Tom Cowan > Quotes

“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.”
― Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit – A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Visionary Experience

“Just as twilight is neither light nor dark, but a bit of each, so is the middle head, face, or person representative of that magical blend of two opposing energies. The shaman is the twilight child, born from the union of the masculine world of light and conscious awareness and the feminine world of darkness and unconscious awareness. Shamans are at home in both worlds: in that magical space and time shimmering between these worlds, that point of consciousness 'betwixt and between' and 'neither this, nor that,' flickering at the edge of twilight.”
― Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit – A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Visionary Experience

“Yes, there is always a great and terrible crashing when any tree falls, for no tree falls that does not fall within my soul.”
― Tom Cowan, Yearning for the Wind: Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul: Celtic Reflections on the Nature and the Soul

“Then go on as one who has long life, Go with blessing before you, Go with blessing behind you, Go with blessing below you, Go with blessing above you, Go with blessing around you, Go with blessing in your speech, Go with happiness and long life, Go mysteriously.”
― Tom Cowan, Shamanism As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life