Top 100 Shamanism's Quotes
#1. Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
S. Kelley Harrell
#2. 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
#4. Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
S. Kelley Harrell
#5. All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.
S. Kelley Harrell
#6. How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?
S. Kelley Harrell
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. 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. Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
S. Kelley Harrell
#13. 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
#14. You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.
S. Kelley Harrell
#15. Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning.
S. Kelley Harrell
#16. In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.
S. Kelley Harrell
#17. The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.
S. Kelley Harrell
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
S. Kelley Harrell
#21. The way other people practiced a sport, learned a dance, I sat with feelings to learn who I am.
S. Kelley Harrell
#22. Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
S. Kelley Harrell
#23. 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
#24. Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
William S. Burroughs
#25. Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power.
Lujan Matus
#26. We are all but symbols of some greater thing - totems of ourselves
subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.
S. Kelley Harrell
#27. Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.
S. Kelley Harrell
#28. We can't turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.
S. Kelley Harrell
#29. I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.
S. Kelley Harrell
#30. 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
#31. Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.
S. Kelley Harrell
#32. 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
#33. What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.
S. Kelley Harrell
#34. All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one's self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.
S. Kelley Harrell
#35. Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.
S. Kelley Harrell
#36. Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.
S. Kelley Harrell
#38. Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn't worth much.
S. Kelley Harrell
#39. There's beauty and there's ugliness. You have to love both.
Sandra Harner
#40. Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we're not in form to learn lessons. We're here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.
S. Kelley Harrell
#43. Engaging spirits isn't an elitist ability or industry, it's being active in the connection with All Things. It's innate to us all.
S. Kelley Harrell
#45. We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses.
S. Kelley Harrell
#47. With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There.
S. Kelley Harrell
#48. She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.
S. Kelley Harrell
#49. The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
S. Kelley Harrell
#50. The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It's our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves.
S. Kelley Harrell
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. We Who Solve Mystery, Become Mystery
Rak Razam
#55. Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
Terence McKenna
#56. What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone.
Michael Harner
#57. The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.
Lujan Matus
#58. I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.
S. Kelley Harrell
#59. If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
S. Kelley Harrell
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.
Sandra Harner
#66. The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
Terence McKenna
#67. What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.
S. Kelley Harrell
#68. The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.
S. Kelley Harrell
#69. 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
#70. Though it doesn't feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
S. Kelley Harrell
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.
S. Kelley Harrell
#74. My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.
Weam Namou
#75. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Terence McKenna
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.
Michael Drake
#80. 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
#82. 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
#83. A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.
S. Kelley Harrell
#84. Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.
S. Kelley Harrell
#85. Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
Amy Hardie
#86. 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
#87. One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Terence McKenna
#88. Your journey is at hand and you are responsible.
Lujan Matus
#90. 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
#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. 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
#93. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
Terence McKenna
#100. 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
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