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Breaking Open the Head (Book)

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A 2002 memoir and cultural history by Daniel Pinchbeck, chronicling his own use of ayahuasca, ibogaine, and other entheogens and arguing for their reconsideration as legitimate tools for insight rather than purely recreational drugs.

Example: Widely credited as one of the books that helped bring psychedelics back into mainstream cultural conversation in the 2000s, well before the current wave of clinical research and executive-branch attention.