“Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.” — S. Kelley Harrell 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
“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
“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
“The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses.” — 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
“All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.” — S. Kelley Harrell 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
“What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.” — 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
“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
“In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.” — 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
“If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share
“Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share
