I’ll be adding books I’m read­ing, read and rec­om­mend here.

Break­ing Open the Head: A Psy­che­delic Jour­ney into the Heart of Con­tem­po­rary Shaman­ism
by Daniel Pinchbeck

A first hand account of the world of psy­chdelic sub­stances today. Daniel Pinch­beck is the author of the best-selling book, 2012: The Return of Quet­zal­coatl, and also the edi­tor of the pop­u­lar post-modernist web-zine, Real­ity Sand­wich. Chart­ing his grad­ual trans­for­ma­tion from a cyn­i­cal New York lit­ter­a­teur to psy­che­delic acolyte, Pinch­beck uses ele­ments of trav­el­ogue, mem­oir, “entheob­otany” (“the study of god-containing plants”) and his­tor­i­cal research to ask why these “door­ways of the mind” have been uncer­e­mo­ni­ously sealed, shar­ing Wal­ter Benjamin’s melan­choly about the exas­per­at­ing nature of con­sumerism: “We live in a cul­ture where every­thing tastes good but noth­ing sat­is­fies.” Pinch­beck trav­els the earth in search of spir­i­tual awak­en­ing through trip­ping, from Gabon to the Nevada desert.

Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records