“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about… — S. Kelley Harrell 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
“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of… — S. Kelley Harrell 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
“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
“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
“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
“Learning shamanism isn’t just about acquiring techniques in how to do it, but also how to incorporate and deal with the changes… — S. Kelley Harrell 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
“You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It’s our nature for parts of the soul to… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.” — S. Kelley Harrell 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 of elation,… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what remains its critically profound… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image