Trevor Greenfield > Quotes

“All spiritual schools worth their salt teach that there cannot be Light without Shadow. This means that any spiritual path is going to confront people with their own shadow and our collective shadow as much as their capacity to feel love and light. This surprises many who prefer to think that one can exist without the other. This is one of the many reasons why high quality spiritual teachings are of crucial importance right now. Spirituality is about living an authentic life, questioning every single choice we make, owning our own side of any difficult encounter, being awake to every single mirror the Universe holds up.”
― Trevor Greenfield, Shaman Pathways - What is Shamanism?

“We are in a world that has forgotten how interconnected we are with each other; how reliant we are on her mother, Gaia, for everything we need to exist, and that we are, in fact, made of the same materials as the stars. We can become as the Gods, but only if we remember that we are already divine beings.”
― Trevor Greenfield, Naming the Goddess

“Ultimately, in animism we end up with the idea that it’s not so much that everything has a spirit, but that everything is a spirit, and some spirits have physical forms while others don’t.”
― Trevor Greenfield, Shaman Pathways - What is Shamanism?

“path that chose me (no one chooses shamanism – shamanism tends to choose us!).”
― Trevor Greenfield, Shaman Pathways - What is Shamanism?

“Modron in turn is related to the continental Celtic Goddess known as Matrona (“Divine Mother”) who was mother to Maponos (“Divine Son”). Matrona is the singular form of Matronae, also called the Matres, who were triads of Mother Goddesses who were worshipped in Celtic, Germanic, and later Roman lands. These are tutelary goddesses of territories, clans, animals, trees, and other attributes of the land. Epona is believed to be a specialized iteration of Matrona,”
― Trevor Greenfield, The Celtic Goddess