PART I: WHO, WHERE, WHEN, AND WHAT IS A SHAMAN?
Reality is more complex…: Rabbi Yannai, in Shapiro, 1993, p. 38.
Chapter 2: Why The World of Shamanism?
A new intellectual understanding…: Grof, 1985, p. 341.
Chapter 3: What Is a Shaman? The Challenge of Definition
If names be not correct…: Confucius, in Smith, 1958, p. 182.
For more than a century…: Francfort & Hamayon, 2001, p. 4.
the closest thing we have…: Noel, 1999, p. 107.
It is henceforth one of the…: Hadot, 2001, p. 398.
The problems of definition…: Abelson, 1967, p. 314.
philosophy is a battle against…: Wittgenstein, 1969, p. 109.
Existence is beyond the power…: Lao Tzu, in Bynner, 1980, p. 25.
All human thought proceeds…: Smith, 1958, p. 182.
In all Tungus languages this term…: Shirokogoroff, 1935, p. 269.
only defining attribute is that…: Peters & Price-Williams, 1980, p. 408.
A first definition of this complex…: Eliade, 1964, p. 4.
the shaman specializes in a trance…: Eliade, 1964, p. 5.
a man or woman who enters an altered state…: Harner, 1982, p. 25.
shamanism is ultimately only a method…: Harner, 1985, pp. 328–329.
Chapter 4: The When and Where of Shamanism: Origins and Distribution
Man is the being who…: Barrett, 1962, p. 229.
Anthropologists are fond of reminding…: Brown, 2001, p. 251.
insist that sorcerers, when discovered…: Brown, 2001, p. 252.
PART II: THE BIG PICTURE
Each being contains in itself…: Huxley, 1945, p. 5.
Chapter 5: Essential Spirituality:
Central Principles and Practices of Spiritual Life
Although there is a great number…: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, in Gyatso, 1988, p. 103.
every virtue requires other virtues…: Murphy, 1992, p. 558.
which virtue is the most important?...: Palmer, Sherrard, & Ware, 1993, p. 160.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality…: Confucius, in Lau, 1979, 17:23.
If one plumbs, investigates into…: Lu Shiang-Shan, in Creel, 1953, p. 213.
This Mind is the Buddha: Huang Po, in Blofeld, 1958, p. 29.
Here, in my own soul, the greatest…: Meister Eckhart, in Harvey, 1998, p. 92.
the Self is that one, immutable…: Aurobindo, 1922, p. 115.
Regard your neighbor’s gain…: Tai Shang Kon Ying P’ien, in Penner, 1993, p. 43.
Rare are those who understand ethics: Confucius, in Lau, 1979, p. 132.
Whatever you do, you do to yourself: The Buddha, in Byrom, 1976, p. 118.
whatever is…thought to be necessary…: Gampopa, 1971, p. 271.
I could follow the dictates of my own heart…: Confucius, in Waley, 1989, p. 88.
At first, precepts (ethics) are a practice…: Kornfield, 1993, p. 298.
Everything from ruler, minister, husband, wife…: Wang Yang Ming, in Chan, 1963, p. 661.
Emotions of the soul should be watched…: Maimonides, in Hoffman, 1985, p. 85.
All you want is to be happy…: Nisargadatta, 1973, p. 241.
The learning of the great person…: Wang Yang Ming, in Chan, 1963, p. 660.
Control the mind…: Chuang Tzu, in Merton, 1969, p. 121.
No subject occupies a more central…: Schumacher, 1973, p. 67.
Attention cannot be continuously sustained: James, 1962, p. 51.
Be still and know that I am God: The Bible, in Ramana Maharishi, 1984, p. 53.
When, through the practice of yoga…: Bhagavad Gita, in Prabhavananda & Isherwood, 1972, p. 66.
When water is still it is like a mirror…: Chuang Tzu, in Giles, 1969, p. 47.
sees what the eyes sees…: Chuang Tzu, in Merton, 1985, p. 149.
mindfulness…is helpful everywhere: The Buddha, in Nyanaponika Thera, 1962, p. 150.
