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Posted: **Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:56 pm**

via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/12/profile_of_psychedel.html">boingboing</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11217201/daniel_pinchbeck_and_the_new_psychedelic_elite/print">Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite</a> How a cynical son of beatnik parents combined drugs, the devil and the apocalypse into a modern movement VANESSA GRIGORIADIS It's midnight on a Sunday night, and Daniel Pinchbeck, a pop psychedelic author, is smoking a cigarette on the couch of a dramatically sparse apartment in Manhattan's East Village. An Austin Powers-like character with buckteeth, tangled hair and a pinched, nasal delivery, Pinchbeck, 40, does not exude cool, but he is well-known in New York as a philosopher and proponent of drugs not available at your corner dealer, which has made him quite popular indeed. It's been a busy weekend: Saturday afternoon with Sting at the Edvard Munch show at the Museum of Modern Art, Saturday night at a downtown rock show with Moby, and this evening visiting a bunch of people on dimethyltryptamine, considered the most potent hallucinogen on the planet. DMT, a harrowing seven-minute trip that feels like seven centuries, is Direct Mystical Transmission, says Pinchbeck -- Drastic Magical Transport. It is "the doorway you can step through to greet the beings who run the cosmic candy store," he has written. Smoking a bowl of it, he adds, tastes like "a shard of lawn furniture."<hr></blockquote> Pinchbeck's responses: http://people.tribe.net/daniel_pinchbeck/blog/6e5b54d2-2308-45bc-a14d-a032f559bcf4 http://people.tribe.net/daniel_pinchbeck/blog/c068f670-7e7a-4366-9784-acc4926f9a3b <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The article, despite its five-page length, is impressively shallow, almost ignoring the ideas in my new book entirely, to concentrate on semi-salacious details of my personal life. I learnt, to my surprise, that I have “buck teeth,” and some undefined similarity to Austin Powers. The article has that seamy tabloid vibe of scandal, sin, and shadowy disgrace. Perhaps the best thing about it is the Matt Mahurin illustration of me facing myself as forked-tongue serpent. The most frustrating aspect of the piece is the impression I get, while reading it, that most of my ideas (as well as salient details of my life) were carefully, almost meticulously, distorted or disconnected from each other so that they would seem unfounded and insignificant. There were crucial aspects of my thesis in “2012” that Vanessa seemed unable to understand – for instance, I explained to her over and over again the Calleman model which reveals the Mayan Calendar as a precision timing device for the development of consciousness on Earth, from more than 16 billion years ago to 2012, in a nine-stage process that accelerates by factors of twenty in relation to linear time. Clearly, she was too busy seeking out quotes from disaffected former lovers to follow such an argument.<hr></blockquote>

Posted: **Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:22 pm**

I remember that from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72; Thompson joked that Muskie had to be on it to be such a lame campaigner. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>After reading a book about the rare African root-bark iboga and its use as a heroin cure, he secured a magazine assignment to travel to the West African country of Gabon to eat it with the Bwiti tribe, who a botanist had told him initiated Westerners into the cosmic secrets of iboga to show them the "essence of love." In Gabon, the shrieking king of the Bwitis shoved Pinchbeck naked into a stream, covering him in red paste and clothing him in tanned animal skins, with a red feather for his hair. Served in a plantain, iboga tasted like sawdust mixed with battery acid, and the trip lasted thirty terrifying hours. The upside: The Bwiti shaman told him the spirit of his grandmother, a sadistic woman who had administered unwanted enemas to him as a child, had been banished from his life. It was she who had been stopping him from accessing the etheric plane that exists beyond our four dimensions.<hr></blockquote>

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:53 am**

Most of the knowledgeble people I know in the psychedelic community wouldn't anoint Pinchbeck as a "leader." He has nothing new or novel to say about psychedelics. He comes across as a newbie to entheogens, full of passion but without the integration that comes with experience and reflection. I listened to his talk from Burning Man several years ago, and it was a dreadful hodgepodge of new age beliefs and "oh wow!"-level philosophizing. I'm sure he's a decent, sincere guy, but as for being the spearhead of a psychedelic renaissance, I don't buy it. Lesson number 1 about psychedelic revelations -- question what the allies tell you, particularly if they say you're the incarnation of Quetzalcoatl. :-)

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:40 pm**

Mr. Pinchbeck's an odd one for sure. A friend of mine who attended Burning Man '05 told me he was trying to prevent the torching of the effigy and recruit a bunch of people to 'stay behind' (in the desert, of course...) so that they could claim it was a permanent ongoing event. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed and the man was burned on schedule. I sure hope he's not disinfo in the conscious/malicious sense, but at the very least I worry that his enthusiasm and recklessness with DMT and ayahuasca (not to mention big social movements like Burning Man) could, like with Tim Leary's involvement with LSD, backfire. This would serve to discredit the psychedelic movement which is now just beginning to recover research ground lost in the 60's and 70's as well as potentially bollux things up for alternative spirituality and culture. Of course, Tim was connected up with the CIA ('cause they had the good drugs) and got played...beware of strangers with iboga I guess...

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