Quotes from Ted Andrews

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.

Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today.

With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys. — Chief Dan George

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

What we consider imagination is a reality in some form on levels beyond the normal sensory world.

Rivers have an ancient symbolic connection to animal life, creation and the flow of time. Rivers are places where animals will gather to drink.

We find that magical creation is the force of life inherent in all things.

Every animal is a gateway to the phenomenal world of the human spirit. What most fail to realize is that what they think of animals reflects the way they think of themselves.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441