Awareness per se—by and of itself—can be curative: Perls, 1969, p. 16.
Happy are those who find wisdom…: Jewish Torah, in Proverbs 3:13, 17, 4:5.
He who is learned is not wise: Perry, 1981, p. 739.
Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self-known: Lao Tzu, in Bynner, 1980, #33.
All that one gives one gives to oneself…: Maharshi, 1988, p. 8.
Make it your guiding principle…: Confucius, in Lau, 1979, p. 116.
The best way to become…: Maslow, 1970, p. xii.
Be kind to all: Mohammad, in Angha, 1995, p. 19.
Chapter 6: What Is a Hero? Life’s Aims and Games
What people really need…: De Ropp, 1968, p. 11.
Life games reflect life aims…: De Ropp, 1968, p. 12.
The kingdom of heaven is within you: Jesus, Luke 17:21 (King James Version).
Those who know themselves know their Lord: Mohammad, in Perry 1981, p. 855.
Atman and Brahman are one: A frequent theme in the Hindu scriptures, the Upanishads.
Look within, you are the Buddha: Buddhist saying.
is that man is asleep…: De Ropp, 1968, p. 19.
It still remains the most…: De Ropp, 1968, p. 21.
The normal adjustment of the average…: Maslow, 1968, p. 14.
Many are called, but few are chosen: Jesus, in Matthew 22:14 (New International Version).
The study of virtue and vice…: Plato, 1961, p. 1591.
The holy man goes to the lone…: Sioux Indian, in Curtis, 1907, pp. 38–39.
accepts the pains and duties in the…: Underhill, 1974, pp. 140, 173.
PART III: THE LIFE OF THE SHAMAN
The words “many are called…: Jung, 1964, p. 173.
Chapter 7: Times of Trial: The Initial Call and the Initiation Crisis
If you bring forth what is within you…: Jesus, in The Gospel of Thomas.
Mother was put on a very strict…: Rasmussen, 1929, pp. 116–118.
Everyone knew precisely what…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 54.
our fathers have inherited from…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 56.
evidence does exist that some...: Laughlin, McManus, & d’Aquili, 1992, pp. 186–187.
I had a wonderful dream…: Nepalese shaman, in Ashok & Skafte, 2001, p. 235.
Hear my words…: Jewish Torah, in Numbers 12:16 (Revised Standard Version).
The rejection of the “spirits” is…: Bogoras, 1909, p. 419.
“sicknesses,” attacks, dreams, and hallucinations…: Eliade, 1964, p. 35.
For men the preparatory stage…: Bogoras, 1909, p. 420.
When I was 13, I became possessed…: Nepalese shaman, in Peters, 1987, p. 164.
Chapter 8: A Life of Learning: Shamanic Training and Discipline
The greatest of all wonders…: Durant, 1938, p. 360.
First gain control of the body…: Chuang Tzu, in Merton, 1969, p. 121.
If you aim to live by such principles…: Epictetus, 1995, p. 4.
The person who hasn’t conquered…: Maslow, 1968, p. 4.
I have inquired, carefully and most…: Eckhart, 1981, p. 285.
Today this trance occurs…: Blacker, 1986, p. 23.
During the first part of the discipline…: Blacker, 1986, p. 88.
To stand under a waterfall…: Blacker, 1986, p. 92.
The power of solitude is great…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 114.
Then I sought solitude…: Rasmussen, 1929, pp. 118–119.
sudden apparently unprecipitated wide…: Walsh, 1977, p. 161.
man is not even master in…: Freud, 1938, p. 252.
all scriptures without any exception…: Ramana Maharshi, 1955, p. 63.
Strange unknown beings came…: Rasmussen, 1927, pp. 82–84.
The only true wisdom lives…: Ostermann, 1952, p. 99.
when a man has learned…: Yalom, 1980, p. 398.
Chapter 9: The Culmination of the Quest: Shamanic Enlightenment
In order that the mind should…: Plato, 1945, p. 516.
For the rest of my life I want to reflect…: Einstein, in Russell, 1992, p. 155.
