A little About Shamans

"Shamans are describing what they have seen, what they have experienced, or what they know to be the case even if they themselves have not experienced it, much as a San Franciscan who has never been to London speaks of it as though it really exists. True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence. To them...[this] is the ordinary, the real world."

by Paula Gunn Allen found in Dance the River Whale by Ron Mercier