Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.