Jeremy Narby Quotes
- In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.
- According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of…
- 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 wide.…
- What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or…
- 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…
- This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and…
- 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,…
- Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.