Daniel Pinchbeck quotes

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies. (Daniel Pinchbeck)
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void. View quote
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My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities. View quote
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The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality. View quote
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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. View quote
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According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world? View quote
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Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means. View quote
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Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open. View quote
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Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. View quote
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In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path. View quote
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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. (Daniel Pinchbeck)
Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us. View quote
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I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet. View quote
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I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and now something else has to emerge. We have to be the ones. We can't wait around. Nobody else is going to do it for us. We have to be the ones who create that new emerging system. View quote
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Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother's milk, objects for emotional bonds. View quote
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I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way. View quote
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Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Daniel Pinchbeck)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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