Shamanism Quotes
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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
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Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
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Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
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Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path can become a way of life.
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Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.
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Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.
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Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.
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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.