Taken from my family at the tender age of two and raised in foster families by 16 different parents, I feel I was trained to be schizo. I had my first episode by the time I was 18 and just about ready to graduate high school. My hallucination or vision as my native ancestors would have called it lead me to read the inspirational works of Carl G. Jung and everything else I could find on Indian spirituality. Most of my shamanic native ancestors were wiped out by Bible believing white folk who destroyed the knowledge that could have saved me from years of suffering.
By the time I was 26 I suffered my first full "possession," if that can be the term for my first mental breakdown. I am 43 now and find myself once again in full control of my capacities, thanks largely to meds. I have not had one good therapist in all my years of trying to find one, in fact I have been threatened by many of them with re-incarceration and institutionalization. Only reading Jung and his collected works gave me the power of knowledge to learn to heal myself.
I have reunited with my cultural heritage and found equal wisdom from the few elders who still have knowledge of the ancient ways. It is this society in America that is crazy and insane, just look at the 9 trillion dollar debt George W. has gotten us into. To be crazy in an insane society is to be the only one who is actually sane!!!
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Thank you Sonny for sharing your journey. Jung has helped me understand a lot about myself, as well as how the world works. I am now a fully functioning adult without any visions, even though I think they helped me a lot to get through my difficulties. I use Jungian philosophy and methods in my work with people. thank you again! Mitakuye Oyasin.
--Penumbra Blue
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