160 Quotes About Shamanism

In 1949, Claude Lévi-Strauss stated in a key essay that the shaman, far from being mentally ill, was in fact a kind of psychotherapist—the difference being that the psychoanalyst listens, whereas the shaman speaks.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

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.

If you have come to the point you are ready to consult spirits to know more about your life, there is nothing under the sun that you cannot do.

The task of writing is the quintessential spiritual act because it tests a person’s commitment to living a meaningful life. Writing this scroll is a self-prescribed, shamanistic act of spiritual faith.

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.

Everything in shamanism is about relationships.

Despite its prominence now, you don’t stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.

We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.