You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. — Michael Harner 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
Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets,… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
![“If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience…” quote by Michael Harner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ead/michael-harner-46855_dangerous_if-a-state-political-organization-is-fou_2409253.jpg)
