More Mythology - Shamanism

I just ran across this quote from that same Myth and Knowing Book I'm reading and I loved it, so here you go! Enjoy!

'Jonathan Ott certainly considers shamanism the first and truest religion: "Shamanic ecstasy is the real 'Old Time Religion,' of which modern churches are but pallid evocations. Shamanic, visionary ecstasy, the mysterium tremendum, the unio mystica, the eternally delightful experience of the universe as energy, is a sine qua non of religion, it is what religion is for! There is no need for faith, it is the ecstatic experience itself that gives one faith in the intrinsic unity and integrity of the universe, in ourselves as integral parts of the whole; that reveals to us the sublime majesty of our universe, and the fluctuant, scintillant, alchemical miracle that is quotidian consciouness"'.

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