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If you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened,dispirited, or depressed,they would ask one of four questions: when did you stop dancing?…

— Anonymous

For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation and laughter.…

— Hyon Gyon

“I mightn't be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was…

— Rak Razam

“. I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to…

— Mordecai Richler

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

— Terence McKenna

“But I hear that tone in his voice, that calming tone that doctors put on because, after all, they are still part witch, part…

— P. Carey Reid

“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

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of…

— Richard Wright

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told…

— Heidi Julavits

People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no?…

— Hyon Gyon

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts,…

— Byron Katie