When Plants Dream with Daniel Pinchbeck

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Join Stephen Gray and myself, Marc L Caron as we speak with author and speaker, Daniel Pinchbeck about his new book, co-written with Sophia Rokhlin, “When Plants Dream”. When Plants Dream explores the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental impacts of ayahuasca’s growing popularity, and the evolution of ayahuasca shamanism beyond the Amazon.

Pychoactive plants are met with intrigue and shrouded in controversy and are a heated subject of debate in the modern era. This is no less true for ayahuasca – a sacred, psychoactive tea with a long history of ritual use by communities of the Upper Amazon.  Made from a vine and the leaves of a shrub, ayahuasca is increasingly known as a powerful tool for personal transformation, that more and more Westerners flock to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world.

Known for its induction of visionary episodes, the use of ayahuasca is suppressed by governments around the world. However, recent scientific discoveries reveal its medicinal qualities — for example, it is being considered as a potential aid for the growing epidemic of depression, PTSD and eating disorders. These findings beg the question: what does the future hold for this psychoactive sacrament?

Daniel and Sophia team up to tell one story of ayahuasca’s journey around the world.

When Plants Dream covers:

• The background: What it is, where it is found, and its cultural origins
• The evolving role of ayahuasca in Amazonian and Western cultures
• The medicinal plants of the Amazon, looking particularly at the ingredients in ayahuasca and their therapeutic qualities
• How ayahuasca is perceived and used today, covering law, the war on drugs, media and money.
• Lastly, Pinchbeck and Rokhlin question the future of ayahuasca.

 

About the Authors

Daniel Pinchbeck is the bestselling author of of Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books, 2002), 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), and Notes from the Edge Times (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010). My new book, How Soon Is Now, comes out in Februrary, 2017. Featuring a preface from Sting and an introduction from Russell Brand, How Soon Is Now? looks at the ecological crisis as a rite of passage or initiation for humanity and proposes a “blueprint for the future” – how we must redesign our technical and social systems to avert the worst consequences of ecological collapse.

He co-founded the web magazine Reality Sandwich and the online platform Evolver.net. His essays and articles have appeared in a vast range of publications, including The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and ArtForum, and he has been a columnist for Dazed & Confused.

According to author John Perkins, “Daniel Pinchbeck’s life is the hero’s journey. Like Homer’s Odyssey, How Soon Is Now is a song of redemption for a world torn apart by the monsters of our own creation. We’ve dreamed a world that is consuming itself into extinction. Pinchbeck offers us a new dream and in doing so takes us on a powerful, magical voyage into balance and sanity.” Please join the HyLo forum to discuss the ideas presented in this book, and take action around them.

I was executive director of the think tank, Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki. My essays and articles have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, ArtForum, The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice and many other publications. I have written columns for Conscious Living and Dazed & Confused. 

My life and work were featured in the 2010 documentary, 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films. Amorim and I also produced a series of short animated films, PostModernTimes.

In 2007, he launched the web magazine Reality Sandwich and co-founded Evolver.net with Ken Jordan, Michael Robinson, and Talat Phillips. Evolver includes Evolver Learning Labs, our webinar platform, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen, a retail and event space in downtown Manhattan. He also edited the publishing imprint, Evolver Editions, with North Atlantic Books, publishing Charles Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics and Jose Arguelles’ Manifesto for the Noosphere, among other books.

Daniel has also have been a speaker at conferences around the world. These have included DazedFest in London, Horizons in New York, Breaking Convention in London, Distortion in Copenhagen, La Callaca TedX in San Miguel del Allende, the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, and Summit Series in Utah. I also give talks at many festivals, such as Burning Man, Boom in Portugal, Ozora in Hungary, Rainbow Serpent in Australia, and Lightning in a Bottle in California. I have been interviewed by The Colbert Report, Coast to Coast AM, The History Channel, Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country, BrandX with Russell Brand, Interview Magazine, Purple, and many other places.

For More about Daniel visit: http://www.pinchbeck.io

Sophia Rokhlin is an anthropologist and nonprofit organizer working with human and environmental rights organizations. She coordinates a permaculture program with the Chaikuni Institute and directs the regenerative ayahuasca initiative at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon.

 

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