WOUNDED​ HEALER
A SHAMANIC PATH TO FREEDOM
The state commonly labeled as “manic-depression” is described here not as a mental illness, but as a profound psychological process—one Jung saw as needing completion in order to reset the psyche.
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In this view, extreme mood states represent a deep encounter with the unconscious rather than a chronic disease to be suppressed.
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Contemporary psychiatry is portrayed as interrupting this inner process by chemically numbing the psyche, which is said to cause serious harm to the individual.
• The text argues that, because the mental health system is heavily financed by pharmaceutical companies, profit tends to take precedence over genuine healing.
Authors such as John Perry, R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz, Roberto Assagioli, and Carl Jung are invoked to support the idea that psychotic or manic breaks can be terrifying but meaningful encounters with the unconscious, occurring without a strong enough ego to contain the experience.
From this standpoint, such crises are not viewed as “illnesses” but as destabilizing, potentially transformative psychological events
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Responsibility is ultimately placed on each person to investigate, question, and choose a path of healing rather than automatically accepting drug-centered care
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Insider's view of Shamanic initiation
Insider's view of Shamanic initiation
Your way forward will often be met with hostility, doubt, and misunderstanding.
• Those who have never entered this altered state of consciousness—including many mental health professionals and clergy—typically have no inner reference point from which to truly help
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The initial phase of this experience generally requires about six weeks for the individual to begin reorienting to what is happening.
Periods of seclusion, along with supportive changes in diet and lifestyle, are presented as essential elements of the healing process
In earlier decades, dedicated centers such as Diabasis House, Soteria House, The Agnews Project, Burch House, and I‑Ward were created to support this process and consistently showed outcomes that validated a non‑medication approach
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These programs were eventually closed due to lack of funding, while the conventional medical model, worth billions of dollars, was expanded because it generated profit rather than simple healing.
Confronting a billion‑dollar system is extremely difficult and often futile.
A more empowering choice is to do your own research and consciously design a personal system of healing that aligns with your experience and values.
A INITIATION PROCESS
Mistaken for Mental Illness
BI-POLAR EXPERIENCE
Spiritual verses Illness
Initiation
During your first experience you are removed from the general popluation and sent to the elders who
instruct you as to what is happening and teach you ways to understand your process.
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Once you have been ‘called’ you will always have this ‘call’. Refusing to accept it is not an option it will follow you. It is part of who you are.
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You will experience another state, your own ‘divinity’ and connection to a unseen natural world.
You will experience spiritual guides and teachers.
Realizing that death and time are just an illusion
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You will experience the connection in all things.
A fact now known through quatum physics.
How every moment is in perfect balance. You will able to receive direct information from whatever you focus on. Referred to as ‘Divination”
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You will understand the constant struggle between the light and the dark forces at play in the world. In the shamanic world 'power' is neutral and is used for both good and evil.
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You will experience another reality that others do not see or understand but will not attempt to bring it into this ‘reality’.
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During a 'vision quest' the individual fasts and stays awake for extended period of time until he/she experiences a 'vision'.
(make the initiated establish contact with the spirit world)
Mental Health System
During your first experience you are removed from the general popluation and sent to the psyche ward who
instruct you as to what is happening and administer drugs
to disable the process.
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Once you have been diagnosed as bi-polar you will always have this condition. Refusing to accept this is not an option it will to follow you. It is part of who you are.
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Your condition will force you into a ‘pyschotic state’. Claiming to be God or another religious figure is very common. Losing all sense of time and fear of death.
A sympton of the illness.
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During ‘Hyper-mania’ you will be so sensitive of your surroundings, seeing aspects of others and connections that nobody else sees. Sourcing out information from all. Called ‘Flight of ideas’ referred to as a symptom of the illness.
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You experience that there is a constant battle going on between good and evil. Feeling that you are responsible to take on the side of good. Referred to as a symptom of the illness.
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You will experience another reality that others do not see or understand and attempt to bring it into this ‘reality'. Creating a ‘psychotic break’.
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During a manic phase the individual stops eating
and sleeping which proceeds the inevitable path
to a 'psychotic' break.
( contact is lost with external reality)