“Anthropologists teach others to try to avoid the pitfalls of ethnocentrism by learning to understand a culture in terms of its own assumptions about reality. Western shamans can do a similar service with regard to cognicentrism. The anthropologists’ lesson is called cultural relativism. What Western shamans can try to create, to some degree, is cognitive relativism.” da The Way of the Shaman: The Classic Resource on Shamanism. 

(Michael Harner, antropologo esperto di sciamanismo; Washington, 27 aprile 1929 – 3 febbraio 2018)