities.
Populations are displaced as cities disappear beneath toxic flood tides. (in Canada you say where are the fish going...do you need money that much pilgrim.......)
Rogue nations stockpile nuclear arsenals.
Presidents assure us they will "make the pie(not a typo) higher," while increasing inequity and rubber-stamping torture.
Military analysts prepare for resource wars fought over water and grain;
indigenous prophecies (just search this page for mesoamerican prophecy or polar shift) point to an imminent polar reversal that will wipe our hard drives clean (kinda makes me wonder why i do this).
Technology advances according to Moore's Law,
It's unforseen consequences following Murphy's Law.
New age cults scan the skies for extraterrestrial apparitions.
Old Age religions anticipate Armageddon.
The linear progress and "end of history" once promised by liberal theorists seem a hallucinatory figment of another reality.
Activists and radicals, horrified by the scorched-earth effects of globalization, insist "another world is possible."
But few people have any idea of what that world would be.
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This book advances a radical theory: that human.........and the book, all 400 pages of it go to show that Daniel Pinchbeck has been thinking about the meaning of life for a very, very long time.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worst....
20 ways the world could end soon
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