Shamanism Quotes
Shamanism Quote of the day
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
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.
What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.
Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
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.
Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
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.
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.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
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.
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
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.
I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.
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.
I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits
Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.
When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.
I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.
Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.
I practice neither black nor white magic.What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I don’t strive to be a member of a club.
If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.
Have intention, sacred will travel.
