Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone … - Michael Harner

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I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

Michael Harner

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.

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He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

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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. '

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What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover. . . we are not alone.

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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.

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Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

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