“The philosopher, poet, and yogin all three have standing not too far behind them the shaman; with his or her pelt and antlers, or various other guises; songs going back to the Pleistocene and before. The shaman speaks for wild animals, the spirits of plants, the spirits of mountains, of watersheds. He or she sings for them. They sing through him. . .
“. . . In the shaman's world, wilderness and the unconscious become analogous: he who knows and is at ease in one, will be at home in the other.”
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