Shamanism Quotes

“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”
― Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

“Poetry remakes and prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed world. The purest poetic act seems to re-create language from an inner experience that … reveals the essence of things.”
― Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

“In New Zealand, the deceased must pass through a very narrow space between two demons that try to capture him; if he is "light" he gets through, but if he is "heavy" he falls and becomes the demons' prey.”
― Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy