Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with…

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

— Jay Griffiths

I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was…

— Shailene Woodley

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for…

— Henry Rosovsky

An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.…

— Jeremy Narby

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all…

— Ken Wilber

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly…

— Marianne Williamson

“In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and negative power,…

— Joan Borysenko

The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global…

— Jerry Mander

“...the multitudinous substitutes for indigenous culture cannot grow. Having no roots, they can only age and decay. Studious, sincere youth retires, defeated. American youth,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Whale Rider' was a very authentic and specific movie about the indigenous culture from where I come. Amazingly, by the fact it was so…

— Niki Caro

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy…

— Zoe Helene

“The situation, therefore, in the colonial countries, is tragic,” Cesaire continued. “Wherever colonization is a fact the indigenous culture begins to rot. And, among…

— James Baldwin