Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite -- Updated with Full Rolling Stone Article

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Article "Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite"  full aticle from Rolling Stone

"Rolling Stone: Douglas Rushkoff & Richard Metzger On Daniel Pinchbeck"

Boing Boing posted about the Pichbeck article on September 12th here

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Commentary about the article in PopOcculture Blog (where I found out about the article)

In Yiddish, there is a word that is accurately descriptive of of the contemporary enthogen crowd -- meshugana. I won't try for an exact translation for the word but approximately it implies a whacked out craziness.

This is not to say that this is a new phenomenon. The Sixties had their noted meshunganas. In the Nineties, the  psychedelic movement was dominated by the rants and ramblings of the late and lauded Terence Mckenna. Seeing McKenna's success, new mehsungana candidates are always running for the top spot on the entheogenic ticket. The latest is the topic of the links at the top of the post.

This is not to say that I am entirely free of the meshungana syndrome. In fact my Jewish mother is fond of using the term to describe my hippie youth. Having been through all the craziness and transcendence that the counterculture could throw at me, I appreciate the islands of sanity that poke out of the sea of silliness.