Bunch Quote by Mordecai Richler

“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

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

— RuPaul

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

— Terence McKenna

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

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

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

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

— William S. Burroughs

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

— Terence McKenna

So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities…

— Joseph Beuys

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

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger

“Notice that I am treating psychotherapy as a cultural artifact that can be interpreted, rather than as a universal healing technology that has already…

— Philip Cushman

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

— Amy Hardie