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“In shamanic traditions, it is invariably specified that spiritual knowledge is not marketable. Certainly, the shaman’s work deserves retribution, but, by definition, the sacred is not for sale; the use of this knowledge for the accumulation of personal power is the definition of black magic.”
― Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge