Access Quote by Allen Ginsberg

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of…

— Allen Ginsberg

“I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits; we just don’t have a collective belief system or community…

— S. Kelley Harrell

The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is…

— Terence McKenna

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our…

— Eli Roth

People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened,…

— Frederick Lenz

...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and…

— John Cassian

“...the exorcist should not believe too readily that a person is possessed by an evil spirit; but he aught to ascertain by the signs…

— William Peter Blatty

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.

— Mark Driscoll

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because…

— Sylvia Browne

Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught…

— Natalie Zemon Davis

“Spirits carry an ozone scent, and demons smell like sulfur or rotten eggs. A person might not even consciously register the smell, but they’ll…

— J.D. Horn