shamanic experience – the paradise paradox

Talking to horses, seeing aliens and demons: The Andrarchy Show Episode 4

The Story: Andrarchy continues an interview with Kurt about mental illness

What would you do if one day you woke up and you realised you could do something which previously you thought was impossible, such as using telepathy, psychokinesis, changing reality or bending time with your thoughts? Would you be able to handle it? Would you think you were going crazy? Would you throw yourself into a world of confusion, unsure of what was real and what wasn’t?

This is the fourth episode of The Andrarchy Show, in which Andrew “Andrarchy” Levine interviews Kurt about a strange mental experience, talking to animals, talking to aliens on peyote, and being afraid of demonic attacks.

The Eps:

Mental Illness & Shamanic Experiences – Episode 1 of The Andrarchy Show

A Psychotic Break or Shamanic Awakening – Episode 2 of The Andrarchy Show

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Mental Illness & Shamanic Experiences: The Andrarchy Show Episode 1

The Story – How to deal with a psychotic break

Psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis as schools of thought are less than 150 years old, and we shouldn’t be surprised if such young sciences have gaps of knowledge, questions that are still left open, or even questions that are outright ignored. It’s possible, even likely, that the modern psychiatric model of mental illness is incomplete, and could learn things from other schools of thought.

Many people have the conception that being diagnosed with a mental illness means that you have a chemical imbalance. However, such “illnesses” are normally diagnosed by looking at behaviour, rather than blood tests or other chemical tests to determine amounts of chemicals in one’s brain. So, at least in the majority of cases, the “chemical imbalance” idea is just an assumption.

In contrast, there are shamanistic traditions which stretch back hundreds or even thousands of years. Shamans have been helping people through the strange times in their lives even before recorded history. Is it possible that psychiatry and psychology still have a lot to learn from shamanistic methods?

This is a clip from an interview that Andrarchy (Andrew Levine) did with Kurt, and more clips will be coming over the next couple of weeks.

The Episode

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The links

“Mental Illness” – how and what to learn from your mind breaking

Andrarchy’s post on Steemit introducing his show

What a shaman sees in a mental hospital

A traditional approach to mental illness – Phil Borges TED talk

Healing with communication, conversation and love by Sterlin Luxan

What is a shaman by Terence McKenna