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loss” (Dine spirituality), or ”soul-loss” (Siberian shamanism). A continued experience of this state causes feelings of powerlessness, anxiety and stress, which, alone, accounts for 75% to 90% of all doctor visits.
The understanding that depression is a spiritual disease is not limited to remote forms of traditional medicine. Rooted in the Greek word “psych”, which
means “soul” or “spirit”, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatry were meant to be spiritual approaches to healing. Yet, paradoxically, they have come to deny these spiritual aspects, reducing the living, breathing person to a faceless statistic, and promoting the idea that the SPIRIT OF LIFE can be replaced by a few chemical compounds.
6. How Does Esotherapy Heal Trauma And Other Emotional Imprinting Events?
Out yonder, past our ideas of possible and impossible, past our illnesses and understandings of healing, past wars and raging political, race and gender battles, there is a field carefully guarded by the spirit of division of dualistic thinking.
This spirit does not only teach misinformation, it socializes which questions are permissible and which are not. Questions such as, “is there a common root of all illnesses?” are forbidden so that we cannot even conceive of asking them, and if we would, the “common sense” answer would be “No, there is not!”. However, what if common sense, i.e., dualistic consciousness, ITSELF, is the problem?
Esotherapy marches to a different drummer. It considers all illnesses to be mere manifestations of dualistic consciousness, which sages like Lao Tzu and Christ described as the root sickness. Thus, the integration of the divided, dualistic consciousness heals all the illnesses that arise from it.
Speaking about certain states that may arise from consciousness integration, which Abraham Maslow, father of humanistic psychology, described as ”peak experiences” or “transcendent moments of pure elation, wonder, awe, or ecstasy”, Maslow wrote:
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