![]() ![]() The shaman is the original mind 'alterer' of the patient or community. It remains at some deep level, within our DNA, and therefore within our cellular memory. After all, we are all indigenous to someplace and shamanism was once our only repository for mental well-being. We should move beyond the typical perception that 'shamanic healing', is reserved for indigenous people and simply superstitious sorcery. ![]() In this sense, shamanism is a mental business, not a supernatural practice or spiritual schism. Put another way, the shaman is a master of ecstasy, who alters the mental-scape of the patient, to bring about healing or to conjure ceremony, to indelibly mark the psyche. The shaman is the proto-healer and is thus set apart from other doctors and modern healers because s/he must 'journeys to a metaphysical dimension' to acquire the 'necessary medicine'. Inspired by Joan Halifax - Shamanic Voices Who brings medicine, remedy of the spirit, I am he who fixes, he who cures the sad and the sick, He who dwells where there is fright and terror. I am he who looks for the spirit of the day, ![]()
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