“The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long term consequence. If there is still a vague and oppressive sense of guilt,… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have,… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