Clearly, the ‘inner light’ that…: Eliade, 1964, p. 420.
a wonderful light arose within…: Boehme, in Metzner, 1998, p. 170.
This was much more than a simple…: Lusseryan, 1998, pp. 16–21.
Those who seek the light are merely…: Anonymous, 1992, p. 357.
the next thing an old shaman has to…: Rasmussen, 1929, pp. 112–113.
And then in the midst of such a fit…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 119.
Where there is no vision…: Proverbs 29:18 (King James Version).
Chapter 10: The Culmination of the Quest: Death and Rebirth
It is only in the face of death…: St. Augustine, in Yalom, 1980, p. 30.
Let me know how fleeting my life is: Psalms 39:4 (Revised Standard Version).
Death is a good advisor: Mohammad, in Angha, 1995, p. 82.
A confrontation with one’s personal death…: Yalom, 1980, p. 30.
the most radical and total transformation…: Metzner, 1998, p. 136.
Before a shaman attains the stage…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 114.
they are cut up by demons or…: Fabrega & Silver, 1970, p. 203.
Physical and emotional agony culminates…: Grof, 1980, p. 85.
Death is a mirror in which…: Rinpoche, 1992, p. 11.
Powerful experiential sequences of dying…: Grof, 1988, p. 234.
A grain of wheat remains a solitary grain…: John 12:24 (Revised Standard Version).
PART IV: DIAGNOSING THE SHAMAN
Each investigator most readily sees…: Jung, 1953, pp. 40–43.
Chapter 11: Devil, Madman, Saint, or Sage? The Eye of the Beholder
people of evil custom who have…: Thevet, 2001, p. 13.
drink that rude potion of tobacco: Biet, 2001, p. 17.
May not one of them return!…: Petrovich, 2001, p. 19.
the shaman is mentally deranged…: Devereux, 2001, p. 120.
The negative picture of the shaman…: Kakar, 1982, p. 90.
Devoid of the personal experience of…: Noll, 1983, p. 452.
it is as if Freud supplied to us…: Maslow, 1968, p. 5.
virulent influence of Freudian psychoanalytic…: Noll, 1984, p. 192.
the obvious similarities between…: Alexander & Selesnich, 1966, p. 372.
Who are…the greatest benefactors…: Toynbee, 1948, p. 156.
only by those whose intellectual inquiry…: Wilber, 2000, p. 157.
brush aside its dark truths: Brown, 2001, p. 256.
Chapter 12: Primitive Madmen:
Assessing Traditional Views of Shamans as Psychologically Disturbed
The most typical picture of hysterical…: Shirokogoroff, 1935, p. 347.
A curious and not fully explored…: Nemiah, 1985, p. 950.
an outright psychotic: Devereux, 1961, p. 285.
grossly non-reality-oriented ideation…: Silverman, 1967, pp. 22–23.
Chapter 13: Putting Shamans to the Test:
Measuring Personality and Spiritual Mastery
the masters were enmeshed in their…: Jonte-Pace, 2004, p. 143.
One would almost believe that…: Jonte-Pace, 2004, p. 146, 148.
Chapter 14: Spiritual Emergency and Spiritual Emergence?
New Views of Shamans’ Health
of external facts we have had enough…: Barrett, 1962, p. 23.
is not only a sick man…: Eliade, 1964, p. 27.
shamanism is not a disease but…: Ackerknecht, 1943, p. 46.
show proof of a more than normal…: Eliade, 1964, p. 29.
our greatest blessings come to us…: Lukoff, 1985, p. 155.
some patients have a mental illness…: Lukoff, 1985, p. 157.
dispels fear, but also blinds: Castaneda, 1969, p. 80.
spirit [is] constantly striving for release…: Perry, 1986, p. 33, 34, 36.
if you deliberately plan to be less…: Maslow, 1971, p. 36.
Among the Sedang Moi, a person who…: Devereux, 1956/2001, p. 119.
Transpersonal crises of this type bear…: Grof & Grof, 1986, pp. 10–11.
