Top 95 Shaman Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.
Tom Cole
#3. Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.
Swami Beyondananda
#4. Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Robert A. Heinlein
#5. That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.
Allen Ginsberg
#6. A shaman walks the thin line of insanity and bliss.
Lori Morrison
#7. Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
Michael Harner
#8. I mightn't be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was playing a shamanistic role. Language was my medicine and with it I would do my best to record my awakening and help heal with my words ... The journey isn't over yet.
Rak Razam
#9. The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.
Ted Andrews
#10. A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#11. 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
#12. He turned and looked up at me with the face of a needy child and the eyes of an ancient shaman.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#13. Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.
Julian Schnabel
#14. A confidence man knows he's lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says - and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.
Jubal
#15. I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat.
Warren Ellis
#17. Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he's a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.
Julia Kent
#18. The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.
Alberto Villoldo
#19. It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.
RuPaul
#20. Blue eyes glittered. A shock of golden hair - gone. The dust in the air swirled, coalesced into a thorn-twisted Shaman tattoo.
Lilith Saintcrow
#21. I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to do.
Clive Barker
#22. Look at this, Grace," Peg's e-mail said. "He's entrancing those people. I just realized. Taking them out of themselves. Ty is sort of like a medicine man. A shaman.
P.S. Have you called him?
Shelle Sumners
#23. A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
Confucius
#24. The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
Terence McKenna
#25. In every colour there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the dolphin
Enigma
#26. Do you see how little it all matters? How quickly and easily I can take it all away, should I choose to do so? Beware, gunslinger! Beware, shaman! The abyss is all around you. You float or fall into it at my whim.
Stephen King
#27. A prophet. A shaman. Motivated extraordinarily, thus extraordinarily motivating. Taking the same drugs they took, which he himself provided. Though of course he didn't actually take them. If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics.
William Gibson
#28. The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.
Judy Grahn
#29. Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.
Mark Plotkin
#30. It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself, who is cured, and who must shamanize in order to remain cured.
Terence McKenna
#31. How far can they travel before you lose them?" Kiral asked the shaman, who seemed puzzled by the question.
Anthony Ryan
#32. I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
Billy Corgan
#33. This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power.
P.J. Parker
#34. Plant spirit medicine is the shaman's way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.
Elliot Cowan
#36. It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.
Sandra Ingerman
#37. The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
Terence McKenna
#38. The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
Terence McKenna
#39. Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
Carlos Castaneda
#40. 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
#41. An Eskimo shaman said, "Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls".
Annie Dillard
#42. Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
Jimmy Buffett
#43. Some of the bank people were so young they'd never seen a business proposal suggesting manufacturing things in the state of Massachusetts. They thought they'd unearthed some ancient shaman, full of clues to a forgotten world.
Dave Eggers
#44. [T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.
Serge King
#45. I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.
Wes Craven
#46. The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.
Mircea Eliade
#47. Father Sams, a mirthful shaman, looked at a nighted photograph of actress Lar Park Lincoln beneath his glass of bourbon con hielo.
Jarrett McCall
#48. The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
Terence McKenna
#49. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
Rumi
#50. He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.
Michael Harner
#51. I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.
Marisa Tomei
#52. Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Sherman Alexie
#53. I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...
Bill Hicks
#54. 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
#55. The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
Stanislav Grof
#56. The shaman does not believe in a division between the body and the spirit or between the visible world of form and the invisible world of energy
Alberto Villoldo
#57. 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
#58. Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.
Michelle Tea
#59. Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.
Hank Wesselman
#60. On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of many of our complaints: our lack of energy, our fatigue, our depression, why our immune systems are blown, why we lack enthusiasm and courage for life.
Robert Moss
#61. I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to get it back is for your children to die. And, you know, monks don't have families.
Larkin Grimm
#62. Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.
Lada Ray
#63. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.
John Cusack
#64. 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
#65. I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.
Clive Barker
#66. Now I was standing in a forest grove with a witch, a half-demon, a vampire, and a shaman, planning to put an end to a nefarious plot to usurp our powers and alter the path of humankind. Talk about your conspiracy theories.
Kelley Armstrong
#67. The Semitic/Arabic word for [Deacon] is transliterated into English as, Shammaas; the Semitic tongue preserved its original form as, Shaman.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#68. Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.
Robert Moss
#69. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Thomas Merton
#70. Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey
#71. Shaman ninjas. Perfect. Now my life was complete.
Ilona Andrews
#72. Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.
Will Adcock
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There.
S. Kelley Harrell
#77. Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn't worth much.
S. Kelley Harrell
#79. Freedom is an illusion. Try walking along the road with long hair and it won't be long before a sheriff pulls up asking questions.
Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
#81. The idea that we sacrifice our innate wisdom at the feet of our Guides is really no different from the rigid religious doctrines that talked us out of our childhood spiritual knowing.
S. Kelley Harrell
#82. Every initiation reaches a point of crisis, by design. If it was easy to let go of the old way, there would be no need for initiation. We'd seat easily into new wisdom.
S. Kelley Harrell
#83. Pain exists only in the mind. Whether an event is real or not doesn't matter, only that the mind believes it is. Suffering can be suspended by achieving new beliefs and perspectives. We see what we want to see, and feel what we want to feel. Never doubt that the life you lead is the life you want.
Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
#84. 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
#86. Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning.
S. Kelley Harrell
#87. Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected.
Michael Talbot
#88. I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!
Joanne
C.E. Murphy
#89. It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same.
Jan Hawkins
#90. f you don't heal yourself, you will
continue relying on miracles to heal your manifestations,one after another, creating a cycle where you don't make
any progress. Unless the root cause is eliminated, the problem will reappear in some form.
Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
#91. 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
#92. There are no superstitions but those you invent
Jack Lasenby
#93. In the silence of the mountain there is much you can learn.
Dennis McKay
#94. A higher power does exist. The forces of day-to-day reality seem to take hold and become the truth for you, yet truth is not seen with the eyes or heard with the ears. It is felt as the peace in your heart and professes itself with health and well being.
Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
