For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.

Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall framework of society.

Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.

Primary consciousness is a state of being aware of things in the world – of having mental images in the present.But it is not accompanied by any sense of a person with a past and future…

Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…

I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.

Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.

Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.

In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.

The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.

Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.

If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

He who knows about depth knows about God.

My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.