After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.
You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it. '
What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover. . . we are not alone.
If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [. . . ] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.