Individuals whose spiritual crises follows…: Grof & Grof, 1986, p. 11.
with good support, experiences of this kind…: Grof & Grof, 1986, p. 15.
if a person undergoing this turmoil…: Perry, 1986, p. 35.
Chapter 15: Shamanic Trickery: The Tricks of the Trade
There can be no doubt, of course…: Bogoras, 1909, p. 429.
During our stay at South Hampton Island…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 147.
If now a shaman desires to injure…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 122.
I believe I am a better shaman than others…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 132.
Plainly, the shaman’s tricks serve as…: Warner, 1980, p. 43.
he then ‘vomits’ out this object and…: Harner, 1973, p. 24.
It is difficult for a healer to doubt…: Warner, 1980, p. 49.
PART V: THE SHAMAN’S UNIVERSE
Many of the transpersonal experiences…: Grof, 1985, p. 341.
Chapter 16: Many Worlds
A sensible man prefers the…: Lao Tzu, in Bynner, 1944, p. 31.
The pre-eminently shamanic technique…: Eliade, 1964, p. 259.
The essential schema is always to be…: Eliade, 1964, p. 259.
the mind is being used to gain access…: Harner, 1987, p. 4.
a cosmotheological concept into a….: Eliade, 1964, p. 21.
The shamans did not create the cosmology…: Eliade, 1964, p. 266.
Shamanism ultimately is only a method…: Harner, 1987, pp. 4–5.
Chapter 17: Many Spirits
Glendower: I can call spirits…: Shakespeare, Henry IV (Part I, Act III, Scene I).
the extreme importance of ‘spirit visions’…: Eliade, 1964, p. 85.
For three days and nights the two men…: Loeb, 1929, p. 60, 84.
fantasize a large part of the time…: Wilson & Barber, 1982, p. 340.
Everyone may educate and regulate his imagination…: Noll, 1987, p. 47.
All this long and tiring ceremony…: Eliade, 1964, pp. 87–88.
a man who has immediate concrete experiences…: Eliade, 1964, pp. 87–88.
they can appear in the form of bears…: Eliade, 1964, p. 89.
most valuable and rewarding phenomena: Grof, 1988, p. 121.
From sanyama on the strength: Shearer, 1989, p. 98, 3:24.
During the period of initial contact…: Siikala, 1978, p. 228.
Chapter 18: Mediums: Channels for the Spirits?
opening of the gate of words: Walraven, 2001, p. 346.
After crossing the Halys…: Hastings, 1991, p. 52.
Leah, a sixth density entity from the planet Venus…: Schultz, 1989, p. 56.
whence she returned with colorful descriptions…: Nemiah, 1985, p. 950.
higher intelligences have got to be smarter…: Wilber, 1988, p. 14.
Having no belief in God…: Skutch, 1984, p. 134.
the three books comprise one of…: Skutch, 1984, p. 127.
perhaps the most important writing in the…: Skutch, 1984, p. i.
The Course is clearly inspired…: Wilber, 1988, p. 34.
The Course is the most systematic spiritual…: Hastings, 1991, p. 24.
consist solely of strings of loosely associated…: Reed, 1989, p. 385, 390, 388.
The unity of consciousness is illusory…: Hilgard, 1986, p. 1.
just the opposite of what one would expect…: Thomason, 1989, p. 393.
Chapter 19: What Is a “Spirit”?
Several volumes would be needed for an…: Eliade, 1964, pp. 5–6.
I saw with my own eyes a large gray blob…: Turner, 2001, p. 260.
for the most part, grossly and transparently fake: Sante, 2006, p. 17.
From my studies with hypnosis I know…: Tart, in Klimo, 1987, p. 223.
suddenly there appeared from the right a winged…: Jung, 1961, pp. 182–183.
a stream of cool water circulating through…: Achterberg, 1985, p. 98.
Tao is beyond words: Merton, 1969, p. 152.
Things keep their secrets: Heraclitus, 2001, p. 9.
Reality is steeped in mystery…: Smith, 1991, p. 389.
stands at the cradle of true art…: Einstein, in Mallove, 1986, p. 12.
Chapter 20: Cosmic Traveling: The Shamanic Journey
We must close our eyes and invoke…: Plotinus, in O’Brien, 1964, p. 42.
