BREAKING OPEN THE HEAD   Wednesday 26 February, 7pm Tickets £6 Booking: 0207 833 3644   Until three years ago, Daniel Pinchbeck was a successful, if cynical, member of New York's hipster literary elite. Then something happened...   This month sees the publication of Daniel's remarkable book, Breaking Open the Head, in which he describes his rediscovery of hallucinogenic drugs and subsequent transformation into a born again, shamanic advocate of a new cosmic consciousness. Combining hefty doses of DMT, Ibogaine and even more potent substances with the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Terrence McKenna, Rudolph Steiner and a host of others, Breaking Open the Head is a psychedelic odyssey into the contemporary unconscious, a cosmic trigger for the 21st century.   DANIEL PINCHBECK will be here in person to talk about his experiences.   Panel Discussion: PSYCHEDELICS & MYSTICISM IN THE 21st CENTURY   Featuring MIKE JAY, GARY LACHMAN and DANIEL PINCHBECK.   Mike Jay is the author of Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the 19th Century and the upcoming The Airloom Gang.   Gary Lachman is the author of Turn off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius and the upcoming Secret History of Consciousness.   Location: Events held at: The Horse Hospital Colonnade, Bloomsbury London WC1 Tube: Russell Square Buses: 59, 68, 91, 168, 188 The venue has a bar.   top