Top 100 Quotes About Shamanism
#2. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Terence McKenna
#3. Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
Terence McKenna
#4. The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
Terence McKenna
#5. What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone.
Michael Harner
#6. Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
Terence McKenna
#7. This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
Terence McKenna
#8. At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of
cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what
remains its critically profound gift to the present lies in its
simplistic roots of the past.
S. Kelley Harrell
#9. The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
Terence McKenna
#10. I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
Terence McKenna
#11. 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
#12. In shamanism it is not the jaguar or the crow that has meaning, it is what follows from whatever you view as an energetic transfer.
Lujan Matus
#13. Techno-shamanism is a sub-genre of science fiction that is not recognized. Ernest Hogan's "Smoking Mirror Blues" is a seminal work in techno-shamanism.
Frank S. Lechuga
#14. 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 to everyday life.
S. Kelley Harrell
#15. One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Terence McKenna
#16. And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
Terence McKenna
#17. Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
Amy Hardie
#18. Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.
S. Kelley Harrell
#19. Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#20. Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
William S. Burroughs
#21. In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
Terence McKenna
#22. 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 of any model of the world that you build.
Terence McKenna
#23. 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 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
Terence McKenna
#24. Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
Terence McKenna
#25. Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.
Hank Wesselman
#26. 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
#27. Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.
Will Adcock
#28. Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
Michael Harner
#30. Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Terence McKenna
#31. Those who claim to be shamans there (Old East-Block Countries) today are just trying to pick up those remnants that they can remember; or shards they can find; as there has been no practice of traditional shamanism in those Communist countries for over 100 years.
Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls
#33. Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
Terence McKenna
#34. Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed
Michael Harner
#35. Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Terence McKenna
#36. Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.
S. Kelley Harrell
#37. Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.
S. Kelley Harrell
#39. Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
Max Stirner
#40. My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.
Weam Namou
#41. We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.
S. Kelley Harrell
#42. Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one's path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself.
Lujan Matus
#43. Though it doesn't feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
S. Kelley Harrell
#44. With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.
Jonathan Culver
#45. The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.
S. Kelley Harrell
#46. What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.
S. Kelley Harrell
#47. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.
Sandra Harner
#49. To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.
Zeena Schreck
#50. 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
#51. Be within your heart.
See and feel with your heart.
Recognize your heart within another.
Speak words from the heart.
Receive the words of another,
within those precious chambers.
Lujan Matus
#53. If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
S. Kelley Harrell
#54. I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.
S. Kelley Harrell
#55. The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.
Lujan Matus
#56. We Who Solve Mystery, Become Mystery
Rak Razam
#57. Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.
Jeanne Achterberg
#58. 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 that recognizes the calling for what it is.
S. Kelley Harrell
#59. 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
#61. In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.
Lujan Matus
#62. As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings.
S. Kelley Harrell
#63. The only path that has any meaning is one that resolves your being in the feeling that your heart is empowered by doing what is necessary for your existence.
Lujan Matus
#64. Your journey is at hand and you are responsible.
Lujan Matus
#65. A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.
S. Kelley Harrell
#66. Result-oriented, low-tech, low-cost, shamanic medicine, uses natural elements, spirit, and the healing power of a caring community, as practiced by indigenous societies for millennia.
Itzhak Beery
#68. Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.
Michael Drake
#69. Your Life Purpose is your North star in the dark night as you navigate your canoe. It is the compass by which your soul directs your life journey.
Itzhak Beery
#70. If a wound was all that was required to be a shaman, we'd all be one. If wounds were required, no one would be.
S. Kelley Harrell
#71. There's beauty and there's ugliness. You have to love both.
Sandra Harner
#72. Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power.
Lujan Matus
#73. Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
S. Kelley Harrell
#74. The way other people practiced a sport, learned a dance, I sat with feelings to learn who I am.
S. Kelley Harrell
#75. Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected.
Michael Talbot
#76. Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
S. Kelley Harrell
#77. When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.
S. Kelley Harrell
#78. I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing
including myself.
S. Kelley Harrell
#79. The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.
S. Kelley Harrell
#80. The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.
Zeena Schreck
#81. In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.
S. Kelley Harrell
#82. The lizard took the water, and
exposed the
body.
Sandra Harner
#83. Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning.
S. Kelley Harrell
#84. You can experience your dreams externally, but if your scripted responses get in the way, all there will be are branches and shadows in your life, nothing more.
Lujan Matus
#85. Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important.
Sandra Harner
#86. Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
S. Kelley Harrell
#87. If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.
Lujan Matus
#88. 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 to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less.
S. Kelley Harrell
#89. Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
S. Kelley Harrell
#92. Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.
S. Kelley Harrell
#93. How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?
S. Kelley Harrell
#94. Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm."
(Rob Brezsny)
Lesley Thomas
#95. 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
#96. All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.
S. Kelley Harrell
#97. Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
S. Kelley Harrell
#99. It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.
S. Kelley Harrell
#100. You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.
S. Kelley Harrell