Any ecstatic cannot be considered a shaman…: Eliade, 1964, p. 5.
he commands the techniques of ecstasy…: Eliade, 1964, p. 182.
an ineffable joy in what he sees…: Harner, 1982, p. 27.
Entrances into the Lowerworld commonly lead…: Harner, 1982, p. 32.
A shaman about to make this journey…: Rasmussen, 1929, pp. 123–127.
the cause of Takánakapsâluk’s anger is explained…: Rasmussen, 1929, p. 129.
Chapter 21: A World of Ecstatics: Journeys in Other Religious Traditions
Divine reality is infinite…: Ramakrishna, in Hixon, 1992, p. 11.
glory be to Him, who carried…: Koran, Surah 17:1–2.
if I would go one step further…: Schimmel, 1975, p. 219.
eyes swayed not, nor swept astray…: Koran, Surah 53:17–18.
He fell to the ground…: Acts 9:4, 8, 9 (New Revised Standard Version).
I will go on to visions and revelations…: 2 Corinthians 12:1–4 (New Revised Standard Version).
Which I had heard speaking,..: Revelation 4:1 (English Standard Version).
moral purity, rabbinic learnedness…: Blumenthal, 1978, p. 90.
when a man is worthy and blessed with certain…: Ariel, 1988, p. 22.
harsh, fearful terrifying… Bolts of lightening…: Blumenthal, 1978, p. 63.
The mystic who in his ecstasy has passed…: Scholem, 1946, p. 56.
For on the day of the New Year of the year…: Baal Shem Tov, in Ullman & Reichenberg-Ullman, 2001, p. 79.
Up to the Cracks of Heaven…: Kohn, 1993, pp. 256–257.
by sinking deep in rapture within the confines…: Robinet, 1989, p. 164.
frolics in the paradise protected by them…: Robinet, 1989, p. 168.
Adepts visualize the pure energy of the…: Kohn, 1993, p. 267.
In all cases, first undertake purifications…: Kohn, 1993, p. 259.
To attain the Tao through ecstatic excursions…: Kohn, 1993, p. 250.
To practice the Tao excursion to the seven…: Kohn, 1993, p. 257-258.
Once the tour of the whole universe…: Robinet, 1989, p. 167.
The greatest of all wonders is not the conqueror…: Durant, 1968, p. 360.
Chapter 22: The Varieties of Journey Experiences:
Dream, Out-of-Body, Near-Death, and Abduction Experiences
Maybe you and I are still in a dream…: Chuang Tzu, in Feng & English, 1974, p. 136.
You do not understand even life…: Confucius, in Lau, 1979, XI:12, p. 107.
Visit the graves: Mohammad, in Sayed, 1969, p. 92.
Death is a good adviser: Mohammad, in Angha, 1995, p. 82.
I recommend almost dying…: Sagan. in Kornfield, 2000, p. 38.
The shaman, then, is a master of death…: Kalweit, 1988, p. 15, 11.
We are such stuff…: Shakespeare, in The Tempest (IV.1).
a person must control his thoughts…: Ibn El-Arabi, in Shah, 1971, pp. 155–156.
witnessing the process of dreaming…: Shearer, 1989, I:38, p. 64.
Then prayer never stops in a man’s soul: Saint Isaac, in Harvey, 1998, p. 63.
It’s surprising that more of the neighbors…: Sagan, 1993, p. 5.
Which is more likely—that we’re undergoing…: Sagan, 1993, p. 5.
approximately nine out of ten persons…: Harner, 1985, p. 452.
Chapter 23: Interpreting and Researching Journeys
What is this awesome mystery…: Symeon, in McGuckin, 2003, p. 160.
when she takes leave of the body and…: Socrates, in Jowett, 1953, p. 65.
There is no difference between the…: Ramana Maharshi, in Osborne, 1962, p. 193.
PART VI: SHAMANIC TECHNIQUES
This is why it is so difficult to explain…: Satprem, 1968, p. 84.
