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.

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

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

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

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved