For example, the discovery of LSD appeared in tandem with the spread of National Socialism and the beginnings of the Manhattan Project; the popularization of DMT — a psychoactive chemical thought to be released by the pineal gland at the time of death, which leads to out-of-body experiences in parallel worlds — showed up during the early days of Web 1.0, inspiring the pioneers who developed the fractal universe of digital communications. Mainstream culture has interpreted 2012 as the coming of the apocalypse, which made it easy to dismiss and ridicule. artwork by DAVID SHERRY Is there something we can do about it? Created with Sketch. You have to see it as an evolutionary advance: we’ve created artificial life forms out of brand insignia, financial data, and legal codes, which have been unleashed via an artificial game that we’ve created through the stock market. I propose that it’s time for us to put our life energy into our media genius, our technical capacity, and our communication skills to protect indigenous people and our natural resources, and to construct an alternative system for communities to share power more equitably. June 15, 1966 (age 54) Birthplace . One that is not defined by the brands you wear or your musical taste, but instead by the consequences of your actions. View the profiles of people named Daniel Pinchbeck. Albert Hoffman was a chemist for Sandoz, living in Basel, Switzerland. So it’s not the corporation’s fault, it’s our fault, as the creators of the game system. Is this the end of the world? Daniel’s books are Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of … by Olivier Zahm and Stéphane Feugère with a portfolio by Dominique Nabokov, Who’s the Illegal Alien Pilgrim? Download Audiobooks by Daniel Pinchbeck to your device. The acclaimed metaphysical epic that binds together the cosmological phenomena of our time, ranging from crop circles to quantum theory to the resurgence of psychedelic drugs, to support the contention of the Mayan calendar that the year 2012 portends a global shift-in consciousness, culture, and way of living-of unprecedented consequence.

Read Daniel Pinchbeck''s … One of my resolutions for the upcoming Jupiter/Saturn conjunction and Solstice: To criticize in a more loving, empathic, and generous manner. From his experiences, Pinchbeck is convinced that reality is “increasingly malleable, responsive to psychic energy and conscious intention.” With this knowledge, he continued his line of inquiry by exploring Mayan prophecies about the year 2012 being a time of radical transformation for the planet. Today, as we approach a point of no return in our destruction of the environment, there arises a growing popularity of ayahuasca, which reveals the interconnectivity of life and the importance of nature. I don’t claim that I am this or that. In my twenties, I enjoyed writing book reviews and art criticism for magazines. Spearheading this movement is Daniel Pinchbeck, a New York based writer whose alchemist ancestor discovered the compound — and came up with the formal terminology — of “Fool’s Gold.” However, unlike Occupy, and taking inspiration from alchemist philosophy, Pinchbeck believes our economic system and corporations — the poisons — we have created have the potential to act as remedies to the chaos they have contributed to our planet today. DANIEL PINCHBECK — While much of the book is carefully reasoned, 2012 also has a prophetic aspect. by Paul McCarthy, René Burri In a conversation on DMT, Ancient Civilizations, and Other Dimensions at The Assemblage John Street, authors Graham Hancock and Daniel Pinchbeck explore whether other physical entities run into the same kinds of problems with consciousness as humans do. So our language has this capacity, and the more we can use it with exactitude and clarity, the more it manifests the capacity that is built into it, as techniques like neurolinguistic programming explore. Daniel was featured in a documentary 2012: Time For Change. XERXES COOK — Many ancient civilizations kept, and indeed many societies today still keep, calendars that are different from those used in the West. By studying the patterns of the stars and correlating it with this mathematical model of development and change, the Maya foresaw that our time would see a far-reaching transformation of humanity and the earth. I was a secular materialist, but I began to wonder, how did I really know that was the case, and could I make an inquiry into that? Specifically, that fantasy has been transferred into technology, in what’s often called the Singularity, which is a movement that has become the dominant religious faith of technologists in Silicon Valley and those types of people. This very well could be connected to the increasing solar flares in the sun cycle, which seems to be one reason the Maya pointed to this time — as we’re now having the most intense solar cycle we’ve ever had and the Earth’s electromagnetic field has weakened dramatically. About Daniel Pinchbeck From Daniel Pinchbeck’s Website I am the author of Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books, 2002), 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), Notes from the Edge Times(Tarcher/Penguin, 2010), and How Soon Is Now (Watkins, 2017). Following that assumption, you can’t really care all that much about the environment or the future, because you don’t have an investment in anything but getting the most you can from your moment. DANIEL PINCHBECK — Scientists now propose that the Earth is a living entity, a kind of sentient being, as James Lovelock described the atmosphere in his Gaia hypothesis. I have been having so much fun reviewing this material and making new discoveries. You can replay our interview here. Words are powerful, magical instruments through which we create possibilities — or limit ourselves, if we are not careful. by Miguel Calderon, Stockholm Psychology As a journalist I could also write articles about it. When I came to that realization, I recalled my psychedelic experiences in college as the most profound tools that suggested or pointed toward other aspects of reality, other potencies of being and experience. He is a co-founder of the web magazine, Reality Sandwich, and Evolver.net, and edited the publishing imprint, Evolver Editions, with North Atlantic Books. “There’s a birthing process here for us to reach the next level as a species,” Pinchbeck told me by phone. Nobody anticipated how quickly we would develop this global nervous system of communications infrastructure. Born in 1966 to a painter father and a mother who dated Jack Kerouac at the time of On The Road, Pinchbeck’s existential crisis took him to Africa, the Amazon and across North America, living with tribes and alternate communities to experiment with their psychedelic plant sacraments and be initiated into shamanic methods of understanding the world. While we can’t just wish away the reality that surrounds us, I feel it’s true that our thoughts and our use of language co-create our reality. So if consciousness evolves, the process could be akin to the fetal development leading to birth — fetal processes are exquisitely timed, so during their development, different chemical signals have to be released at precise intervals to bring the developing fetus along. 32:50 After reviewing Daniel’s experiences at Burning Man, and how they can shed some light onto the malleability of human nature, Greg and Pinchbeck pivot to discuss another topic covered in his book: his noble goal “to influence the influencers”.Daniel reflects on his potential impact on people like Russell Brand and his experience charting a copter to view crop … by Paola Kudacki, Dustin Dollin What then inspired you to travel around the world, live with indigenous American and African tribes, and experiment with their psychedelic plant sacraments? Daniel Pinchbeck, author and co-founder of mindfulness website Evolver, thinks so.