Shamanic Journeying Quotes

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.

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

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

I dream like a shaman.

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.