Primary Job Title Columnist Primary Organization 
Dazed & Confused
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Daniel Pinchbeck is the best-selling author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. His latest book, How Soon is Now?: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation, looks at the ecological crisis as a rite of passage or initiation for humanity and defines a
new post capitalist “operating system” for civilization.
Daniel has written for the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, Esquire, and other publications. He is a founder of evolver.net and the web magazine Reality Sandwich and was featured in the 2010 documentary 2012: Time for Change. He also directs the think tank, Center for Planetary Culture.
