Shamanism and Psychotherapy: Reclaiming Self After Trauma

Shamanism involves practices explored by earliest humans that, through trial and error, and acknowledging and utilizing subtler realms of our being along with characteristics evident in Nature, have evolved and attained lasting presence well into modern times.  Of such shamanic practices, Tantra is the oldest and most developed shamanic practice extant today. 

This article derives from the ideas discussed in Sandra Ingerman’s book Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self. Ingerman discusses the techniques shamans use to retrieve parts of a person which seem to have left them in consequence to a traumatic situation.  These situations can range from anything which some would consider insignificant like the loss of a toy as a child to sexual and physical abuse.

    “For shamans the world over, illness has always been seen as a spiritual predicament.” They say that because of some crisis, the essence or vital part of our life-source separates from our consciousness in order to survive the experience and the full impact of the pain.  We see this clearly happening in cases of abuse.  This does not differ from some of the views therapists take about a particular situation.  John Bradshaw in particular says that “in incest parts of the vital self will split off to lessen the impact because the pain and humiliation are unbearable.  

    Shamans and psychotherapists both deal with the reintegration of these split-off parts.  What makes the shaman different from the therapist is that the shaman does not put the loss in the realm of the unconscious or blocked out memories.  The shaman sees the other parts living or existing in another separate reality.  He is a messenger, a communicator, and retriever between those parts and the main body of consciousness.  When a part of the soul is lost, a vital essence of one’s being is gone.  One may feel depressed, lonely, bored or anxiety-ridden and not know why.  This lost part is what some people tend to look for in relationships, addictions, or even religious organizations.  There is false idea that these things are going to make them feel more alive.  

Researching Subtler Realms

Researching Subtler Realms

Occasionally some few allopathic medical practitioners, somewheres in the world, have a little mind expansion and bequeath an interest in subtler realms of mind beyond academic volleys of speculative vanity-surfing anchored in and trumped by their academic, occupational, industrial and other unwieldy conceits about subtler realms of mind and body in the spectrum of human potential -- as if no one else has ever done these things, performed such talents, or have never studied such capabilities using "scientific methods". Even animals use scientific method, trial-and-error, and pass on such knowledge and results to their comrades and posterity. So much more so do intuitives use scientific methods to confirm whether they are projecting or receiving perceptions and endeavor to isolate each into each's unadulterated realms and what factors influence receptive and projective skills and results.

Intuitives and Subtle Mind Scientists Should Set the Experiments for Allopaths Exploring Subtle Human Potentials.

While allopaths may search for subtle capabilities, all too often their comprehension and their experiments are limited by their deanimated and materialistic values and states of mind in both the designs of such experiments and their comprehension of the results obtained. A more mature approach in proving intuitive capabilities, subtle science possibilities, and more psychic-centered potentialities should begin with interviewing people both with such capabilities and those who know the intuitional sciences, their continuum and the architectures of such capabilities across all disciplines. Such people can also foreshadow the future of civilization as their revelations and direction through their knowledge of these supramundane and spiritual sciences can portend both physical, metaphysical, spiritual and extrasocial potentialities of humanity.

For example, the constituent factors of mind constructing the capabilities of remote viewing, in both past, future and alternative locations will also have the same construction for what will -- or may already have been proven to be -- the capability to physically time-travel, into the past or future, or to relocate to a remote spot in present time at far greater speed than that of light. Just a hint of some of the points along the continuum of such capabilities can save jillions of hours of research and speculation and many jillions more of dollars overspent in a dawdling, and all too often featherbeddingly stumbling through cluelessness.

Would you be available to work with me in defining what allopaths and other inanimate material scientists should be exploring and in developing the experiments in proving the factuality of intuitional science, psychic capabilities and the future of medical and physical sciences? I welcome your insights and anticipate hearing from you in positive ways.

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