Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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.
If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [. . . ] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey.
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins. No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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.
Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.
Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover. . . we are not alone.
