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they are dead; stop ‘othering’ other people,
or desiring their territory or environmental
resources; stop creating weapons of war
and destruction. It is not enough to treat
mental distress on its own and still sell
weapons for mass killing of people. We
need to rethink our human morality, and
adopt multiple responses. We need to stop
violence, acknowledge the damage war
does to humans and discarnate beings, and
offer prayers to honour everyone alive and
in spirit, so they become ancestors. Let us
work together.

Human crisis experiences and mental distress
are caused both by trauma in our present
Changes are starting to happen incarnation, and by trauma reaching us from
dimensions beyond. But where do we go
In 1992, the International Spiritist Council was from here? Many psychiatrists have shifted
set up to support awareness of expanded their thinking about mental health, but now
consciousness in different countries: the we, the population, must go beyond our
International Spiritist Medical Association is mundane reactions to distress. As well as
supported by Brazilian psychiatrists (20), solutions with healthcare, medical schools,
and the British Spiritist Medical Association is psychiatry, educational deaneries, hospitals
chaired by a psychiatrist. The British Medical and healthcare clinics, we must go beyond
Journal reprinted an article titled, ‘Drop the to explore spiritual aspects of consciousness.
language of disorder’ (21), and the Council for We must address ‘Othering’ and war
Evidence Based Medicine earlier published a with its human and spiritual collateral at
report on, ‘Unrecognised Facts about Modern a political government level, and national
Psychiatric Practice’. The practice of group and international levels. It is essential we
discussion with consent has recently taken off collaborate to explore multiple solutions.
throughout Western countries (22), although
for millennia, it was a normal practice for References
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Mexico elders had sacred spaces (kiva) where Nothing new under the sun: post-traumatic
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human behaviours: to stop creating war; stop
creating spirits of beings who don’t know 2. Clark L. Ancient Assyrian Soldiers Were Haunted

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