We Are Drugging and Numbing and Condemning Our Shamans

September 9, 2019

We like to pretend we’ve come so far since the days of lobotomies. Remember that only sixty years ago, we were driving ice picks through people’s eye sockets to damage their brains in the hopes that it would relieve their psychological suffering.

One prominent example: President John F. Kennedy’s sister, Rosemary, was lobotomized at age 23 and left with the mental capacity of an infant who could neither walk nor speak intelligibly.

All in the name of “science.” 👨🏻‍🔬

Remember that modern psychopharmacological methods are derived from the same barbaric thinking.

Conspiracy alert: these seemingly “high-minded” institutions aren’t in the business of healing. They’re in the business of damaging people’s brains.

You see, we can’t have shamans wandering among us. Because shamans provide antidotes to the world-devouring machine.

Better to nip ‘em in the bud. At the first sign of neurological deviance.

Sound like a bunch of nonsense? Study the work of Robert Whitaker and you’ll be astounded to learn the true story of psychiatry. 😱

When you dig into it, the research shows that the very medications used to correct these so-called “neurochemical imbalances” (none of which have been proven to exist) actually create the imbalances such medications were purported to correct.

They alter key structures in the brain and make recovery more difficult. Worse, they suppress spiritual development.

Since when did we give such authority to the mind police?

Since when did we become uncomfortable asking the great existential questions?

Since when did we begin denying the inner realms?

In the absence of the sacred, we deaden our most sensitive. And in so doing, we deaden ourselves.

photo by Anh Nguyen