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Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, Larry Harvey -- Evolver Intensives

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Greetings all,

I wanted to let the DMT community know about an exciting teleseminar event from Daniel Pinchbeck's websites Reality Sandwich and Evolver. These are basically a series of telephone interviews set up like conference calls, conducted by a host with guests from the psychedelic/visionary art world. After the interview, as an "audience" participant you can ask questions and interact with the guests.

The upcoming series is called "Evolver Intensives: Forging Community Through Visionary Art." You can find out more about it by visiting this page: http://www.evolverintensives.com/VisionaryArt/
The host for this series will be Erik Davis, and special guests include Alex Grey, and Burning Man founder Larry Harvey. The first of the 4 calls is on July 30th.

These teleseminars are essentially fundraisers to keep Reality Sandwich and Evolver operating for free.

Here's the announcement text:
How does visionary art help us create community? How can you express your creative truths and engage with visionary art to help evolve the world forward? Join acclaimed author Erik Davis for the Evolver Intensive teleseminar series: "Forging Community Through Visionary Art: How You Can Awaken Your Spirit and Your Connection To Others" -- 4 telephone interviews by Erik with featured guests: visionary painter Alex Grey, ritualist and filmmaker Antero Alli, neo-tribal festival producer Jen Zariat, and the legendary Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man. These calls will offer practical steps you can take today – on the personal, local and planetary levels – that you can integrate into your life so you can make a difference in our world. Not only will you participate in these calls, you'll have the chance to ask the questions that most challenge you. To learn more, just go to http://www.EvolverIntensives.com/VisionaryArt.
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Thanks for reading! Happy journeys!

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I've enjoyed reading his first book, breaking open the head. The second one, "2012 the return of..." left me with a dizzy head. So much incoherent stuff thrown together. I've also came to the conclusion, that pinchbeck is really into a certain kind of "lifestyle"...but I wouldn't go so far to call him a fraud.
 
Quite enjoyed the first book- although didn't seem to me to amount to much more than moderately skillfull hack journalism- hated the second. Seems to me he's found a niche market to harvest £££$$$. The Colin Wilson of the modern psychedelic movement.
 
Observant said:
The Traveler said:
I went to his seminar at the World Psychedelic Forum and really liked his lecture.
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So you been there too , cool! What a great time it was in Basel ...
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Oh yes it was. I learned a lot when I was over there. I enjoyed the speaker panels where the experts were answering questions from the public.

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Quite enjoyed the first book- although didn't seem to me to amount to much more than moderately skillfull hack journalism- hated the second. Seems to me he's found a niche market to harvest £££$$$. The Colin Wilson of the modern psychedelic movement.
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there is always that profit mark luring around the corner. I haven't read his books but I did enjoy his lecture.
 
Haven't read the first, the second really means a lot to me, I have been on a very very similar journey. Thanks for bring this to our attention, even if some people are ungrateful.
 
I though Pinchbeck's first book was very good. The second a major let down.

I was particularly disappointed with the way he completely dismissed the circlemakers claims that all crop circles are man made while swallowing the so called "experts" nonsense as this supported this own 2012 hypothesis. Its been proven time and again that the crop circle experts have no way of determining if a circle is man made or not as there are lots of cases of them proclaiming that a formation is the "genuine" article when in fact is was man made and there is film/photographic evidence to support this. If he'd done a little more research into the subject he would have found this out and then perhaps would have been a little less dismissive of the human circlemakers claims.

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Im actually half way through 2012 atm. Im really enjoying it, though he seems to use big words just for the sake of using big words imo. Ill have to check out breaking open the head if folks think its better than 2012, should be a good 'un!

Talking about the cropcircles, do you think their all man made then wikiwahwah? I dont know much about the subject tbh but in 2012 hes out looking for them and they come across some and he says its blatently obvious that the one they found was man made, ive seen some on tv and they were man made and it was pretty obvious, they just dont look as cool or precise.
 
I'm also enjoying 2012: TRoQ. Nothing absolutely groundbreaking, but a good read.

Edit: ITT, threadjacking. ;)
 
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Im actually half way through 2012 atm. Im really enjoying it, though he seems to use big words just for the sake of using big words imo. Ill have to check out breaking open the head if folks think its better than 2012, should be a good 'un!

Talking about the cropcircles, do you think their all man made then wikiwahwah? I dont know much about the subject tbh but in 2012 hes out looking for them and they come across some and he says its blatently obvious that the one they found was man made, ive seen some on tv and they were man made and it was pretty obvious, they just dont look as cool or precise.
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I think all the circles are man made - I've made a number myself. There maybe a few very simple circles created by the wind that started the whole thing off, but anything more complex than this is the work of humans. However, the motivation behind there creation is another matter entirely. I made a number of them in the UK for over 10 years and still can't fathom why I felt compelled to expend such energy on something that I would then go out of my way to deny I had anything to do with! There does seem to be a compulsion to create something that others regard as mysterious and inexplicable.

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