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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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ignorance, People, Tools

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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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  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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• 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?

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Responsibility, Buddhism, Agency

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

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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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• 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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Media, Cynical, Subjectivity

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

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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

  Thinking, Needs, Way

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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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Art, Home, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Planets, Get Away

  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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, India, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

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

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Mean, Growth, Different

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

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