Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having…

— James David Lewis-Williams

The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in…

— Terence McKenna

“A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

“What is a shaman? The word was borrowed by anthropologists from the Tungus people of Siberia.”

— Robert Moss

“It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman;…

— Terence McKenna

I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the thousands there…

— John Wesley Powell

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

— Terence McKenna

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

— Terence McKenna

“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

Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually…

— Terence McKenna