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The Return of Quetzalcoatl
Tarcher
May 2006
On Sale: May 4, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 1585424838
EAN: 9781585424832
Hardcover
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Science Fiction
Cross James Merrill, H. P. Lovecraft, and Carlos Castaneda
-each imbued with a twenty-first-century aptitude for
quantum theory and existential psychology-and you get the
voice of Daniel Pinchbeck. And yet, nothing quite prepares
us for the lucidity, rationale, and informed audacity of
this seeker, skeptic, and cartographer of hidden realms. Throughout the 1990s, Pinchbeck had been a member of New
York's literary select. He wrote for publications such as
The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar.
His first book, Breaking Open the Head, was heralded as the
most significant on psychedelic experimentation since the
work of Terence McKenna. But slowly something happened: Rather than writing from a
journalistic remove, Pinchbeck-his literary powers at their
peak-began to participate in the shamanic and metaphysical
belief systems he was encountering. As his psyche and body
opened to new experience, disparate threads and occurrences
made sense like never before: Humanity, every sign pointed,
is precariously balanced between greater self-potential and
environmental disaster. The Mayan calendar's "end date" of
2012 seems to define our present age: It heralds the end of
one way of existence and the return of another, in which the
serpent god Quetzalcoatl reigns anew, bringing with him an
unimaginably ancient-yet, to us, wholly new-way of living. A result not just of study but also of participation, 2012
tells the tale of a single man in whose trials we ultimately
recognize our own hopes and anxieties about modern life.
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