The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams. — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary;… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual, as my investigation had led me to consider that DNA and its cellular machinery truly were an extremely sophisticated technology of cosmic origin. But as I pored over thousands of pages of biological texts, I discovered… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share
“During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity and the association of contraries from it's field of vision...The rational approach starts from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong,… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share
“Nonetheless, gazing out the train window at a random sample of the Western world, I could not avoid noticing a kind of separation between… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery. — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
…there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
