“Most of being is not human. What we call ‘shamanism’ can be usefully framed as the feral and indigenous traditions for interfacing with and participating in the vastly distributed web of mind and intelligence that exists beneath, within and beyond the human order. In this sense, nearly every child is a shaman. But let’s set the language aside. What I want to convey is this: your mind is an interface and a catalyst — not a possession. Don’t use a wing like a hammer. The ‘mind’ you are is capable of forming and activating vastly distributed bodies of itself, in concert with whole other orders of life. It you think you ‘possess’ it, you have confused the password with the assets associated with its use.”

— an anonymous informant