“Shamans are describing what they have seen, what they have experienced, or what they know to be the case even if they themselves have not experienced it, much as a San Franciscan who has never been to London speaks of it as though it really exists. True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence. To them…[this] is the ordinary, the real world.”
by Paula Gunn Allen found in Dance the River Whale by Ron Mercier
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