The primacy of experience lies at the heart of shamanism. This means that direct experience should come prior to dogma, culturally transmitted beliefs, preconceptions and institutionalized knowledge. It is mostly the direct experience of ourselves as multidimensional beings connected to an original unity or source. Our path is, to use Stan Grof’s term, ‘Holotropic’, that is, moving towards the whole – towards unity.

~ Gilbert Ross

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