Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism Nature Spirit Safe for use with cone

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A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine

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Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism Nature Spirit Safe for use with coneA dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including