“The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Source: The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching
“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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