Axes Quote by Jeremy Narby

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece…

— Terence McKenna

“Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall…

— James David Lewis-Williams

The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

— Richard Allen

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

— George Herbert

In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches…

— Rob Parker

“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

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

— David Christian

“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

“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