Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

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When I say ‘practice’ I don’t meanrepeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

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A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

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I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits, we just don’t have a collective belief system or community that recognizes the calling for what it is.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

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