An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“Shamanism resembles an academic discipline (such as anthropology or molecular biology); with its practitioners, fundamental researchers, specialists, and schools of thought it is a way of apprehending the world that evolves constantly. One thing is certain: Both indigenous and mestizo… — 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
“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual,… — 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… — 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
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
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
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery. — Jeremy Narby Copy Share
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
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
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
…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
“One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share
“All the peoples in the world who talk of a cosmic serpent have been saying as much for millennia. He had not seen it… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share
