Course: Healing Shamanic Sickness And
Embracing The Call
For those called to the shamanic path by Great Spirit & your spirit guide team.
Date & Price: To be confirmed
Description of Shamanic Sickness by Cristina Pratt
“Shaman’s sickness,’ refers to the specific, physical and/or mental illness that results when spirit chooses a new shamanic candidate and possesses the candidate or takes his/her soul into the spirit world. The sickness does not respond to normal treatment, nor does it progress like a normal illness. It may advance and retreat without reason and defy our understanding of how similar symptoms normally function in the body. This illness is cured only when the one stricken surrenders to the will of spirit, faces his or her fear of death and cures that personal madness or illness. The individual forges working relationships with their helping spirits and gains shamanic power in the process only when they find meaning in the crisis and his or her own cure. As a result of this passage, the individual can work with the fears and madness in others having now crossed that emotional and psychological territory within the self.”
15 Signs The Shamanic Path May Be Calling You:
This information comes from my guidance, my experience and other shamans.
- Experiences of ordeals, breakdowns, crisis
- Feeling destabilised
- Experiences of personal madness or illness {physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or other}
- Having other types of issues in areas of life i.e. sleep, diet, relationships that are not able to be resolved
- Having physical issues that defy the laws of physics
- Having issues that resist any kind of treatment
- Enjoying solitude and finding it hard to fit in with others
- Sensitive, intuitive, compassionate, and empathic {violent movie scenes might linger in your mind, disturbed by the suffering of others, having the ability to experience the feelings of others}
- Having vivid or prophetic dreams
- Experiences of signs from spirit animals
- Feeling a calling to help ease the suffering of others
- Feeling a disconnection from material concerns, i.e. money, status, job
- Experiencing intense and unfamiliar emotions
- Having interest in the unknown, subjects like psychedelics, mysticism, magic, spirituality
- Experiencing Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘Chapel Perilous’
- {“Chapel perilous” is a term referring to a psychological state in which an individual is uncertain whether some course of events was affected by a supernatural force, or was a product of their own imagination. It was used by writer and philosopher Robert Anton Wilson in his 1977 book Cosmic Trigger. According to Wilson, being in this state leads the subject to become either paranoid or an agnostic;[5] in his opinion there is no third way.”}
Illness is cured only when the stricken one:
- Surrenders to the will of Great Spirit
- Fully accepts the call to become a shaman and accepts every step on the path to becoming one
- Experiences ordeals to complete their breakdown
- Cures the personal madness or illness
- Raises their frequency and vibration to where it needs to be
- Completes initiations
- Learns the ways of the shaman
- Completes assignments that are on their sacred contract
- Completes spiritual work for the collective consciousness
- Dissolves and amends any contracts that need to be cleared or changed
- Journeys to all aspects of their being (mind, soul, higher self, future self, consciousness / eternal self, eternal power, heart, gut, chakras, inner child, inner parent, inner adult, inner archetypes etc)
- Develops a deep relationship with their own eternal power, eternal self, higher self, heart, and all aspects of their being
- Develops a strong close relationship with their guides
- Develops a strong close relationship with the spirits of the sacred medicines
- Journeys to The Upper, Middle & Lower Worlds safely
- Journeys to issues
- Performs Power & Soul Retrievals
- Performs space clearing, cleansing, shifting & protection
- Uses a shamanic drum & rattle
- Learns the soul lessons they need to learn
- Performs Ceremonies
What is shaman sickness?
“If a person is called to take on the responsibility of a shaman they usually fall very ill mentally, emotionally or physically. If this is the role you have been gifted by great spirit, I will help heal and guide you on how to cure your shaman sickness.
The spirits torment the shaman-to-be. Known as “shaman sickness”, “shamanic illness”, “shamanic disease”, or “shamanic crisis”, these torments will anguish the person for months, or years.
The torment is about pushing the mind over the edge, losing sense of reality. It’s meant to break you.
