I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify… — 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
