Short essays about shamanic healing and shamanism from kauai, Hawaii
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Commanding 2nd Attention
As I observe the unfolding of world events, it appears that a great number of people have become enmeshed in an extremely unhealthy and codependent relationship with sociopathic aspects of social media. Just as an individual recovering from codependency and narcissistic abuse needs time and assistance to heal; so does our society and culture.
In the Shamanic viewpoint, when a person’s behavior defies logical explanation, the Shaman looks for the possibility that a possessing and potentially malevolent spirit has attached itself to the person in question. These spirits can distort an individual’s perception to such a large degree that their actions become unrecognizable from the person which we have previously known…
The Story of Creation is an active event; happening in present time, unfolding before our eyes; and we are the authors.
Every single one of us is writing the story of the Creation of the Earth; here and now and into the future. Just as our past actions (and the actions of our ancestors) have written the story of times that have come before; so too do the actions that we take today write the story of our present and of our future.
If you have ever been intimately involved with someone who suffers from symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD); you know how painful and challenging the process of recovery can be. If you have ever been a victim of gas-lighting and other forms of narcissistic abuse; you understand the confusion that comes from having your boundaries repeatedly violated. After the trauma of experiencing the basic norms of civil discourse and respect for your inherent psychic and emotional sovereignty being thrown to the wayside; it is easy to start to believe that your needs don’t matter; and by extension that you don’t matter.
Let us look at the problem of narcissistic abuse from a shamanic perspective.
