Shamanic secret practices. The growing interest in shamanism is much more than just fashion. In this book, the psychologist and ethnologist Holger Kalveit, using many examples taken from different regions of the globe, shows for the first time what the essence of ancient healing is and what we can learn from it. First of all, the shaman exposes himself to an intense inner purification and change of consciousness. Only then does he acquire the ability to heal others, and not only the symptoms of ailments, but their whole life, completely and completely. And this book presents the reader with a broad, multifaceted picture of how such healing occurs, or rather even sanctification, and what it consists of.
Holy medicine
Our culture has forgotten three things: health, healing, sacred. These concepts have the same linguistic root and the same goals: health, integrity, completeness, deliverance, salvation, happiness, magic.
Healing has little to do with the surgeon's scalpel and antiseptic. True health is acquired only by the internally purified one - by this it is meant: freed from the layers of evil, who has gone through suffering. This has nothing to do with the sweet epic of our softened culture; we are talking about physical and mental transformations at all levels. Healer, saint, healed - all have experienced spiritual changes. All of them, in fact, were bent, broken, re-evaluated until they were given an impeccable new shape. In this way, they enter a kind of integral world, which is free from disease and purified through suffering. And this is the first paradox of shamanism.
To be healthy means to perceive all levels of being holistically. To heal means to heal first the culture itself, then the person, and only then the disease.
To be a saint means to feel in oneself many, even all, spheres of being.
This triad - wisdom, happiness, magic - has been lost by us.
The healer first heals not the patient, but himself, later he sanctifies everything around. This is the “healer's vision,” a new type of doctor's vision.
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This book is about this and tells - about how traditional healers cognize the existence, how they give themselves to the power of various vital energies and use them; they do not want, as we do, to artificially search for something new; they want to be in harmony with the laws of nature, with the cosmic logos.
Shamans were the earliest creators of knowledge and will continue to be so. Therefore, this book is not a description of the archaic of the past, it is a foresight of new methods of healing, which will again take their rightful place.
So what can we learn from shamans as doctors, psychologists, therapists, as humans? Traditional medicine and traditional healing go their own way, in search of integrity and health beyond the ego. Medicine of shamans knows neither pills nor injections, it does not eliminate symptoms (it would be against nature) - it gives life a new breath, heals our connections with the world: after all, what is a disease if not clogging spiritual nop, a violation of a full-fledged worldview, and only then disease as such?
Our bureaucratic materialistic medicine, which includes an active therapist and a passive patient in the “man-machine” model, which sees the patient as nothing more than an object and places him in the long corridors of hospitals, has ceased to function. This type of treatment belongs to the mechanistic era. Today we dare to approach "organic" medicine, to the healing of the spirit through personal transformation, through a change in consciousness at all levels.
Let's look for classic samples; they exist, these healing masters are shamans, traditional healers, archaic healers, healers. Their secrets are revealed to our awakening consciousness, but so far we can only note timid attempts in this direction.
In my first book about shamans, Dreaming Time and Inner Space, I described the forms of initiation and the processes of the psyche that transform a person into a shaman. This book presents an alternative to the widespread tendency of profanation of the forces of human consciousness, not in the spirit of giving advice to those who are overly thirsty for healing - open there, look at that - instead, it describes the complexity and mystery of healing, which can itself act curatively by debunking illusions, by eliminating Eurocentric views and vain egocentric hopes. Before we begin to engage in healing, it is necessary to identify false concepts, show their entanglement devoid of healing power, so that the healing process itself becomes possible. Healing always implies the willingness and courage to step over the boundaries, to abandon the presentation,that the satisfaction of one's “I”, its stabilization are the final stations on the path of life. Accordingly, healing is a change in the planes of consciousness, a change in the spiritual space-time structure. A traditional healer lives in a universe made up of many worlds … Our world is one world, the kingdom of the dead is the next, there are worlds of other beings in other space-time dimensions. For a traditional healer, healing is a journey through space and time outward, into the existential fabric of another dimension. What does these healing journeys look like?composed of many worlds … Our world is one world, the kingdom of the dead is the next, there are worlds of other beings in other space-time dimensions. For a traditional healer, healing is a journey through space and time outward, into the existential fabric of another dimension. What does these healing journeys look like?composed of many worlds … Our world is one world, the kingdom of the dead is the next, there are worlds of other beings in other space-time dimensions. For a traditional healer, healing is a journey through space and time outward, into the existential fabric of another dimension. What does these healing journeys look like?
They are carried out by consciousness, and today we can assert that consciousness is independent of the brain, an independent and subordinating unity to itself. It is the creative substance, the bearer of everything physical in general. Consciousness is the source and future of all living things, the embodiment of hyperspace, timeless and boundless essence.
Author: Holger Kalweit
