Musings on the Medicine Way

Perspective is everything. Celtic, Contemporary and Creator Wisdoms.

“Because it is not an organized religion as such, but rather a spiritual practice, shamanism cuts across all faiths and creeds, reaching deep levels of ancestral memory. As a primal belief system, which precedes established religion, it has its own symbolism and cosmology, inhabited by beings, gods, and totems, who display similar characteristics although they appear in various forms, depending upon their places of origin.”

~John Matthews, The Celtic Shaman

“…Tonight I walk. I am watching the sky. I think of the people who came before me and how they knew the placement of stars in the sky, watched the moving sun long and hard enough to witness how a certain angle of light touched a stone only once a year. Without written records, they knew the gods of every night, the small, fine details of the world around them and of immensity above them…Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. Your are the result of the love of thousands.”

~Linda Hogan

The Power of the World always works in circles, and everything
tries to be round….
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like
a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power,
whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same
religion as ours….
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and
always come back again to where they were. The life of a man
is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything
where power moves.

~Oglala Sioux Holy Man