This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just… — Jeremy Narby Believe 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… — Jeremy Narby Biology Copy Share Image
“During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity… — Jeremy Narby Dreams Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, gazing out the train window at a random sample of the Western world, I could not avoid noticing a kind of… — Jeremy Narby Fitness 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… — Jeremy Narby Atoms 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… — Jeremy Narby Axes Copy Share Image
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery. — Jeremy Narby Contemplation 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… — Jeremy Narby Admitting 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… — Jeremy Narby Burning 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… — Jeremy Narby Dna Copy Share Image
.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around… — Jeremy Narby Billions Copy Share Image
“One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants'… — Jeremy Narby Doubt Copy Share Image
“All the peoples in the world who talk of a cosmic serpent have been saying as much for millennia. He had not… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities… — Jeremy Narby Form 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… — Jeremy Narby Discipline Copy Share Image
