"Prophet Motive" -- The New Exclusive Monthly Column by Author Daniel Pinchbeck
Critically acclaimed author Daniel Pinchbeck has just debuted "Prophet Motive," a new exclusive monthly column for the Conscious Enlightenment Publishing family of magazines, which includes Conscious Choice (Chi), Whole Life Times (LA), Common Ground (SF), Seattle's Conscious Choice and ConsciousChoice.com.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 14, 2007 -- Critically acclaimed author Daniel Pinchbeck has just debuted "Prophet Motive," a new exclusive monthly column for the Conscious Enlightenment Publishing family of magazines, which includes Conscious Choice, Whole Life Times, Common Ground, Seattle's Conscious Choice and www.ConsciousChoice.com.
In "Prophet Motive," Pinchbeck will riff on the wide scale transformation of culture and evolution and expansion of consciousness that characterizes the times we live in. He will explore the exploding "LOHAS" (Lifestyles of Health & Sustainability) zeitgeist which provides him with a variety of topics that cover the artistic, cultural, historical, and socio-economic trends and transformations taking place today.
Pinchbeck's pedigree is profound. He has deep personal roots in the New York counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s. His father was an abstract painter, and his mother, Joyce Johnson, was a member of the Beat Generation and former partner of Jack Kerouac. He was a founder of the 1990s literary magazine Open City with fellow writers Thomas Beller and Robert Bingham. He has written features for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and many others. In 1994, he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of "Thirty Under Thirty" destined to change our culture. He lives in New York's East Village.
A profound spiritual crisis in his late twenties led Pinchbeck to the study of shamanism. His first book, Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002), recounted his personal initiation into several tribal cultures that continue to use shamanic plants in their rituals. Without rejecting modernity, Pinchbeck became convinced of the legitimacy of the shamanic and mystical worldview held by indigenous peoples around the world.
But this brought up troubling questions: If the modern West, in its pursuit of rational science and materialism, had rejected crucially important aspects of reality, what did this say about our society, and its immediate future?
His new book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), chronicles Pinchbeck's journey to answer these questions, from Stonehenge to Burning Man to the Hopi Indians in New Mexico. In it, he unifies the ideas of a large number of writers, philosophers, and physicists to offer a new paradigm for understanding our time. 2012 is an unusually elegant, critical and adventurous inquiry into controversial possibilities and radical ideas, as well as a pop phenomenon. Filmmaker David Lynch calls it a "great book," and Sting describes it as "a dazzling kaleidoscopic journey through the quixotic hinterlands of consciousness." Since its release, Pinchbeck has been profiled in Rolling Stone, interviewed on The Colbert Report, and tagged in The Washington Post's year-end "hot list."
"Prophet Motive" picks up where 2012 left off, continuing his trenchant analysis of our particular time and place in history, and grappling with some of the most difficult questions of the day: What global and personal transformations are facing us right now, and how can we successfully navigate them? Despite climate change and rampant militarism, is it possible that humanity will evolve to a higher state of awareness? What is the meaning and purpose of the synchronicities and coincidences occurring everywhere these days? You haven't really thought about your world until you've seen it through the eyes and mind of Daniel Pinchbeck.
"Prophet Motive" is available monthly in each print market and online. See www.ConsciousChoice.com for more.
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