Shaman Quotes

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

“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

“From the vaulted arches several stories above us, entire, mature trees were growing, reaching leafy boughs down into the open air between the floor and ceiling. There was a full glade growing up there, oak, birch, maple, and elm, like someone had carved out a few acres of the park and fixed it there upside down.”
― Edward Williams

“Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

“Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.”
― Will Adcock, Shamanism: Rituals For Spiritual Journeying And Creating Sacred Space

“The holiday village had sprung up in Bryant Park, and the ice rink and booths were bustling with early Christmas shoppers. It smelled like fried food and scented candles, mixed with the occasional blast of diesel from the traffic inching along 42nd Street. When I think of how New York City smells, this is it.”
― Edward Williams

“Hush now sweet girl, your gentleness is often misunderstood in this world. One day it will all make sense, the torch you carry will light up your dreams. All of the experiences will serve to bring you home.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“Istagunga sought for the magic that ran beneath the soil like a network, each thread connecting all living things together. It was this immense power that held Iktomi's Web together...”
― Alannah K. Pearson, Bone Arrow

“At times, we need to be like the weed, which bends in the wind,' the old shaman eventually says.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner (161)

“The male sphere of Norse shamanism consisted of the elite warrior groups known as the berserkir ("bear-shirts") and the úlfheðnar ("wolf-skins"). The berserkers (as we'll refer to the members of both of those groups for the sake of convenience), were shamans of a very different sort. After undergoing a period of rigorous training and initiation, they developed the ability to fight in an ecstatic trance that rendered them fearless - and, according to some sources, impervious to danger - while nevertheless inspiring a tremendous amount of fear in their opponents by their behavior, which was
at once animalistic and otherworldly. Perhaps needless to say, there was no ergi associated with being a berserker. Quite the opposite, in fact - the berserker was seen as something of a model of manliness.”
― Daniel McCoy, The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion

“how will my journey change me? I asked the seeress, and she replied, seated on Hlidskjalf: 'l cannot see beyond the trees but they are calling you, only the trees.”
― Jenny Blain, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

“There’s this myth that certain cultures have a better way of handling their old leathery people, but we just called him a shaman because Fruit Roll Up with Braids wasn’t on our cultural radar.”
― Marty Barrett, Limericks of Loss And Regret: Gripping And Poignant Interludes

“Reflecting my life and the Circle of Life in my garden has been a source of Joy and has given a better understanding of the Truth of Love.”
― Melinda Joy Miller, Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden

“Radiating healing light from the inside out. Broadcasting on the highest frequency. Connecting every human being. Healing humanity, on heart at a time.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“Upon the day you were born, my heart grew ten times more. Everything you did awakened my soul at its core.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“We all stumble at times, yet in the ability to regain our footing, true heroes are made.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“Reflections of love, compassion and great empathy. Love is the only thing that is real. Believe in its magic that allows your heart to soar-Go forth, carry on and feel.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“Love is the superpower to heal one and all. Tune in, share your heart as a Universal protocol.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“If answers are produced, where do they come from: Gods, spirits, those who have gone before, the seeker's subconscious? Rational- liberal anthropology, of course, says the latter. Jungian psychology would suggest a collective-unconscious origin. The answers do not always have meaning for the speaker, but they do seem to for the questioner. Practitioners have their own answers. 'It's not archetypes and the collective unconscious, or at least it's more than that as well,' says Jordsvin. 'I expect most of this is coming from the dead people, because that's where I go.' He journeys within Hel's realm: in Norse tradition, wisdom comes from the dead, from the mound. Others may focus on deities as the source of the answers, depending on what is asked: rituals may involve deity-possession (described by Wallis 1999b: chapter 2).”
― Jenny Blain, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

“Light appearing showing me the strength I must now harness, life’s a series of songs and dances. Some are not understood until the moment our heart is ready to take chances.”
― Maria Teresa Teresa Pratico, My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth

“As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and to Sufis who practice the forty-day halvet (retreat), in which the Shaman would enter a cave, have an experience of dying, explore the spiritual realms, and then is reborn as the Initiate or Master (just as the bear is reborn each spring as it “wakes up” and leaves its cave).”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“sen bir kara şamansın. Sen yeraltında dolaşmalısın. Tüm ruhları çağırabilmeli, onlarla konuşabilmeli, tüm sırlara hakim olmalı ve ruhlara boyun eğdirebilmelisin”
― Deniz Canan, Larende’nin Varisleri Larende’nin Aynası Kısım -2

“Like sparks of light bursting from the earth, Peaches and her spirit animal dove up from the root system all at once, then ran over and through the leaves on the forest canopy, as water-worn rocks appeared beneath their feet the closer they got to the creek. A moment or so later, they were diving underneath the fast current of the shallow water, spiraling downward toward a bright beam of light emanating from the very bottom of the creek.”
― Sean Patrick Brennan, Moments to Spare

“Maria Sabina Magdalena Garcia (July 22, 1894, Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca - November 23, 1985) was a curandera and shaman of the Mazatec indigenous ethnicity of the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. She subverted patriarchal theology by invoking the Divine Feminine in her entrancing chants.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“I cannot understand how this is to come about but come about it must. It seems boy that we move within the confines of our own consciousness, would that I could expand my gaze to become aware of all the activities of my own being.”
― Geoff Widders, Flight of the Shaman

“Insignificance by Stewart Stafford

From the emerald Draco star,
Fell the coiled Rosslyn figure,
Unwinding into elongated form,
The golden crozier of St Patrick.

Faded gods upon ruined temples,
All came alive, screeching creeds,
Overwhelming minds and bodies,
Fanatics expiring from confusion.

In the shamanic ritualistic dance,
Of an in-out, Hokey-Cokey culture,
Spins the stained mah-jongg piece,
The missing link apes checkmate.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“His face started morphing into different people, shapeshifting into wise, old, Indigenous men, as though he’d lived hundreds of lives and I was seeing him as he was in each one of them. I met many different people coming through to help with healing – shamans from centuries before – and I studied creases across their faces, wrinkle lines worn like badges of wisdom, markings of lives lived.”
― Dana Da Silva, The Shift: A Memoir

“In shamanic and unconventional spiritual traditions, the connection with the Divine is seen as an inner journey, an exploration of consciousness that transcends the boundaries of institutionalized religions. These traditions emphasize the direct experience of the sacred, through meditation, spiritual journeys, or personalized rituals, highlighting the uniqueness of each spiritual path.”
― 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

“Shamanism and inner alchemy offer some of the most empowering strategies for freethinkers and other free spirits interested in ‘waking up’ enough to craft their own storyline and direct their own fate.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality