Shamanism Healing Quotes

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
― Zeena Schreck

“The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus

“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.”
― Terence McKenna

“If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold.”
― Zeena Schreck

“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An ego death involves a merciless destruction of the autobiographical memory system that sustains a person’s collective of bodily and mental images. In order to provoke an ego death, one might choose to pare down their sense of self to a bare skeleton divested of all flesh and blood. It might even be useful to visualize a person’s own burial and then imagine a rebirth. A person who undergoes an ego death might experience a transformation in their life that duplicates a reincarnation.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past and the present and predicting the future. An inner voice calls to the shaman and an essayistic writer to answer the call that vexes the pernicious spirit of their times. Shamanistic writers induce a trance state of mind where they lose contact with physical reality through a rational disordering of the senses, in an effort to encounter for the umpteenth time the great unknown and the unutterable truths that structure existence. An afflicted person seeking clarification of existence cannot ignore the shamanistic calling of narrative exposition. Thus, I shall continue this longwinded howl – making a personal immortality vessel – into the darkness of night forevermore.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Stop shining a light on the things you're not.”
― Gerard Armond Powell

“If you have come to the point you are ready to consult spirits to know more about your life, there is nothing under the sun that you cannot do.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

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― Talat Jonathan Phillips

“Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important.”
― Sandra Harner, Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

“You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.”
― Sandra Harner, Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

“If you make a choice to walk into the darkness, eventually you may come to know that love is the invisible glue that binds, and light is the container everything is held in. Darkness is a temporary illusion, but the light is ever present.”
― Jennifer Sodini

“Shamanism explores an area that contemporary Western science knows little about- the mind.”
― Jonathon Miller Weisberger, Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

“Result-oriented, low-tech, low-cost, shamanic medicine, uses natural elements, spirit, and the healing power of a caring community, as practiced by indigenous societies for millennia.”
― Itzhak Beery, Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World

“Shamanism uses trance states induced by rhythms, chants, or psychotropic plants to journey into spiritual worlds. Shamans consult spirits and guides to gain hidden knowledge and perform healing rituals to release emotional blockages. Vision quests, where the individual meditates alone in nature, are also common to reveal hidden aspects of ourselves.”
― Marie Chieze, Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho

“Our false beliefs stem from the collective history of humanity; we are not directly responsible for them. Our true mission is to rediscover who we really are by freeing ourselves from the negative influences residing in the unconscious to fully awaken our consciousness. It is crucial to examine our beliefs, distinguishing those that align with universal principles and resonate with our deepest aspirations.”
― Marie Chieze, Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho