VISIONS OF CHAOS THE SHAMAN/THERAPIST: IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, AND VISION ABSTRACT: The shaman/therapist is a hybrid of mystic and scientist. This model provides a nonlinear approach to the chaotic mysteries of the psyche. Included in this model of binocular visionary experience is the distinction between fantasy and imagination, chaos and dreamhealing, creativity and the healing process, inner vs. outer healing, perception and healing, shaman/therapist as dream guide, chakras in dream therapy, and the Medicine Wheel as a model of healing. Also included are instructions for dealing with transference for lay people or peer counselors. Shamanism is the medicine of the imagination. Graywolfs search for the meaning of life led him from conventional life as an engineer, into psychology, then into the mystical phenomena of sacred psychology and chaos theory. As he trained as a psychotherapist, he found the limitation in psychology which led him to shamanism. Shamanism included the experience of many unusual states of consciousness. But there were inherent limitations within the pure shamanic model also, most notably an accent on superstition and fantasy. The pitfalls of superstition are pretty obvious and come from our belief system, but many of us dont make a distinction between fantasy and imagination. We say, Oh, its just your imagination, reducing it to a trivial position. IMAGINATION IS OUR MOST POWERFUL FORCE FOR CHANGE. Unlike ego-serving daydreams, or fantasies of wish fulfillment which we make up, imagination is something that happens to us; it is an autonomous force or energy, welling up from the depths as the water of life. By Iona Miller: dreamhealing.iwarp/whats_new_7.html
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:04:39 +0000
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