160 Quotes About Shamanism

We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.

Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the purpose of shamanic pregnancy, which is about retrieving and integrating the fragmented pieces of the soul, finally giving birth to the multidimensional self.

Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.

Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.

With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There.

As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won’t do the work required to mine its precious teachings.

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.

If you make a choice to walk into the darkness, eventually you may come to know that love is the invisible glue that binds, and light is the container everything is held in. Darkness is a temporary illusion, but the light is ever present.

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.