Art Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“San religion is built around belief in a tiered universe. As do other shamanistic peoples throughout the world, the San believe in a realm…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“This is why the shaman is the remote ancestor of the poet and artist. Our need to feel part of the world seems to…

— Terence McKenna

“Shamanism explores an area that contemporary Western science knows little about- the mind.”

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger

“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

“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

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

— Gabrielle Roth

“Under certain social circumstances, which may have varied from time to time and place to place, certain people (shamans) saw a relationship between the…

— James David Lewis-Williams

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

— Michael Harner

“Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the…

— Lada Ray

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion…

— Terence McKenna

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.

— Michael Harner