Wes Craven

I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.

American Director

Andrew Motion

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

English Poet

Genesis P-Orridge

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

English Musician

Alessandro Michele

My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.

Italian Designer

Ken Kesey

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

American Author

Stanislav Grof

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

Chilean Director

Billy Corgan

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

American Musician

Josh Tillman

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

Roy Choi

South Korean Chef

Understand that 'shaman' refers to a role in certain cultures; using it respectfully avoids cultural appropriation.

Cultural Respect

'Shaman' is not just a fantasy term; it's based on real spiritual leaders with cultural significance.

Not Fantasy

Although 'shaman' has a mystical sound, remember it often implies healing and guidance, not just magic.

Spiritual Healer

 the meaning and purpose of cave art. Some scholars think cave paintings were created by shamans who would go deep into caves and enter a trance-like state, drawing animals they encountered in the spirit world. Symbols repeated across artworks may indicate that those symbols

Cave Art 101 PIPE National...

 started when I was there we walked three days I saw the track of one deer nothing else a sambar deer there was nothing else there but these guys are out surveying and this man here was local shaman said he has a tiger that come to

Steve Winter: On the...

 Paraguay's famed here's a shaman whose knowledge of medicinal plants equals that of a medical library Paraguay has one of the highest afforestation rates in the world and there's a hope to record the shamans knowledge before the

Rain Forest Shaman PIPE...

 full of luxuriant vegetation, in which isolated peoples can remain in isolation, can maintain that mystery and that knowledge if they so choose. Let's live in a world where the shamans live in these forests

Mark Plotkin: What the...

 the length means life and is where we find the medicine when somebody seek they come to the shaman and sharma they push you to tell him why the dreamer in the last month or last days we can go

Brazil’s indigenous...

 a collective term for shamans of various ethnic groups. They were the community healers, specialists in herbal and divine lore. They delivered babies and communicated with the spirit world.

The gender-fluid history...

 from depths beyond history local shamans say this lake was formed when the earth split open revealing a pillar of flames reaching to the sky quenched only by deepest floodwaters

Uncover the Mysteries of...

 would be out of the question the procedure will also damage polanyi's teeth shortening their life the shamans aim is true although he's only performed tooth filing once before

Teeth Chiseling PIPE...

 It was just part of their everyday life. They drink its water. They take in its vapor. They cook with it, clean with it, even make their medicines with it. I met the shaman,

How I found a mythical...

 Back at camp, the villagers were fishing with barbasco poison, cooking, and eating. Only the shaman’s little sister refrained. Then, everyone else fell into a deep sleep.