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
WOUNDED HEALER
"Wounded Healer" is a term used in the alternative healing circles to denote a individual who has taken responsibility for their situation and have moved through it. My book "Manic-Depression: Illness or Awakening" is a story of a Wounded Healer. It is my story, a story that continues to move forward. It is a story of how I discovered what others cannot see. That the experienced called "Manic-Depression" is not what our mental health system says it is.
My book follows my path as I refuted the notion that my experience was a mental illness. It covers fifteen years of my life. Five manic phases and three hospitalizations. Exploring each and every facet of my experiencies. Holding on to my sanity as my mind tried to run away. Each time gaining alittle more insight, another piece of the puzzle.
Add another twenty years since the publishing of my book I can now say that I found the answers I been searching for. My experience is actually a 'awakening' of ones' soul to the divinity that we all share. A aspect of human development that our society has been destroying through our own ignorance.
Our mental health system has it wrong. Those early pioneer's who put their reputation and career's on the line had it correct. Harvard trained Richard Alpert,aka Ram Dass, John Perry-"Trials of the Visionary Mind", Thomas Szasz, "The Myth of Mental Illness", Roberto Assagioli, "Psychosynthesis", Carl Jung, the leading psychistrist in the last seventy-five years, Loren Mosher, founder of Soteria house, alternative treatment center, shutdown in US but thriving in several countries in Europe. These are just a few individuals that looked at mental illness as something other than what our mental health system claims.
I have answers. I have traveled this path and found my way out of the labyrinth of this experience called 'bi-polar'. It is not an easy path, the dangers are real, the road is long and
it can not be transversed on your own.
With that being said, this experience is that 'calling' the bible talks about. It is the experience that spiritual seekers work to attain through their disciplines. You are being 'called' and only you can answer that 'call'. You can accept societies view and live your life on psychiatric drugs and have the state care for you or you can take self-responsibility and live the life you were born to live.