Harner Quotes

#1. Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

Nevill Drury

#2. I am in the river now. I must have fallen. And I am in this river.
And I am just washed away
by the current of
the river.
This is not a river. It is just a small
rivulet.

Sandra Harner

#3. Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

Michael Harner

#4. Take your thoughts off.
The invading
thoughts you have. Push them aside. See your future in a
bright way. Don't struggle with the past. It is gone. Look
for the future. Look for the future.

Sandra Harner

#5. Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Michael Harner

#6. I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.
There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain in there. It, it is just a skull. And still he felt he had to open it
to let energy in there.

Sandra Harner

#7. I have an image of
Turtle
right on the forehead.
She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of
like swimming.

Sandra Harner

#8. Her figure wasn't bad. Maybe a little round at the breasts and hips, but she was a woman, damn it, not a stick figure.

L.E. Harner

#9. Saints and mystics, revelations, origin myths, and heroes' journeys, as well as ethical and spiritual guidelines, speak to us from ancient times and far-flung lands and peoples.

Sandra Harner

#10. Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

Michael Harner

#11. Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

Michael Harner

#12. My arms look
as if blood is ...
And on my feet ...
It is dropping on my feet.
I now take the fruit and just
put it all over my body.

Sandra Harner

#13. You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Douglas Coupland

#14. What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.

Sandra Harner

#16. I am walking down to the oak tree. And
I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but
I jump in
and walk
slowly
through the lava tube.
It is fairly dark, but I see in the far distance,
like a pinhead,
a light.
Sort of yellowish, actually.

Sandra Harner

#17. Life comes and goes. ... If you know that, you know it all.

Sandra Harner

#18. Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Mary Hunter Austin

#19. Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important.

Sandra Harner

#20. The lizard took the water, and
exposed the
body.

Sandra Harner

#21. Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

William Glasser

#22. Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected.

Michael Talbot

#23. Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#24. It was like so, but wasn't.

Richard Powers

#25. There's beauty and there's ugliness. You have to love both.

Sandra Harner

#26. When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Joan Collins

#27. Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future.

Sandra Harner

#28. It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Coretta Scott King

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

Michael Harner

#30. The blue light is all over. Actually it is within my body. Makes my joints feel all warm.
Vulture thinks I talk too much.

Sandra Harner

#31. He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

Michael Harner

#32. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.

Sandra Harner

#33. THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status.

David McRaney

#34. she nearly tipped ass over teakettle through the opening.

Laura Harner