Chapter 24: The Politics of Consciousness
After hypnotizing a man with a gangrenous leg…: Tart, 1986, p. 80.
a necessarily relevant question to the study...: Hamayon, 1998, p. 177.
is the counterpart of ethnocentrism between…: Harner, 1982, p. xvii.
a striking finding and suggests that we are…: Bourguignon, 1973, p. 11.
desire to alter consciousness periodically…: Weil, 1972, p. 17.
Ritual is the husk of true faith: Tao Te Ching, in Mitchell, 1992, #38.
the modern-day successors of shamans…: Hamayon, 1998, p. 181.
trance occurs only rarely…: Blacker, 1986, p. 23.
Chapter 25: Transforming Consciousness:
Contemporary Understandings and Shamanic Methods
It is the quality of your consciousness…: Tolle, 1999, p. 174.
has as its object transforming the apprentice…: Eliade, 1964, pp. 84–85.
we have been making music since the dawn…: Weinberger, 2004, p. 90.
But now bring me a minstrel…: 2 Kings 3:15 (Revised Standard Version).
Dancing, music and other exaggerations…: Underhill, 1974, p. 58.
Chapter 26: Psychedelics and Entheogens: Revealers of the Divine Within?
The observations from psychedelic…: Grof, in Roberts & Hruby, 2002, pp. 76–77.
For several hours after drinking the brew…: Harner, 1973, pp. 16–17.
on the day following one Ahayuasca party…: Stafford, 1992, p. 353.
after 30 years of discussion, the question…: Grof, 2001, p. 270.
There are, of course, innumerable drug…: Smith, 1964, pp. 520, 523.
Descriptively drug experiences cannot be…: Smith, 1964, p. 523.
the principle of causal indifference: Stace, 1988, p. 29.
Drugs appear to induce religious experiences…: Smith, 1964, pp. 528–529.
Even the Buddha continued to sit…: Smith, 2000, p. 31.
Chapter 27: Divination and Diagnosis
Humans respond not to events but to…: Frank, 1982, p. 4.
Projection makes perception…: Anonymous, 1992, p. 248.
The one who is to consult the spirits…: Rasmussen, 1929, pp. 141–142.
then all in the house must confess any breaches…: Rasmussen, 1929, pp. 128–129.
Chapter 28: How Do They Heal?
Oral reports, ethnographic studies, travelers’ records…: Harner, 2004, p. 16.
Psychotherapy is a planned, emotionally charged…: Frank, 1985, pp. 49–50.
The strain for survival may be intense…: Rogers, 1982, p. 133.
Ritual, through its formal properties…: Evans, 1996, pp. 1121, 1122.
formal, patterned, and stereotyped public…: Evans, 1996, p. 1121.
a symbolic device integral to the communication…: Evans, 1996, pp. 1121, 1123.
psychotherapy and related cultural processes…: Rossi, 2004, p. 13.
Simply stated, the regulation of gene…: Kandel, 1998, p. 460.
Without the transcendent and the transpersonal…: Maslow, 1968, p. iv.
With song, one can open the gates of heaven: Hoffman, 1981, p. 163.
The more popular a shaman becomes…: Skultans, 1986, p. 262.
A cheerful heart is good medicine…: Proverbs 17:22 (New International Version).
a poorly understood process in which…: Hurley, 1985, p. 4.
a kind of superintelligence that exists…: Thomas, 1980, p. 65.
If the patient really has confidence in me…: Sandner, 1979, pp. 17–18.
Chapter 29: Healing the Healer: How Do They Heal Themselves?
Physician, heal thyself: Luke 4:23 (King James Version).
The shaman must first…: Hoppal, 1987, p. 84.
while the shaman…: Bogoras, 1909, p. 419.
you may see dead persons…: Elkin, 1977, p. 70.
All that one gives…: Ramana Maharshi, 1988, p. 8.
goes far beyond a self-concerned…: Harner, 1982, p. 139.
never deserts benevolence: Confucius, in Lau, 1979, p. 72.
self-actualizing people…: Maslow, 1970, p. 28.
Finding the center of strength…: May, 1953, p. 79.
