31 Quotes by Daniel Pinchbeck

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.