Harner Quotes & Sayings

The lizard took the water, and
exposed the
body. — Sandra Harner

My arms look
as if blood is ...
And on my feet ...
It is dropping on my feet.
I now take the fruit and just
put it all over my body. — Sandra Harner

Life comes and goes. ... If you know that, you know it all. — Sandra Harner

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism. — Nevill Drury

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things. — Robert Brault

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself. — Sandra Harner

Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence. — Michael Harner

Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed — Michael Harner

Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected. — Michael Talbot

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work. — Roland Allen

Keep in mind that no matter how successful you were in dancing your animal, that in itself is not proof that you still have its power. You may only be dancing a memory. A successful experience does suggest, however, that you may have at least had such a guardian spirit in the past, if not now. The dancing itself, however, is no proof in itself, one way or another. — Michael Harner

There's beauty and there's ugliness. You have to love both. — Sandra Harner

Manicured grounds of well-hidden mansions. At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner — Kasey Michaels

You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it.' — Michael Harner

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. — Michael Chekhov

If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [ ... ] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it. — Michael Harner

He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. — Michael Harner

she nearly tipped ass over teakettle through the opening. — Laura Harner

I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.
There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain in there. It, it is just a skull. And still he felt he had to open it
to let energy in there. — Sandra Harner

I am walking down to the oak tree. And
I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but
I jump in
and walk
slowly
through the lava tube.
It is fairly dark, but I see in the far distance,
like a pinhead,
a light.
Sort of yellowish, actually. — Sandra Harner

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols — Michael Harner

Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future. — Sandra Harner

The blue light is all over. Actually it is within my body. Makes my joints feel all warm.
Vulture thinks I talk too much. — Sandra Harner

Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same. — Mykyta Isagulov

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved — Michael Harner

I have an image of
Turtle
right on the forehead.
She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of
like swimming. — Sandra Harner

I am in the river now. I must have fallen. And I am in this river.
And I am just washed away
by the current of
the river.
This is not a river. It is just a small
rivulet. — Sandra Harner

Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important. — Sandra Harner

Her figure wasn't bad. Maybe a little round at the breasts and hips, but she was a woman, damn it, not a stick figure. — L.E. Harner

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything. — Duane Michals

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy. — Sandra Harner

Saints and mystics, revelations, origin myths, and heroes' journeys, as well as ethical and spiritual guidelines, speak to us from ancient times and far-flung lands and peoples. — Sandra Harner

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone. — Michael Harner

Take your thoughts off.
The invading
thoughts you have. Push them aside. See your future in a
bright way. Don't struggle with the past. It is gone. Look
for the future. Look for the future. — Sandra Harner

Honestly," continued Isaiah, watching Christian, "I can't decide which I want more: to kill you or have you join us. Either option offers its own amusements."
"Don't you ever get tired of hearing yourself talk?" asked Christian. — Richelle Mead

Turtle is putting seaweed all over me. It is the big turtle. She is so big that she can regurgitate
seaweed over me. It comes out of her mouth like
coming from a spoud of a fountain, which is actually a very nice feeling. It is not sticky at all. It is just
a very nice clean feeling and it is a wonderful ocean smell
about it. — Sandra Harner

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view. — Paddy Considine

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind. — George W. Bush

So much of science proceeds by telling stories. — Stephen Jay Gould