“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.” — Michael Drake Copy Share Image
“I have an image of Turtle right on the forehead. She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of… — Sandra Harner Copy Share Image
“Your soul will get you through tough times with no money, better than your money will get you through times with no… — Gerard Armond Powell Copy Share Image
“The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Shamanism explores an area that contemporary Western science knows little about- the mind.” — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
“I practice neither black nor white magic. What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I… — Christopher Rankin Copy Share Image
“Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upon your silence. This is how… — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade)… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
“The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“What we have become accustomed to witnessing is a social illusion that takes precedence due to the fact that the process is… — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
“I am walking down to the oak tree. And I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but I jump in and… — Sandra Harner Copy Share Image
“Take your thoughts off. The invading thoughts you have. Push them aside. See your future in a bright way. Don't struggle with… — Sandra Harner Copy Share Image
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Turtle is putting seaweed all over me. It is the big turtle. She is so big that she can regurgitate seaweed over… — Sandra Harner Copy Share Image
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In recent decades, the biggest enemies of shamanism have been Korea’s many fervent Christians. Which, said Mason, is highly ironic, since Korean… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“It was rather peculiar behaviour for a totem animal. Totem animals are supposed to be the spirits of actual dead animals or… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.” — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.” — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
“Despite its prominence now, you don’t stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone. — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
“Happiness, is one meeting away, and it’s a meeting with yourself.” — Gerard Armond Powell Copy Share Image
“What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image