Community Quote by S. Kelley Harrell

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

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

— Amy Hardie

Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily…

— Stanley Krippner

Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment, and love.…

— Hyon Gyon

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

— Michael Harner

Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire…

— Michael Harner

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000…

— Terence McKenna

“Historically, shamans have always been part of the society where they lived, taking care of its problems, whenever they were allowed to operate. For…

— Franco Santoro

“What is a shaman? The word was borrowed by anthropologists from the Tungus people of Siberia.”

— Robert Moss

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

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger