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| 2100f4e | A maneira de comer e um dos meios mais poderoso que um povo tem de expressar e preservar sua identidade cultural. (...) Tornar as opcoes alimentares mais cientificas e esvazia-las de seu conteudo etnico e de sua historia. | antropologia nutrição | Michael Pollan | |
| 2663f5d | ineffability: | Michael Pollan | ||
| 50e66e1 | noetic | Michael Pollan | ||
| 9df4f4c | abeyance, | Michael Pollan | ||
| d3c7b8e | numinous | Michael Pollan | ||
| 408ce4e | Science has trouble with this interpretation, however, because, whatever the perception is, it can't be verified by its customary tools. It's an anecdotal report, in effect, and so has no value. Science has little interest in, and tolerance for, the testimony of the individual; in this it is, curiously, much like an organized religion, which has a big problem crediting direct revelation too. But it's worth pointing out that there are cases | Michael Pollan | ||
| 8317db8 | I myself am identical with nature. | Michael Pollan | ||
| cc0bdea | the marvel of consciousness," as Vladimir Nabokov once called it, "that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being"--maybe" | Michael Pollan | ||
| 095532b | It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking. | luxury multitasking time | Michael Pollan | |
| 719b20f | felt like mysteries were being unveiled and yet it all felt familiar and more like I was being reminded of things I had already known. I had a sense of initiation into dimensions of existence most people never know exist, including the distinct sense that death was illusory, in the sense that it is a door we walk through into another plane of existence, that we're sprung from an eternity to which we will return. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 39a10db | existential distress | Michael Pollan | ||
| 233f802 | As the author Michael Pollan taught us in his book The Omnivore's Dilemma, our food and the way we eat has changed more in the last fifty years than in the last five thousand. All these changes mean that we're eating in a way that's significantly different from our ancestors. High-fructose corn syrup, corn-fed factory-farmed meat, preservatives, genetically modified wheat, and hormone-injected dairy are all examples of foods that have never.. | Alejandro Junger | ||
| 20cddff | Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 9709a7d | the biological, the psychological, the philosophical, or the spiritual--has yet earned the right to claim it has the final word. It may be that by layering these different perspectives one upon the other, we can gain the richest picture | Michael Pollan | ||
| 88f6456 | R. D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 5aebf72 | Profound pain is often the unavoidable reality of conscious existence. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 50e7de3 | If we act in a goodly way because we are afraid of how we will feel if we do not, then we have not truly come to separate the concept of right and wrong. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| a9d31ce | I do not leave enemies alive in my wake." "I" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| c744594 | Sydney, just outside the doorway, was likewise distracted, for the battle between the dark elf and Entreri was unlike anything she had ever seen, two master swordsmen weaving and parrying in absolute harmony. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| c804aa1 | Strides on ice are wisely tempered. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| b7fa242 | This hall of epistemological mirrors was just one of the many challenges facing the researchers who wanted to bring LSD into the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy: psychedelic therapy could look more like shamanism or faith healing than medicine. Another challenge was the irrational exuberance that seemed to infect any researchers who got involved with LSD, an enthusiasm that might have improved the results of their experiments at the s.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 8abefbe | nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive. | Michael Pollan | ||
| fd8fafd | Is a platitude so deeply felt still just a platitude? No, I decided. A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e95eab3 | The mystical journey seems to offer a graduate education in the obvious. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3464b51 | The journeys have shown me what the Buddhists try to tell us but I have never really understood: that there is much more to consciousness than the ego, as we would see if it would just shut up. And that its dissolution (or transcendence) is nothing to fear; in fact, it is a prerequisite for making any spiritual progress. | Michael Pollan | ||
| fc539fb | Sigmund Freud wrote that "there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, our own ego." Yet it is difficult to be quite so certain that anyone else possesses consciousness, much less other creatures, because there is no outward physical evidence that consciousness as we experience it exists. The thing of which we are most certain is beyond the reach of our science, supposedly our surest way of knowing anything." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 75369b7 | Wrangham estimates that cooking our food gives our species an extra four hours a day. (This happens to be roughly the same amount of time we now devote to watching television.) | Michael Pollan | ||
