Shamanic Healing
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011In just these brief vignettes to illustrate basic guidelines, the importance of a multidimensional perspective and the benefits of healing tools effective in each dimension become clear. Without medication in the Physical dimension to normalize Connie’s capacity to function, therapy would be disrupted by a series of emergency hospitalizations. Without […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Thursday, September 8th, 2011At one point in Connie’s healing I perform a brief shamanic protection ceremony in which
I employ a rattle to seal up her aura in order to shield Connie from a black spirit that she describes as coming day and night to strangle her. After that protection ceremony the black spirit stops […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011FOURTH GUIDELINE –
Rely on Your Skills as a Sailor and Your Passenger’s Capacities as a Crew
Member
Be Aware of and Prepared to Capitalize on the Patient’s Particular Strengths
and Your Unique Gifts as a Healer
Connie is a prolific and virtuosic dreamer. She has a history of accurate prophetic dreams and the course of […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Lets look to start with the beginning of that multidimensional healing journey and use it to review the six guidelines. The nautical metaphor of sailing a small boat is invoked to make the guidelines more vivid and memorable. My apologies in advance to any reader who suffers from seasickness!
FIRST GUIDELINE –
Know […]
Dissociation in the Energetic Dimension
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011What if some dissociated voices really do originate outside the self? This is the point at which we leave the conventional dimensions and move into the Energetic realm of unseen presences. In shamanic practice we encounter embedded negative energy forms that float around in the environment and attach themselves to […]
Transcendent Awareness
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011In our culture, the spiritual gifts that come from surviving severe trauma are often ignored or misinterpreted as symptoms of mental illness. Talents such as numinous or prescient dreaming and direct perception of spirit presences have been described by mental health professionals as psychotic delusions and hallucinations. In tribal cultures all […]
Energetic Aspects of Traumatic Damage
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Abuse wreaks havoc with the fragile filmy blue thread that weaves the veils of the Energetic dimension, distorting its subtle patterns and opening rifts in the fabric. This kind of invisible damage renders the traumatized child more vulnerable to negative energy forms and disembodied entities that can attach themselves like […]
Theoretical and practical questions
Monday, October 11th, 2010Theoretical and practical questions to be addressed in
Big Heart Healing A Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse:
(1) How do we describe the nature of the different
threads that weave together to produce the complex
tapestry of human experience?
(2) How do traumatic experiences rend or distort the
pattern of this fabric by fraying, […]