Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.