Quotes About Shaman

Ayahuasca visions: The religious iconography of a Peruvian shaman, by Luis Eduardo Luna and Pablo Amaringo.

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.

Shaman today basically means a drug dealer who's read Carlos Castaneda.

People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an ancient distrust of the shaman. You want them to be wrong. If they're right, then they're somehow superior, and this is even more uncomfortable than getting wet. This Moment of the Storm

My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.

What is a shaman? The word was borrowed by anthropologists from the Tungus people of Siberia.

It is always better to let them (shaman and priest) take credit for a good outcome. Do you understand?

This plan may be bungled into wreck by fools . The Skaga shaman , p 266 .

people in congregations often look to a pastor as a sort of shaman. He said, "They want us to play the intermediary. They are highly dependent, if not codependent. They want us to give them 'the four steps to this, the eight keys to that, and the five insights for the other thing.

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

medium is any person who serves as a conduit to the spirits. It is a relatively general term. Various techniques exist. Mediums may or may not be shamans or engage in ritual possession. Some deliver messages in trance, others while completely awake and conscious. Mediums may use tools such as divination devices, automatic writing, or planchettes. A person presiding over a séance is called a medium.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself, who is cured, and who must shamanize in order to remain cured.

It would be as if I carried a tangible memory of the shaman with me if I travelled with his boy.

superstition is remarkably powerful. The word 'shaman' itself is a creation of the Evenks, the native Siberians who live in the forests.

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

The memorable events of a shaman's album are affairs that will stand the test of time because they have nothing to do with him, and yet he is in the thick of them. He'll always be in the thick of them, for the duration of his life, and perhaps beyond, but not quite personally.

Medicine men live in caves.

I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.