Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.
A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.
We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.
I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
