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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/during-this-investigation-i-became-familiar-with-certain-limits-of/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

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> [The rational approach start 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, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/the-rational-approach-start-from-the-idea-that-everything-is/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

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## More by Jeremy Narby

> [This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/this-is-perhaps-one-of-the-most-important-things-i-learned-during/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/in-truth-ayahuasca-is-the-television-of-the-forest/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/when-i-started-reading-the-literature-of-molecular-biology-i-was/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [“During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/during-this-investigation-i-became-familiar-with-certain-limits-of/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [“Nonetheless, gazing out the train window at a random sample of the Western world, I could not avoid noticing a kind of separation between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/nonetheless-gazing-out-the-train-window-at-a-random-sample-of-the/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/if-one-stretches-out-the-dna-contained-in-the-nucleus-of-a-human-cell/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/according-to-eliade-the-shamanic-ladder-is-the-earliest-version-of/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/wisdom-requires-not-only-the-investigation-of-many-things-but/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/the-rational-approach-start-from-the-idea-that-everything-is/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/an-indigenous-culture-with-sufficient-territory-and-bilingual-and/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/the-global-network-of-dna-based-life-emits-ultra-weak-radio-waves/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> […there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/there-are-approximately-125-billion-miles-of-dna-in-a-human-body-your/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [“One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/one-thing-became-clear-as-i-thought-back-to-my-stay-in-quirishari/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [“All the peoples in the world who talk of a cosmic serpent have been saying as much for millennia. He had not seen it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/all-the-peoples-in-the-world-who-talk-of-a-cosmic-serpent-have-been/)

[Jeremy Narby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-narby/)

> [What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-narby/what-if-it-were-true-that-nature-speaks-in-signs-and-that-the-secret/)

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