"Many Native American cultures understand illness not as the result of some biochemical, physiological, or psychological malady, but as a sign of disorder in society or the world, which is then reflected in the illness of an individual. Diagnosis thus consists of discerning the status of the community or the world.
Healing requires repairing or restructuring these environmental concerns."
This is still a fundamental truth, but now the dial is cranked up to eleven.
The illness we see in each other and experience within ourselves is not only a personal issue but cannot be separated from the disorder of the society, economically, ethically and most important, spiritually. The individual is the pointer, the barometer, of the well being of the society.
When we consider the new statistics that at least 70% of American citizens are on medication and disease is the BIGGEST profit business in the world we can clearly see that the problem is as bad as it can be.
In Native American cultures, at this crisis point, the wise elders, presumably women and men, would step forward to address the problems of the community and the shaman would tackle the individual.
We have doctors and politicians, both enslaved by corporations.
And thus it is down to us all to heal ourselves and each other, to be both shaman and elder, to grow ourselves spiritually and to, at some point, brush aside the greedy and selfish and cruel and step forward into a golden age of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being, where the base line for humanity is not disease for profit but health for happiness.
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