Fire in the Head Quotes

“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.”
― Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit – A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Visionary Experience

“Just as twilight is neither light nor dark, but a bit of each, so is the middle head, face, or person representative of that magical blend of two opposing energies. The shaman is the twilight child, born from the union of the masculine world of light and conscious awareness and the feminine world of darkness and unconscious awareness. Shamans are at home in both worlds: in that magical space and time shimmering between these worlds, that point of consciousness 'betwixt and between' and 'neither this, nor that,' flickering at the edge of twilight.”
― Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit – A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Visionary Experience