Quotes

As we progress on this life's journey we all need to remember that this chapter of our story is still unwritten. Take the time to free your minds by asking yourself "what if"... Take some time to enjoy these quotes. If you have any you'd liket to add send them my way and I'll get them posted.

Aloha and many blessings,

Runninghawlk

Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, And though we seem to be sleeping, There is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, And that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. - Rumi

"The shaman... is embodied by ancestors and other cultural heroes. These spirits are sanctioned by the community and thus are not repressed or dissociated." (Yap 1960)

"Coessence; in contrast to both transcendence and immanence, locates shamanic power and spiritual energy upon which shamans draw neither within nor without the boundaries of this world. Instead, coessence implies that this thing flows between worlds. When the shaman taps into this source of power, she is not transcending dichotomies and she is not healing "on behalf of" her patients. Instead she is facilitating a reestablishment of the energy flow between spirit and matter, between individual and group, and between shaman and patient. Shamanic power and shamanic voyage are thus, inherently relational." - Glass-Coffin; 1998; The Gift of Life

"Magic is like any knowledge. When you get to know it, it just looks like another department of science." - Maiidoma Patrice Some

All of our lessons are integrated at an energetic level. "The Shaman is someone who has learned how to live in ambiguity - who sees themselves as part of the world and the world as a part of them" - Tom Cowan

"When fear no longer lives in our belly, compassion blooms; when scarcity no longer resides, we experience the abundant love of the universe. When grief no longer dwells in us, we can change the world. In the Shaman's work, understanding always follows healing. Change happens first at the core energetic level, and then the intellect gets it. In contrast, in the West we insist that understanding must precede healing. However, the shaman knows that true transformation can never be preceded by the intellect." - Alberto Villoldo

"At some point the shaman's must meet the dark side of their consciousness. In each of us there is a Fomorian strain that might be the cause of our anger, our resentments, our blowups, and our self-destructive impulses. But because the shaman is concerned with healing power, they will, at some point, discover the power that exists within this part of us as well. The shaman must then decide how to transform this so-called negative energy so that it can be made to work towards the whole, towards healing, and for doing good work." - Tom Cowan