INTRUSIONS, PARASITES, AND OTHER BEASTIES:

SPIRIT INTRUSIONS IN SHAMANIC HEALING

SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO TAKE OUT THE BINS, OR WORSE.

This is post is part of a series in which I draw upon my 34 years experience of having a shamanic practice in Oxford: my work has been various, including seeing people from parts of the world, often from countries and cultres where shamanism is not just healing and helpful, but which partakes of sorcery as well. Details of cases below have been changed. In this post, I look at what intrusions are, and that part of the work that requires us to clean things out and away.

Some shamanic students trained elsewhere, often ask me whether I will teach a whole course on this topic. My answer is always the same: I teach some aspect of this work on every shamanic course I do, whether it be about healing soul-loss, dealing with the dead, understanding ancestral fragmentation, or whatever. And I will tell you straight, not one of those who ask me this question would ever make it to the end of a whole course on instrusion, because they would need to be praying, fasting, and being very clean themselves in order to survive hearing about it for 3 days straight!

Angelica, one of my plant allies

While this article is not about how to do this work, I hope it may serve as a window onto the reality and necessity governing a shamanic practitioner’s work: it is not all glam dram, it is not all sparkly and nice. Sometimes we have to take out the bins, or worse. But always with help. of course!

If you are in a vulnerable place right now, please don’t carry on reading. Read another of my posts and enjoy. There are some distressing details.

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