“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”

Source: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

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Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosop… 1907–1986

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