[…] the women were the shamans, and a woman became a shaman if she had a true dream. When she thought she had a true dream, she'd go to the elders and tell these women the dream she had, and they would decide whether it had been a true dream. If it was, then she was initiated by going to a sweat hut for 10 days with only water, and then 10 days of eating acorn gruel, and then 10 days of dancing inside the sweat hut with only water, and then 10 days of acorns. This continued until she could literally disgorge her dis-ease or shadow, hold it, show it, and see it. She was then asked to re-engorge it, to reclaim it. Once she had seen it inside herself, and it was back inside, she could see it everywhere and in all things. With this she became a shaman, a healer, because she had integrated her dis-ease within herself. […] When we understand that it's us and not them, we become powerful with our capacity to offer salve and succour, help and assistance, aid and generosity and healing to the world. […] The mind that heals is the mind that sees itself in everything.