| a95b454 | Ninety percent of a cooked egg is digested whereas only 65 percent of a raw egg is; by the same token, the rarer the steak, or more al dente the pasta, the less of it will be absorbed. Dieters take note. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 65d910d | Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations--a kind of controlled hallucination. This raises a question: How is normal waking consciousness any different from other, seemingly less faithful productions of our imagination--such as dreams or psychotic delusions or psychedelic trips? In fact, all these states of consciousness are "imagined": they're mental.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 85da748 | Each of the tastes has been selected by evolution for its survival value. Either it guides us toward nutrients we need to survive, or it steers us away from ingesting things that might endanger us. | Michael Pollan | ||
| bdb1917 | Some researchers attribute the increase in gluten intolerance and celiac disease to the fact that modern brands no longer receive a lengthy fermentation. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f921fc1 | In this fact, Dave explained, lies the origin of the phrase "nose to the grindstone": a scrupulous miller leans in frequently to smell his grindstone for signs of flour beginning to overheat. (So the saying does not signify hard work so much as attentiveness.)" | Michael Pollan | ||
| 733609a | In the course of a lifetime, sixty tons of food pass through the gastrointestinal tract, an exposure to the world that is fraught with risk. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 1031666 | The Johns Hopkins experiment shows--proves--that under controlled, experimental conditions, psilocybin can occasion genuine mystical experiences. It uses science, which modernity trusts, to undermine modernity's secularism. In doing so, it offers hope of nothing less than a re-sacralization of the natural and social world, a spiritual revival that is our best defense against not only soullessness, but against religious fanaticism. And it do.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7607573 | What to my (spiritually impoverished) mind seemed to constitute a good case for the disenchantment of the world becomes in the minds of the more psychedelically experienced irrefutable proof of its fundamental enchantment. Flesh of the gods, indeed. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3892654 | The only discordant note in the conversation came when I casually dropped the slang expression for psilocybin when asking him about going hunting for 'shrooms. "I really, really hate that word," he said, almost gravely, adopting the tone of a parent upbraiding a potty-mouthed child. The word never crossed my lips again." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 049369a | We extract one hundred tons of coal from the earth every two seconds in the United States, and about seventy percent of that coal comes from strip mines and mountaintop removal, which began in 1970. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 2e01b72 | Some 8,000 nonviolent Occupy protesters were arrested across the nation. Not one banker or investor went to jail for causing the 2008 financial meltdown. The disparity of justice mirrored the disparity in incomes and the disparity in power. | Chris Hedges | ||
| a83ef5e | The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that is one of the symptoms of a dying culture. In ancient Rome, as the republic disintegrated and the Caesars were deified, as the Roman Senate became little more than an echo chamber of the emperor, the population's attention was diverted by a series of frontier wars and violent and elaborate spectacles in the arena. The excitement of entertain.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 7fa8248 | Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 53e74d6 | Our return to an image-based culture means the destruction of the abstract thought made possible by a literate, print-based society. Image-based societies do not grasp or cope with ambiguity, nuance, doubt and the many layers of irrational motives and urges, some of them frightening, that make human actions complex and finally unfathomable. They eschew self-criticism for amusement. They build fantastic non-reality-based belief systems that .. | Chris Hedges | ||
| e4c8d0f | Today this key component of revolution--the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get--is being played out in the United States and many states in Europe during a new age of mounting scarcity, declining wages, joblessness, government-imposed "austerity" measures, and assaults on civil liberties. The rising living standards experienced by the American working class in the 1950s have been in precipitous decline since .. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 0aa5b30 | By the time they were done, America's progressive and radical movements, which had given the country the middle class and opened up our political system, did not exist. It was upon the corpses of these radical movements, which had fought for the working class, that the corporate state was erected in the late twentieth century. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 48aa1d6 | The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the utter disregard for the intellectual traditions and culture of one of the world's great civilizations are characteristic of those who disdain self-reflection and intellectual inquiry. Confronting this complexity requires work and study rather than a retreat into slogans and cliches. And enlightened, tolerant civilizations have flourished out.. | culture islam religion | Chris Hedges |