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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 3, 15th October 2022

exacerbating any mental health problems ‘Othering’ and making war.
they may have had. There are people who
may fear virus-like illness. The problem in the West

Not everyone in the West acknowledges the
existence of a spiritual dimension, nor that
some living human beings slip into them, or
access them unintentionally, get distressed,
and then maybe get diagnosed with mental
disorder. We don’t often acknowledge gifted
specialists like clairvoyants, shamans, or
psychics who slip into and out of other
dimensions at will. Nor do we acknowledge
that some people may deliberately create
thought-forms to manipulate vulnerable
people, for political ends. Writer, Mark
Stavish describes thought-forms as egregores,
and suggests some are hungry ghosts which
feed on human fear (15).

Multiple narratives: spiritism and mental
distress

Many people in the west tend to ignore
Occult triggers of distress spiritism. However, our personal beliefs
are important: they inform the way
It is possible some people who have mental we interpret experience, our theories of
distress today, are responding to: trauma illness causation and influence our health
from their current life; trauma from a previous seeking strategies for mental wellbeing, our
incarnation; or tuning into a remote scenario, access to health care and our acceptance of
experiencing extreme empathy. Living people diagnosis and treatment. For decades in the
may spontaneously access the trauma of UK, Australia and USA, the dominant model
earthbound entities, exacerbating any mental for extreme mental distress was assumed to be
health problems. In addition, practitioners biomedical, and we mistakenly assumed our
skilled in remote viewing, may project imagery diagnoses and treatments were transferable
onto vulnerable individuals’ minds, influencing throughout the world. But we were wrong
them to cause harm to ‘others’, against their (16, 17, 18). Practitioners are more aware
customary free-will (14). While humanity today their bio-medical training doesn’t fit
fights over territory, beliefs, resources, and the current zeitgeist, and many are starting
upholds supremacism, it feels like humans to question the original diagnoses of their
are damned, unless we learn how to stop professions (19).

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