SHAMANIC
PERSPECTIVE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
by Angel-Light Love of Texas
Spiritual & Metaphysical Healing/Wellbeing Facilitator
(Spirit-Mind-Body-Environment)
April 1, 2019 on ♥Angel-Light Beamer♥
https://angel-light-love-healing.blogspot.com
I found an interesting article titled “What a Shaman Sees in a
Mental Hospital” featured on a Facebook friend’s page recently and want to
share excerpts and summarize it for readers. The link to the article is provided
at the end of this summary.
In the shamanic view, mental illness signals the birth of a healer.
Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to
be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born. Another way to say this, which may make more sense to the Western
mind, is that we in the West are not trained in how to deal or even taught to
acknowledge the existence of psychic phenomena, the spiritual world. In fact,
psychic abilities are denigrated. When energies from the spiritual world emerge
in a Western psyche, that individual is completely unequipped to integrate them
or even recognize what is happening. The result can be terrifying. Without the
proper context for and assistance in dealing with the breakthrough from another
level of reality, for all practical purposes, the person is insane. Heavy
dosing with anti-psychotic drugs compounds the problem and prevents the
integration that could lead to soul development and growth in the individual
who has received these energies. Those who develop so-called mental disorders
are those who are sensitive, which is viewed in Western culture as
oversensitivity. Indigenous cultures don’t see it that way and, as a result,
sensitive people don’t experience themselves as overly sensitive. The frenetic
pace, the bombardment of the senses, and the violent energy that characterize
Western culture can overwhelm sensitive people.
With schizophrenia, there is a special receptivity to a flow of
images and information, which cannot be controlled. When this kind of rush occurs at a time that
is not personally chosen, and particularly when it comes with images that are
scary and contradictory, the person goes into a frenzy. What is required in
this situation is first to separate the person’s energy from the extraneous [aka
superfluous] foreign energies, With the clearing of the energy field, the
person no longer picks up a flood of information and therefore, no longer has a
reason to be scared and disturbed. Then it is possible to help the person align
with the energy of the spirit being attempting to come through from the other
world and give birth to the healer. The blockage of that emergence is what
creates problems. The energy of the healer is a high-voltage energy. When it is
blocked, it just burns up the person. It’s like a short-circuit. Fuses are
blowing. This is why it can be really scary. The approach in the West is to put
people in mental hospitals. The shamanic approach is to work on aligning the
energies of the person so there is no blockage, fuses aren’t blowing, and the
person can become the healer he or she is meant to be. It needs to be noted that not all of the
spirit beings that enter a person’s energetic field are there for the purposes
of promoting healing. There are negative energies as well, which are
undesirable presences in the aura. In those cases, the shamanic approach is to
remove them from the aura, rather than work to align the discordant energies.
A common thread in [some] mental disorders in the West is “a very
ancient ancestral energy that has been placed in stasis, that finally is coming
out in the person.” The job then is to go
back in time to discover what that spirit is. In most cases, the spirit is
connected to nature. What is needed is a merger or alignment of the two
energies so they become one. The shaman conducts a specific ritual to bring
about this alignment.
One of the gifts a shaman can bring to the Western world is to
help people rediscover ritual, which is so sadly lacking. The abandonment of
ritual can be devastating. From the spiritual view, ritual is inevitable and
necessary if one is to live. There is a need for certain rituals in
general. One of these involves helping
people discover that their distress is coming from the fact that they are called
by beings from “the other world” to cooperate with them in doing healing work.
Ritual allows people to move out of the distress and accept that calling.
Again, it needs to be noted that not all of the spirit beings that enter a
person’s energetic field are there for the purposes of promoting healing. There
are negative energies as well, which are undesirable presences in the aura [and
are to be released, removed, and processed appropriately].
Taking a sacred ritual approach to mental illness is recommended--rather
than regarding the person as a pathological case
I recommend the reader go to https://consciousreminder.com/2016/12/25/shaman-sees-mental-hospital/
and read and scan the entire article. There are also other articles on the site that are informative and useful.
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