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The Cracking Tower

A Strategy for Transcending 2012

Jim DeKorne

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English
North Atlantic Books,U.S.
15 July 2011
"End-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan ""long count"" calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers an arsenal of strategies to turn these fears into an opportunity for spiritual and personal growth.

Beginning with a lively memoir of the author's experiences in the '60s, the book goes on to explore apocalyptic thinking through perennial philosophy, shamanism, gnostic mysticism, the body as a vessel of consciousness (and death as ""an extended out-of-body experience""), and psychedelics. Shaping the discussion is the fascinating metaphor of the cracking tower, an apparatus for distilling gasoline, as a vehicle for distilling our awareness. Rather than speculating on what might occur in 2012, DeKorne proposes vigilance of a more introspective sort. ""The important thing,"" he says, ""is to ignore the finger and strive to comprehend the moon,"" to see what our apocalyptic tendencies reveal about ourselves."

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Imprint:   North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9781556438165
ISBN 10:   1556438168
Pages:   232
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jim DeKorne is the author of four books, including Psychedelic Shamanism, which has been translated into six different languages. He holds a master's degree in English from San Francisco State University, and he was the founding editor and publisher of The Entheogen Review. He was an active participant in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, the back-to-the-land and appropriate technology movements of the 1970s and '80s, and the psychedelic renaissance of the 1990s. Throughout his varied career history, he has been an epidemiologist, a professional photographer, an importer, a homesteader, a college English professor, an editor, and an author. He currently resides on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Reviews for The Cracking Tower: A Strategy for Transcending 2012

Jim DeKorne expertly weaves together diverse threads...into a coherent vision of the challenges and potential that inhabit our modern psyche. -Erowid The collection of sources, woven together by DeKorne's keen intellect, becomes, not so much eclectic, as a multifaceted view of a numinous path unfolding in a common language of the Perennial Philosophy. This is a good book, intellectually stimulating, with diverse and always relevant quotations. -Circles of Light This is an interesting philosophical exploration of two opposing views of the world- materialist vs. perennial. One holds that what you see is what you get, the other that there is more to life than meets the eye and that we are all a part of the divine being... If you are interested in philosophy and spirituality, you will find it a fascinating read. -My Spirit Radio


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