Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes

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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.

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  Dream, Reality, Doors

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.290, Penguin

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• Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

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  Hallucinations, Modern, Linear

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• In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

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  Culture, Path, Right Path

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• The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.

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  War, Responsibility, Technology

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• We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

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  Culture, Taste

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• The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?

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  Death, Sleep, Unity

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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.

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  Thinking, Media, Significant Things

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• Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

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  Jobs, Inspire, Want

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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.

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  Mother, Emotional, Fire

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• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

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  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press

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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?

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  Responsibility, Buddhism, Agency

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.280, Penguin

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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.

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  Media, Cynical, Subjectivity

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

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  Effort, Lasts, Century

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Comfort, Culture, Void

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.128, Three Rivers Press

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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.

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  Character, Play, Creative

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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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.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Immature

  Interview with Russell Brand, Graham Hancock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

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  Thinking, People, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.

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  Self, Grace, Ego

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.120, Penguin

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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.

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  Strong, Thinking, People

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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.

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  Spiritual, Cutting, Reality

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.125, Three Rivers Press

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

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  Culture, May, Neurosis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

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  Focus, Independence, Tasks

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.205, Penguin

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• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

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  Meaningful, Freedom, Real

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

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• Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change.".

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  Freedom, Men, Done

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.66, Penguin

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• People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.

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  Kids, Clothes, People

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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