Daniel Pinchbeck is a New Yorker born of artistic parents. He not only writes of Shamanism but like Terrence McKenna whom he often mentions in his books, he has taken the trip into the visionary realm of the Shamen. He has travelled extensively both in the physical world and in the metaphysical realm while researching the subjects of his books. He often quotes great thinkers such as Jung, or others to illustrate his ideas.
The Maya civilization and the Pantheon of Gods that gave them character is a main theme in Daniel Pinchbecks works. If you like mythical figures that conjure up magic then you will like Pinchbeck's stories. He also tends to get deep into the occult at times presenting daemons and djinns and other dark spiritual matters. As i was reading 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl the other night i experienced what i believe is something totally related to the 2012 consciousness prophecies. Daniel Pinchbeck was telling me, through his brilliant story telling way, of a time when he had travelled to an outer dimension and met up with such daemons. When he returned from his trip it took him several months to work out his emotions. In his words it was as though the spirits had decided to stay with him even against his will. I put down the book and went to bed and my entire night was filled with lucid dreams, the type of dreams that you wake up from and return to when you fall back asleep. Was i somehow transcending into the crevisses of Pinchbeck's subconscience and into the realm of these daemons through some timeless reality?
Who knows!!!
Daniel Pinchbeck admits to having used psychedelic drugs to induce these altered states of mind. I read somewhere that there are several ways to entrain the brain to get the same results. Supposedly meditation is one way, new age binaural entrainment may be another, hypnosis might do it, and drugs, while not the safest method certainly achieves the desired effects. I may have gone there once while on Salvya divinorum myself and it wasn't a pleasant trip. Daniel Pinchbeck really relates the drug experiment into the mystic world of the Shaman in an earlier book called "A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of CONTEMPORARY SHAMANISM."
While reading Pinchbeck's books i couldn't help but thinking of the warnings that come from playing around with occult matters. Any one who has ever touched a Ouija board will know what i mean. This cosmic energy is powerful and in the hands of amateur mystics, occultism can be very dangerous to the self and to others. In that sense i totally understand why religions such has Christianity defend their parishioners from practicing occultism. I would imagine that if a survey was taken of all Christian Priest that the results would indicate that a majority of them had very high degrees of extra sensory perception. In my opinion the priest class should be mediums and psychics. It is their job to understand the spirit, to communicate with the spirit and to bring that knowledge into the life of their followers. Good exorcists certainly do it. The spirit world is both black and white. Pinchbeck tells us in his books about Quetzalcoatl, the plummed serpent lord. Quetzatcoatl is a white snake so to say. Quetzalcoatl is a sorcerer of white magic. His antithesis is Tezcatlicopa and this smoking mirror lord is a sorcerer of the dark world and brings forth the worst in people and things through the divination of black magic.
Pinchbeck is certainly well versed in these matters. I'm not certain that he totally understands what 2012 is and isn't but i like his books.
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