The following has been shared with me through Facebook. I know that it's a little long but I felt amazing and changed after reading this. Additionally, I had a recent dream about studying the Dagara Tradition and it's very funny/weird that someone shared this with me. Hugh T Alchemy _______________________________ What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born. What those in the West view as mental illness, the Dagara people regard as “good news from the other world.” The person going through the crisis has been chosen as a medium for a message to the community that needs to be communicated from the spirit realm. “Mental disorder, behavioral disorder of all kinds, signal the fact that two obviously incompatible energies have merged into th