Daniel Pinchbeck…is rapidly becoming our generation’s foremost proponent of controlled psychedelic experimentation. — The Nation


Pinchbeck presents the most fascinating publishing oddity of the season. In almost 400 pages of handsome prose, the author riffs on Einstein, Nietzsche, Stonehenge, Hopi mythology, and alternate states of consciousness. — Time Out New York


Pinchbeck’s exotic epic is a paradigm-buster capable of forcing the most cynical reader outside her comfort zone. — Publishers Weekly


In 2012, his part memoir, part anthropological journey through many things spiritual, metaphysical, and just plain eerie, Pinchbeck illuminates not the world’s end but the many ways in which our social structures are disintegrating.…Into 2012 Pinchbeck fits Jung, crop circles, Martin Heidegger’s critique of technology, the ecological theories of Rudolf Steiner, the parables of Christ, Jared Diamond’s Collapse, and even the confessions of Whitley Strieber…a box of treasures. — LA Weekly


A ride worth taking, partly for the wild entertainment value but also because the book is a document with genuine sociopolitical relevance.…Pinchbeck delivers his eco-political message in the form of a syncretic mad masterpiece. — Reason Magazine