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• I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have, if anything, anti-addictive properties. And all the evidence really points towards that. But you have the people who are running these drug rehab situations, they demonized all the drugs.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Running, Thinking, People

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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.

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  Thinking, Needs, Way

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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.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Ignorance, People, Tools

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• Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

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  Dream, Events, Chance

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.44, Penguin

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• If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.

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  Space, Growth, Fruition

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2014). “2012: The year of the Mayan prophecy”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.

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  Our World, Opposites, Stuff

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

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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.

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  Thinking, Planets, Get Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

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  Reflection, Ideas, Trying

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• 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.

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  Art, Home, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

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  Ideas, India, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

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  Mean, Growth, Different

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.176, Penguin

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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.

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  Tasks, Purpose, Degradation

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.100, Penguin

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• The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

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  Sadness, Past, Rocks

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.79, Three Rivers Press

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