4 Quotes & Sayings By Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck is a writer, speaker and teacher who has been exploring the world of consciousness, psychedelics and shamanism for over twenty years. He is the author of five books, including The Death of Money, The Secret Cosmic Game and The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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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. Daniel Pinchbeck
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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
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The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long term consequence. If there is still a vague and oppressive sense of guilt, of wrongness and imbalance, this gnawing guilt spurs capitalism on to greater acts of consumption, more .. Read moreviolent attempts to subjugate nature, more totalizing efforts to create distractions. To the "rational materialist" mind, death is the end of everything; this thought feeds its rage against nature, which has placed it in this position of despair. . Daniel Pinchbeck