Consciousness Quote by Robert Moss

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

— Paula Gunn Allen

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

— Camille Paglia

Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other…

— Robert Moss

“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

Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of…

— George Carlin

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

— Stanislav Grof

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that…

— Ruth Ozeki

Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.

— Hyon Gyon

“Modern businesspeople and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger…

— Yuval Noah Harari

... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are…

— C. Wagner

“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