Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck is the author 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). His newest book, How Soon is Now (2017), explores 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 was executive director of the think tank, Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki. His 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. He has have written columns for Conscious Living and Dazed & Confused.

Daniel Pinchbeck in Kosmos

Field Notes on Mind, Matter, and Machine

In his personal report from Deep Tech Week, Daniel Pinchbeck outlines emerging theories at the intersection of consciousness and technology—from quantum microtubules to cyber-animism. Engaging thinkers like Hameroff, Bach, and Theise, he traces a shifting paradigm where spirituality and science begin to speak a common, if uncanny, language.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 3

The Deschooling Dialogues | Ayahuasca and Other Pathways of Perception

Daniel | Since I started this whole journey...it's felt to me that there is the potential that we, in this lifetime, can somehow make a kind of quantum, mutational leap into another dimensional realization.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2

The Sun of Darkness

The center and the periphery are changing places. This is part of a larger epochal shift that we can best understand through a mythological and cosmological lens.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,