“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
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
“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
“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
“All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“They're doing a rain dance? A rain dance? In my hotel? On Waikiki Beach? A rain dance?” — Richard Tillotson 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
“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
“Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one’s path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely… — Lujan Matus 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
“Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we’re not in form to learn lessons. We’re here… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we… — Tom Cowan Copy Share Image
“Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“My arms look as if blood is . . . And on my feet . . . It is dropping on my… — Sandra Harner Copy Share Image
“Perspective shifted on why it must 'hurt to heal', and a series of questions kept coming to mind. I found myself wondering… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“How can a nation nourished on diversity breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Life can be a process of observing what we are interfering with, rather than interfering with what we are observing.” — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
“I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“I am in the river now. I must have fallen. And I am in this river. And I am just washed away… — Sandra Harner Copy Share Image
“Be within your heart. See and feel with your heart. Recognize your heart within another. Speak words from the heart. Receive the… — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
“In the end we are the sum total of our doings and we will be faced by those doings at the moment… — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
“I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits; we just don’t have a collective belief system… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
“The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Happiness, is one meeting away, and it’s a meeting with yourself.” — Gerard Armond Powell Copy Share Image
