Animism Quote by S. Kelley Harrell

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your…

— Amy Poehler

“Learning shamanism isn’t just about acquiring techniques in how to do it, but also how to incorporate and deal with the changes it brings…

— S. Kelley Harrell

“Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“How can a nation nourished on diversity breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“When I say ‘practice’ I don’t mean repeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline…

— S. Kelley Harrell

“Despite its prominence now, you don’t stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.”

— 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

“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

“Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.

— Graham Harvey

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

— Daniel Quinn