Shamanic culture holds positivistic views of psychosis we pathologize and try to drug away in the West. Ken Wilber describes it as a leaking of one level of being into the physical or mental aspects, causing confusion and distress. Or in Jungian terms, think of material from the collective consciousness becoming confused with your individual consciousness. When energies from the spiritual world emerge in a Western psyche, that individual is completely unequipped to integrate them or even recognize what is happening. The result can be terrifying. Without the proper context for and assistance in dealing with the breakthrough from another level of reality, for all practical purposes, the person is insane.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:19:53 +0000
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