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“The Earthkeepers believe that the world is real, but only because we've dreamed it into being. But dreaming requires an act of courage, for when we lack it, we have to settle for the world that's being created by our culture or by our genes - we feel we have to settle for the nightmare. To dream courageously, we must be willing to use our hearts.”

Book:Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being

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Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being

This book delves into the ancient practice of shamanic dreaming, discussing how shamans use their dreams to envision and manifest changes in the physical world. It examines the cultural significance of dreaming in various societies and the potential impact of these practices on personal and collective transformation. more

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Alberto Villoldo

Alberto Villoldo is a renowned author born on May 28, 1949. His works primarily focus on areas such as spiritual growth, ancient wisdom, and human potential. more

“It is one thing to explain the causal origins of thinking, as science commendably does; it is an entirely different thing to conflate thinking in its formal or rule-governed dimension with its evolutionary genesis. Being conditioned is not the same as being constituted. Such a conflation not only sophistically elides the distinction between the substantive and the formal, it also falls victim to a dogmatic metaphysics that is impulsively blind to its own epistemological and methodological bases qua origins. It is this genetic fallacy that sanctions the demotion of general intelligence as qualitatively distinct to a mere quantitative account of intelligent behaviours prevalent in nature. It should not come as a any surprise that this is exactly the jaded gesture of antihumanism upon whose shoddy pillars today's discourse of posthumanism supports its case. Talk of thinking forests, rocks, worn shoes, and ethereal beings goes hand in hand with the cult of technological singularity, musings on Skynet or the Market as speculative posthuman intelligence, and computers endowed with intellectual intuition. And again, by now it should have become obvious that, despite the seeming antagonism between these two camps - one promoting the so-called egalitarianism of going beyond human conditions by dispensing with the rational resources of critique, the other advancing the speculative aspects of posthuman supremacy on the grounds of the technological overcoming of the human condition - they both in fact belong to the arsenal of today's neoliberal capitalism in its full-on assault on any account of intelligence that may remotely insinuate an ambition for collective rationality and imagination.”

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Book:Intelligence and Spirit

Source: Intelligence and Spirit

“The tree doesn't move and yet its reach stretches all across the globe.The tree stands at one place but its seeds travel far and wide and take a strong hold wherever the condition is amecable for their growth. That is the power of imagination we have!”

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Book:Lessons from My Garden

Source: Lessons from My Garden

“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.”