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 PinchbeckMaybe 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 PinchbeckA lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.
Daniel PinchbeckIf 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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