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

- Michael Harner

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…

- Michael Harner

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

- Michael Harner

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

- Michael Harner

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, wh…

- Michael Harner

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

- 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, inc…

- Michael Harner

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

- Michael Harner