Re: shamanism, mysticism and mental illness...

I’ll have a read of that link….probably should before I post. Oh well.
I’ve always considered myself a spiritual person since i was a young boy - and probably because my my either seriously or jokingly believed she was a reincarnated Hawaiian princess (who’s to really know) that I had interests in Hawaiian shamans…

I remember working so hard as a 9 year old on a hawaiian ‘witch doctor’ costume…my journey of design led me from the USA where I’m from to New Zealand where I’ve learned a bit about maori spirituality and some similarities with Huna shamanism..

.As a Quaker who believes toally in the Inner Light - connection - direct link to Christ/God/Divine energy - and had some minor ‘quaking’ in the past physically - it wasn’t until an emotional release in a major group therapy situation where I began to experience full - on Kundalini experiences.

Being more lucid than ever before in my life I “KNEW” that I was not psychotic - despite the medical staff believing this to be so. It led to a major research into shamanic and kundalini experiences - which is MORE accurate as to my epxeriences than the psychotic label….the doctors tried me on anti-psycotics and while some of the blissful, kriya movesments didn’t stop - what the medication did was make me depressed and tired and lethargic - hindering the complete clarity of sight, reading, engageing in the world.