Dna Quote 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;…

— Jeremy Narby

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jeremy Narby

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jeremy Narby