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A lot of people are highly skeptical about descents into madness, and they maintain that it is not possible for such an experience to equate to something beneficial like a shamanic initiation.  However, I sensed that the African writer had had this sort of experience.  I had reasons for thinking so, in that I had myself had a one quarter madness experience and had greatly benefited from it in terms of insight and maturity.  Also, this African writer did not adopt conventional, revengeful motifs of race but had much deeper, more insightful things to share.  It was difficult for me to write more than notes on this topic, since even addressing it frightened me, but I wrote this:  http://musteryou.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/house-of-hunger-2/

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It’s very unfortunate that I came to the conclusions about psychoanalysis that I did, but that is because I was also silenced, like Dora, by someone whom I respected and had anticipated getting some guidance or sagacious advice from. Instead, he treated me like Freud did Dora, and I had to take extreme shamanic measures after that to stop myself going into a tail spin and to regain control over my mind. I treat Freudians with great suspicion now, because I understand the harm that can be done by being excessively trite about gender issues.

Far from curing anxiety, opting for the shamanic path may initially exacerbate anxiety. Indeed it may do so for a long time to come, but the trade off is that quality of life immediately increases once one has gone off the priestly path and opted for the path that is shamanic. By persisting long enough, it is highly probably that one stumbles upon various means to cure one's deeper levels of anxiety -- the shamanic means is by "facing death". One accepts one's limits in a state of sublime resignation. However, it is only possible to accept death if one is abundantly rich in life and is on intimate terms with the flow of life. Otherwise, one continues to fight against that reality and is better off remaining on the priestly path.

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Responsibility to Help | Clarissa's Blog: "It seems to me that if you want to help effectively, you have to help because you want to, not because you are compelled to by some abstracted “moral responsibility”. If people had their humanity,they would need not injunctions."



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