Daniel Pinchbeck

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

— Daniel Pinchbeck

If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking,…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“From a shamanic perspective, the psychic blockade that prevents otherwise intelligent adults from considering the future of our world - our obvious…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

— Daniel Pinchbeck

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It…

— Daniel Pinchbeck