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Symbols crystallize concepts; disentangle paradoxes, rhythms and patterns that the conscious mind is unable to resolve, integrating different planes of reality to reveal transcendent truths.

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Mircea Eliade

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Next stone on my wishlist: Tektite!

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Sibyl, seer, and oracle, she is on the path of significance and the pulsation of her being is like the rhythm of walking.

— Michael Harner, “The Mushrooms of Language”, from “Hallucinogens and Shamanism”
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currently reading. Love the cover art!
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One of the first cave paintings believed to be symbolic of the shaman
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Reading list

Currently reading:

-“The Way of the Shaman” by Michael Hartner

-“Shamanism: a reader” by Graham Harvey

-“An Introduction to Shamanism” by Thomas A. DuBois

-“Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes” by Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw

-“Communes in the Counter Culture: Origins, Theories, Styles of Life” by Keith Melville

Bought and next on my list:

-“Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest” by Mark J. Plotkin

-“Conscious Dreaming” by Robert Moss

Must also buy/borrow/read:

-“Earth Magic: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom for Healing Yourself, Others, and the Planet” by Steven D. Farmer

-“Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon” by Stephan B. Beyer

-“The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge” by Jeremy Narby

-“Ayahuasca in my Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming” by Peter Gorman

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Made faun horns :3 Just bought Michael Hartner’s “The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing”. I’m only finishing up the introduction and it’s incredible so far.
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