The Wisdom of Mental Illness: Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World Hughes Jez
The Wisdom of Mental Illness: Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World Hughes Jez This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental…
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The Wisdom of Mental Illness: Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World Hughes Jez
This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a potentially transformational experience. It explores the ancient concept of the shamanic sickness, whereby the prospective shaman underwent many years of mental distress as part of their initiation, and looks at what this can teach us about mental health. What we label as pathological could actually be an initiation into a better relationship with ourselves and the world.Written for those who are experiencing or who have experienced mental illness, or whose loved ones are going through such episodes, or who are mental wellbeing practitioners, this is a guide to the potentially transformational experience of that which we label mental illness.
It argues that, in some cases, what we seek to medicate could actually be a calling to a