Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.
If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.
Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.
The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.
Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.
I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.
I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.
Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.
I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were the only way I could have cracked open my own spirit in a way.
Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.