Magician, priest, and healer, the shaman is feared and revered in the cultures where he or she practices. A shaman is one who embarks on a path that challenges the norms of society-it's values, imagery, and sacred cows-in order to achieve the healing powers and wisdom that are its goals. He or she stands in opposition to society's highly developed, mutually agreed upon perception of reality that forms the collective dream of sleepwalking humanity. --Carlo McCormick..........For me The Doors'music relegates so much other music to mere entertainment. Morrison was a dangerous mind. He read books. Huxley, Rimbaud, Artaud, and perhaps Milton. He was an intellectual and artistic anarchist. The dynamics in Morrison's voice, its immersion in the music, the telepathy of the unit, to this day continues to amaze me. I can't think of any other band that would have enabled Morrison to reveal and realize all he did. When talking of The Doors, the sheer presence of Morrison makes us sometimes forget how brilliant Krieger,Densmore,and Manzarek were as players and songsmiths. Morrison needed a highly sympathetic sonic wilderness to wander in, and they were right there for him. It was a perfect fit. --Henry Rollins..............According to Q-Jo, the whole tarot deck, or at least the twenty-two trump cards of the Major Arcana, may be read as the Fool's journey. "on one important level," she explained, "the major cards are chapters in the story of a quest. I'm talking the universal human quest for understanding and divine reunion. And it doesn't matter whether the quest starts with the Fool or ends with him, because it's a loop anyhow, a cycle endlessly repeated. When the naive young Fool finally tumbles over the precipice, he falls into the world of experience. Now his journey has really begun. Along the way, he'll meet all the teachers and tempters-the tempters are teachers, too-and challenging situations that a person is likely to meet in the task of his or her growing. The Fool is potentially everybody, but not everybody has the wisdom or the guts to play the Fool. A lot a folks don't know what's in the bag they're carrying. And they're all too willing to trade it for cash. Inside the bag, they have every tool they need to facilitate their life's journey, but they won't even open it up and glance inside. Subconsciously, the goal of all of us out-of-control primates is essentially the same, but let me assure you of this: the only ones who'll ever reach that goal are the ones who have the courage to make fools of themselves along the way."---Tom Robbins(Half asleep in frog pajamas)
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