The process of shaman sickness and being initiated into becoming a shamanic healer can “help you cultivate the compassion and awareness you’ll need as a healer (and experience…the worse you’ve felt, the easier it is to handle hard things your clients are facing).” (Morgan) Also it shows you this is your calling.
It is portrayed as tantamount to initiation by the spirits; that is, a situation when the spirits are deemed to have selected an individual and inflicted pain and prolonged suffering on them in order to force them to become a shaman. Shamans who are called seem to go through many bizarre psychological and psycho-spiritual crises. These can include vivid dreams and visions, sometimes about death, but also about renewal.
The shaman sickness can also be manifested in a form of prolonged illness and unusual behavioral changes ranging from absent mindedness, withdrawal, psychological distress, and general malaise to increased nervous sensitivity, accompanied by hysterical attacks.
While the shaman sickness is not necessarily always on 100% intensity it doesn’t stop until the shaman accepts the calling. “The shamans’ advice is that the only way the person can be cured of shaman sickness is by being initiated as a shaman.” (Jokic, 2008, p. 28) Or they never complete their initiation due to rejecting the calling and they live with a degree of mental, emotional or physical illness.
Anthropologists have considered shamans to be “wounded healers” (Grof, 2006) because of the series of trials and tribulations a shaman typically experiences throughout her or his life. This calling or initiation is typically not blissful, fun, nor healing. The shamanic calling is usually filled with terrifying and nightmarish experiences.
A future shaman can be initiated by an elder shaman who believes a person is called to take on the responsibility and lifestyle. This could be because of the family lineage or if another shaman believes the person is being asked to take on the role. It’s a type of apprenticeship, where the shaman will have a sacred connection to their guides, and be properly guided and trained by them and the elder shaman.
The shaman heals his or herself from what the spirits have inflicted on them and what they carry anyway and shares the wisdom with their community, and carry on learning how to heal others of emotional, mental, physical, or psychosomatic disorders. They are able to gain deep insight into the nature and diagnosis of disease and other problems.
There is a difference between a shamanic crisis and someone actually suffering from a mental health disorder. From the anthropological or psychological viewpoint, many shamans could be labeled or diagnosed with schizophrenia, borderline psychosis, hysteria, or epilepsy because of the strange or bizarre behavior that they exhibit (Grof, 2006). Grof mentions that the shamanic crisis is different than schizophrenia because the crisis involves some sort of mystical dimension. This does not produce a progressive deterioration of personality or functioning within one’s culture (Grof, 2006). The shaman shows his or her ability to integrate their extraordinary experience back into their lives to help better serve the community at large.”
In my experience shaman sickness is not only cured with acceptance of the role, but by many other factors too. For example completing assignments that the spirits have set for them.
References:
Grof, Stanislav. (2006). The ultimate journey: Consciousness and the mystery of death. Sarasota, FL: MAPS
https://www.settingsunwellness.com/blog/2016/3/18/6f164jnxntdx7gnnwx66uanmtfnlgc
https://www.abigailmorgancoaching.com/blog/sick-of-shaman-sickness
You Will Learn:
- Guidance from Great Spirit on whether you have been called to this path
- How to deal with the shamanic path and shamanic sickness during the time you are working to cure the sickness
- How to cure your shamanic sickness
- And more
Training Overview
Week 1:
- Live 1 hour coaching call
Week 2:
- Live 1 hour coaching call
FAQ’s
Is this program open to anyone?
No. The Healing Shamanic Sickness And Embracing The Call course is exclusively for those who are called to the shamanic path and are put through initiation by Great Spirit & your spirit guide team.
Will I have some kind of certification after the completion of the training?
Yes, after completing the training you can obtain a Certificate of Attendance.
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Any information or healing you receive from me is not a substitute for any medical treatments, diagnosis, therapy or counselling for any medical or psychological condition. For such issues, you should seek the proper licensed doctor, therapist, counsellor or healthcare professional. I recommend that clients continue to see their regular medical doctors and follow their advice and my work is a complement to regular medicine.
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