Shamanism Quotes
My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.
Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
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.
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.
A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.
Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.
Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.
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.
Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much.
We don't heal in isolation, but in community.
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.
We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.
Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.
This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.
Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.
You have to live the way you are going to end up.