My Mysterious Son Quotes

“If the information out there echoes the information inside of us, could it be that the great turmoil of unrecognized wisdom within us is forcing us to race along the information superhighway, hoping that we will discover what we already have? —Malidoma Patrice Somé,”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“I wonder if those in Silicon Valley who shave stones to their essence and put them in machines of memory perhaps already know somehow that stones have always managed information.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“Paul R. Linde in his 1994 book, Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa. “Major mental illness cuts across all cultures,” Linde writes. “Amazingly enough, or maybe not, acutely psychotic people in Zimbabwe appear very similar to those in San Francisco. . . . They suffer from disorganized thoughts, delusions, and hallucinations. The content of the symptoms, however, is very much different . . . Zimbabweans do not report hearing auditory hallucinations of Jesus Christ, rather they report hearing those of their ancestor spirits. They are not paranoid about the FBI, rather they are paranoid about witches and sorcerers.”1”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“The larger the soul the greater the suffering. From suffering comes beauty.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
― Dick Russell, My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism