The shamanic worldview, once one sees it, acts as a rekindling. It awakens you to memories of experiences or things in your life that you may have had as a child. It rekindles your enchantment with the world. It rekindles the magical child within. It gives you a feeling of greater trust. A feeling that no matter what happens to you or how bad, horrible or wonderful things are, that things are going to change. It gives you that reawakening, that quickening.
— Fred Alan Wolf, Talking Lightly by William Kooperman