Daniel Pinchbeck

Open City features a dynamic mix of prominent writers and undiscovered aspirants, as well as lost treasures from writers of past eras. Including fiction, essays, poetry, and artwork by an exciting range of talents, Open City has presented new works by Michael Cunningham, Deborah Garrison, Rick Moody, David Foster Wallace, Geoffrey O'Brien, and previously unpublished work by Delmore Schwartz, Richa

Open City features fiction, poetry, and artwork from a dynamic range of voices -- from established writers such as Michael Cunningham, Irvine Welsh, and Mary Gaitskill, to emerging talents like Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, and David Berman, to classic voices from the past including Delmore Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Yates. Open City features writing and art preoccupied with the forces effe

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A 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.While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon,

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Open City continues to present new writing with a daring edge and a youthful glow, appealing to readers who want to know what’s next in contemporary literature. This special issue features fiction, essays, and artwork—all by poets. Each piece of prose will be accompanied by a selection of the writer’s poems. Contributors Deborah Garrison, Nick Tosches, Honor Moore, Rodney Jack, David Lehman, Jim H

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Open City Magazine, the best-selling literary journal since Granta, features a dynamic mix of prominent writers, undiscovered aspirants, and lost treasures from writers from past eras. Open City #19 features stories by Robert Bingham (the original, unpublished first chapter of his novel, Lightning on the Sun), Rick Rofihe, Cannon Thomas, Nick Tosches, Michael Sledge, Lewis Robinson, Deborah Shapir

Open City features today's best new fiction, poetry, and artwork -- by both emerging and established talents. Past issues have featured Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, acclaimed anthropologist Michael Taussig, and Irvine Welsh's debut U.S. publication. Deborah Garrison, Joyce Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, David Foster Wallace, Terry Southern, and Rick Moody have also graced Open City's pages.

Read Daniel Pinchbeck's posts on the Penguin BlogCross James Merrill, H. P. Lovecraft, and Carlos Castaneda -each imbued with a twenty-first-century aptitude for quantum theory and existential psychology-and you get the voice of Daniel Pinchbeck. And yet, nothing quite prepares us for the lucidity, rationale, and informed audacity of this seeker, skeptic, and cartographer of hidden realms.<b

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“Intelligent and accessible . . . A hip, urban aesthetic.” —Poets WritersA special issue of Open City featuring writing and artwork by an exciting array of alternative rock stars. A literary magazine of fiction, essays, and poetry, Open City has a youthful, adventurous spirit and an uncanny knack for finding vibrant and original voices. Each issue offers something

What is it that attracts shamans, mystics, and other visionaries to the realms of altered states? It is the understanding that some wisdom cannot be accessed through ordinary consciousness alone. On Reality 2.0, trailblazer of non-ordinary reality Daniel Pinchbeck shares a first-hand account of his quest for a "system upgrade" for human society. Listeners join this 21st-century explorer and philos

In this unsparing tour of the perils and promises of the current era, visionary author Daniel Pinchbeck helps us understand that we don't need to wait for the dawning of the next age to radically change our perspectives.In the years since his pioneering work 2012 , Daniel Pinchbeck has touched a legion of readers hungry for insight and guidance about new ways of living amid the crises

This is a literary and metaphysical epic that binds together the cosmological phenomena of our time, ranging from crop circles to quantum theory to the worldwide resurgence of shamanism, supporting the Mayan prophecy that the year 2012 will bring an unprecedented global shift.

Open City features a dynamic mix of prominent writers, undiscovered aspirants, and lost treasures from writers of past eras. Including fiction, essays, poetry, and artwork by an exciting range of talents, Open City has presented new works by Michael Cunningham, Deborah Garrison, Rick Moody, David Foster Wallace, Geoffrey O'Brien, Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, David Berman, and previously unpublished w

We are on the brink of an ecological mega-crisis threatening the future of life on earth and our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendants. Between a manifesto and a tactical plan of action, How Soon is Now? by radical futurist and philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck outlines a vision for a mass social movement that will address this crisis.Drawing on

Drawing on a huge range of resources and references Daniel Pinchbeck presents a compelling argument for the need for change on a global basis - it is only when we see ourselves as one planetary tribe that this change can occur. The central thesis is that humanity has self-willed the ecological crisis in order to bring about the necessary conditions for transcendence of our current state of being,

Ayahuasca is a sacred, psychoactive tea with a long history of ritual use among indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon. Made from the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of a shrub, ayahuasca is increasingly known as a powerful tool for personal transformation that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and a reconnection with the natural world.

Are we being observed and visited by alien beings from another world or perhaps another space-time dimension? Thousands upon thousands of accounts of UFOs and alien abductions suggest that something is happening that we do not yet understand. Recently, even mainstream media organ like The New York Times and The Washington Post have started to report on the bizarre sightings made by military pilots

In this essay, the celebrated counterculture thought leader Daniel Pinchbeck explores our current world situation through many lenses. He offers a geopolitical analysis, dives deep into popular conspiracy theories around the origins of the Coronavirus, as well as Qanon, the antivaxx movement, and the hidden intentions of Bill Gates. He proposes an occult and shamanic understanding that allows us t

One of the deepest questions we can ask What happens after we die? For the past centuries, with the rise of scientific materialism, the prevailing answer to this has Nothing. Our conscious self-awareness is simply an accident of evolution, arising from the increasing complexity of the physical brain. There can be no awareness outside of the brain. However, scientific discoveries of the 20th Centur