for those who dont know, “schizophrenia” has been around since the beggining.
and primitive people LEARNED how to deal with it, by trial and error.
people with odd minds became(by learning with older ones) the shamans, and they had much knowledge and power, understanding and helped people on the tribe with mind related issues.
so, yeah, i want to become a shaman. i wanna learn the way to use our abilities the way our grandgrandgrand…fathers used.
“the schizophrenic and the shaman are in the same ocean, but the sz drowns, and the shaman swims”
i want from you:
do you want a way to deal with your mind and maybe even go med free
what do you think of shamanism
some advice for me
anything related
just imagine how COOL to learn how your mind works, how to use it, how to avoid negative energies, how to amplify the positive ones…
and i study ENGINEERING. i am -VERY- SCIENTIFIC minded, SKEPTIK.
but that doenst mean i’m close minded. their practices might not make sense at first, but they’ve worked for thousands of years, so why not give it a shot?
I deal with my mind by not giving to much thought to finding the reason or purpose behind the odd things that
come to me, and just observe them.
I’m not on meds now, but was for (?)15 years?
I read that when I first got diagnosed, saw a little documentary about it. Apparently a guy with sz went to a tribe and helped the shaman there, studying to be a shaman and he got a lot of insight into his illness. I think the point they make there is for you to accomplish something in service of others. Like go into medical school would be the equivalent in western society.
We had a longtime member here who was very stable on meds. Then he got laid off, lost his health benefits, and access to the expensive meds he used to take. He started dabbling in shamanism as a result, which I understand. Better to try something, right? Except that it wasn’t. He’s now full-on raving whackdoodle and a shadow of his former, high-functioning self.
Every single time I’ve seen someone stable on meds go deep into shamanism, they have wound up damaged and non-functional. Every. Single. Time. It’s your business if you want to dabble in this stuff, but I’m telling you flat out that you are putting your health, relationships, and financial stability at risk.
I am Catholic and some Catholic philosophers and saints have proposed that there is spiritual knowledge in other traditions as well. I firmly believe that, so I wouldn’t be so quick to demonize other people’s spiritual practices. For instance, my name is Daimon; some people would demonize me right off the bat for a name like this, but I am going by the etymology, which in Greek would mean a spirit guide or demigod. I don’t believe interaction with the spirit world was cut off until Jesus and some Jewish prophets before him. I believe people’s spiritual experiences outside the Abraham faith inspired other religions and mythologies as well, not all of which were evil or demonic in origin or nature.