Quotes from Healing State

Quotes from the book Healing States (1986) by Alberto Villoldo & Stanley Krippner

1. True faith is something else. Faith is that inner commitment to life that brings emotional balance to the person. P. 33
2. the model of Quantum Theory can be interested to state that our material world is created again and again before our eyes each instant we perceive it. Thus the nature of reality is in the eyes of the beholder, in the act of beholding itself. The shaman takes this one step further.... reality, from the point of view of the shaman, emerges from an individual's or society's expectations. P. 131
3. Synchronicity involves an inner psychological event that matches an external observable event; imagination probably plays an important role in establishing this connection. P. 154
4. Shamans as researchers and scientists. p. 162
5. Some researchers have taken the position that shamans and diviners are schizophrenic. These writers point to the bizarre emotional experiences which often typify a shaman's calling: the initiate may hear voices, see visions, and manifest what many psychiatrists and psychologists would term "hallucinations" and "delusions." Sometimes these manifestations are terrifying; reports of hearing the shrieks of demons or seeing one's body torn apart are not uncommon. The shamanic call is also likened to a psychotic break in that both reflect the inability to solve the practical problems of existence, taking an eccentric, idiosyncratic path instead. P. 180 8-O lol
6. "Shamans can also tell the difference between inner and outer experiences. Schizophrenics can make neither distinction easily......" P. 181 (Ratprincess: Real? 8-O Seems like the author just sentenced we schizo to death.... What about the days when the conditions are not all that bad? 8-O)
7. "Instead of hospitalizing and medicating schizophrenics, they should be treated as potential shamans and guided through their hallucinations and delusions until a degree of personal and social integration has been attained." P. 183 (Ratpricess: Wow... maybe this could be my new career... not to say I have a career already in place... 8-O lol)
8. "Schizophrenics are in altered states most of the time and are generally unable to function well in the domain of "ordinary reality."" P. 183

My favorite quote from this movie is...

If what you see is not in you, you will not be able to see...

No truer word... how else did I select them quotes? 8-O lol