Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

Magic should get under people's skins.

I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.