Comments on: Communication With the Self http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/ In the silence of the wild, we find the home we lost in the city. --John Muir Thu, 17 May 2012 23:07:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: therioshamanism http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-96 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:53:03 +0000 http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-96 *nods* I’ve been thinking about the concept of illness along those lines, too. I actually was talking to someone on the train into work this morning about the division between physical health and all the other layers of one’s health–mental, emotional, spiritual–and how those who seek to bring the role of “shaman” into this culture seek to integrate those again. That’s part of why I had to stop myself from comparing myself to someone in Siberia–the needs of this culture are quite different in many ways, and I can’t force myself into the mold of a culture I’m not a part of.

]]> By: Soli http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-95 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:15:24 +0000 http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-95 I think Ash is making some good points there as to how healing is changing, especially considering our “modern” culture. And I also deal with similar issues of communication, beating myself up, putting myself down. It’s gotten better, but far from perfect.

]]> By: Ash http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-94 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:41:20 +0000 http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-94 Er- that should read:

“I wonder what “illness” may mean to spirits in the 21st century and in a industrialized country.”

-Ash, king of typos and rushed comments.

]]> By: Ash http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-93 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:25:28 +0000 http://therioshamanism.com/2007/11/30/communication-with-the-self/#comment-93 For example, some shamans became shamans by curing themselves of serious illness.

Just to go long with the same kinds of things you were talking about, I wonder if the what “illness” may mean to spirits in the 21st century industrialized country.

I think we spend a lot of time being alienated from one another, lost in consumerism and often in a state of spiritual disconnection. Perhaps the healing that a 21st century shaman is here to do is to heal those kinds of wounds. In any case, I think an urban shaman will look different that a traditional shaman.

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