Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes

United States, Author
June 15, 1966

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author living in New York's East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism , 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl , and Notes from the Edge Times . He is a co-founder of the web magazine, Reality Sandwich, and Evolver.net, and edited the publishing imprint, Evolver Editions, with North Atlantic Books. He was featured in the 2010 documentary, 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films. He is the founder of the think tank, Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki.

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

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

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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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- Mission
- Nobody
- Wants
We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

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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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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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- People
- Thinking
- Strong