I was put on antidepressants at age 12. Here’s what I learned about pharmaceutical warfare.

How the medical industry is designed to silence the shamans.

Have you heard the story of the African healer Malidoma Patrice Somé? Upon visiting a U.S. mental hospital for the first time, he said:

“So this is how the healers who are attempting to be born are treated in this culture. What a loss! What a loss that a person who is finally being aligned with a power from the other world is just being wasted.”

All indigenous cultures had a term for a spiritual healer, and recognized the crucial role this person played in the community. In some cultures, they were called shamans, seers, oracles, or simply Wise Women/Men.

These individuals experienced a clearer connection to the spirit world and heightened intuitive perceptions, which typically manifested in their childhood.

They were the children who spoke with the angels. They had premonitions that came true. They saw visions.

They were the ones for whom the veil was thinner.

Often called “old souls,” they may have felt lonely and estranged among their peers, and so retreated into their own private, mystical world.

That describes my childhood.

Before we proceed, let me clarity that spirit communication and heightened psychic perceptions are a neutral skillset; neither inherently good nor bad, “sacred” nor “wicked.” Some people are born musically talented, some people are born intellectually talented, some people are born psychically talented. The individual may choose to use any talent for loving or evil purposes.

If, in ancient societies, the individual chose to use their psychic skills for benevolent purposes, they could facilitate healing on the spiritual level of reality.

They treated the deepest root cause of physical or emotional problems: the state of one’s soul.

THE HEALER’S INITIATION

I’ve heard that in order to step into their role, the healer/shaman had to be spiritually initiated through a severe illness. The illness bought them to the brink of death, where they gained deeper understanding of the Divine Realms. If the shaman survived, they had “graduated” into their societal role.

(I experienced this dynamic at age 18, when I was bedridden with an “incurable” autoimmune disease.)

Now, however, a shaman must not only survive this spiritual initiation, but also the modern medical system. The shaman must navigate pharmaceutical warfare designed to sabotage their spiritual gifts, so they can’t help the masses awaken.

Fortunately, I was one who survived.