The best way to become…: Maslow, 1970, p. xii.
In shamanism there is…: Harner, 1982, p. 139.
I don’t know what your…: Schweitzer, www.quotationspage.com/collections.html#20thcent.
Chapter 30: Shamans and Psi: What Is the Evidence?
vast parapsychological…: Long, 1982, p. 49
not a single individual…: Hansel, 1980, p. 314.
There is no source…: James, in McDermott, 1977, p. 787.
abhors the exhibition of occult forces: Govinda, 1970, p. 82.
My own hunch…: Frank, 1985, p. 72.
In the course of a great joyous…: Barker, 1980, p. 175.
Made one of his “spirits”…: Bogoras, 1909, p. 436.
There can be no doubt…: Bogoras, 1909, p. 429.
was never able to break…: Rogo, 1987, p. 138.
psi masters….veritable…: Wescott, 1977, p. 340.
in my own clinical experience…: Grof, 2001, pp. 276, 278.
The statistical results of the…: Utts, in Radin, 1997, pp. 4–5.
The fault, dear Brutus is not…: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (I, ii).
PART VII: THE SHAMAN’S MIND
One conclusion was forced…: James, 1958, p. 29.
Chapter 31: Shamanic States of Mind
The mind is its own place…: Milton, in Paradise Lost, Book 1, Line 253.
shamans, yogis and Buddhists…: Doore, 1988, p. 223.
experiences existential unity…: Kalweit, 1988, p. 23.
Chapter 32: Comparing States of Mind:
Shamans, Yogis, Meditators, and Schizophrenics
If mind is comprehended…: Ratnamegha Sutra, in Nyanaponika, 1962, p. 21.
The tortoise can draw in his legs…. Prabhavananda & Isherwood, 1972, p. 42.
Yoga is the settling of the mind…: Shearer, 1989, p. 49, I: 2–4.
an invulnerable state in which…: Elide, 1958, p. 78.
Yoga cannot possibly be confused…: Eliade, 1969, p. 339.
Chapter 33: How High Do They Fly? Levels of Consciousness
The exploration of the highest…: Maslow, 1968, p. 71.
the settling of the mind into silence…: Shearer, 1989, p. 49, 1–2.
Be still and know that I am God: Psalms 46:10.
Leave the senses…: Saint Dionysius, in Harvey, 1998, p. 50.
Spirit is self-existent…: Aurobindo, 1922, p. 144.
By Himself he sees Himself,…: Ibn Arabi, in Vaughan-Lee, 1995, p. 179.
we never find the mystical union…: Hultkrantz, 1978, p. 42.
if mysticism is not restricted…: Hultkrantz, 1978, p. 28.
Chapter 34: The Evolution of Consciousness
In the history of the collective…: Jung, 1969, p. 272.
Ninety-nine percent of all the species…: Ferris, 1988, p. 389.
The world was created on 22nd October…: Nisker, 1990, p. 141.
Our most powerful story. Thomas, 1974, p. 122.
survival machines…: Dawkins, 1976, p. x.
The probability that human intelligence…: Grof, 1985, p. 23.
As for the ‘inner light’ which plays…: Eliade, 1964, p. 508.
shamans, yogis and Buddhists…: Doore, 1988, p. 223.
experiences existential unity…: Kalweit, 1988, p. 236.
The consciousness of each of us…: Teilhard de Chardin, 1964, p. 221.
Chapter 35: The Shaman’s Brain: Neurotheology and Neuromythology
Medical materialism seems indeed…: James, 1958, p. 29.
Chapter 36: Shamanism(s) in a Changing World
It is an invented tradition…: Townsend, 2004, p. 4.
Overall, I suggest that shamanism…: Vitebsky, 1995/2001, p. 297.
you are more than this puny body…: Kapleau, 1965, p. 143.
the I, one’s real, most intimate self…: Harman, 1979, p. 14.
Out of my experience…: James, in Murphy & Ballou, 1960, p. 324.
A human being is part of the whole…: Einstein, in Goldstein, 1983, p. 126.
See yourself in others…: Byrom, 1976, p. 49.