A Shamanic View of Mental Wellness—Tacey: Part Two
Gods and Diseases is a book which offers a an important way to look at mental illness and the possible new paths toward health and wellbeing.
Why Shamanism Now - A Practical Path to Authenticity · Christina L. Pratt
June 8, 20211h 0m
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Show Notes
Aboriginal elders warned the religious missionaries they encountered that if the trials of initiation were stopped then an even greater suffering would be unleashed on the uninitiated. We see this greater suffering unfolding today in the epidemics of depression, mental illness, addiction, sexual abuse, and suicide plaguing the contemporary “first world” and those who follow in our developmental and religious footsteps. In Gods and Diseases David Tacey explains what our ego-based society cannot understand, that it is “the task of culture to tell the person who he or she really is.” And that it is through the trials of initiation that the person comes to believe that deeper truth and use it as the foundation for sustainable mental wellness. Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, as she continues to explore the power in Tacey’s work from his book, Gods and Diseases, which offers a an important way to look at mental illness and the possible new paths toward health and wellbeing that this point of view opens up.
Topics
David Taceymental illnesscontemporary shamanismshamanic healingshamanic journeyingancestral wisdomsoul's purpose