3rd Eye Watch January 2015 (1 yr Anniversary Edition) | Page 24

Schizophrenia and
Foreign Energy
With schizophrenia, there is a special,
"receptivity to a flow of images and
information, which cannot be
controlled," stated Dr. Somé.
"When this kind of rush occurs at a time
that is not personally chosen, and
particularly when it comes with images
that are scary and contradictory, the
person goes into a frenzy."
What is required in this situation is first
to separate the person's energy from the
extraneous foreign energies, by using
shamanic practice (what is known as a
"sweep") to clear the latter out of the
individual's aura.
With the clearing of their energy field,
the person no longer picks up a flood of
information and so no longer has a
reason to be scared and disturbed,
explains Dr. Somé. Then it is possible to
help the person align with the energy of
the spirit being attempting to come
through from the other world and give
birth to the healer.
The blockage of that emergence is what
creates problems.
"The energy of the healer is a highvoltage energy," he observes.
"When it is blocked, it just burns up the
person. It's like a short-circuit. Fuses are
blowing. This is why it can be really
scary, and I understand why this culture
prefers to confine these people. Here
they are yelling and screaming, and
they're put into a straitjacket. That's a
sad image."
Again, the shamanic approach is to
work on aligning the energies so there is
no blockage, "fuses" aren't blowing, and

the person can become the healer they
are meant to be.
It needs to be noted at this point,
however, that not all of the spirit beings
that enter a person's energetic field are
there for the purposes of promoting
healing.
There are negative energies as well,
which are undesirable presences in the
aura. In those cases, the shamanic
approach is to remove them from the
aura, rather than work to align the
discordant energies

Alex: Crazy in the
USA, Healer in Africa
To test his belief that the shamanic view
of mental illness holds true in the
Western world as well as in indigenous
cultures, Dr. Somé took a mental patient
back to Africa with him, to his village.
"I was prompted by my own curiosity to
find out whether there's truth in the
universality that mental illness could be
connected with an alignment with a
being from another world," says Dr.
Somé.
Alex was an 18-year-old American who
had suffered a psychotic break when he
was 14.
He had hallucinations, was suicidal, and
went through cycles of dangerously
severe depression. He was in a mental
hospital and had been given a lot of
drugs, but nothing was helping.
"The parents had done everything unsuccessfully," says Dr. Somé. "They
didn't know what else to do."
With their permission, Dr. Somé took
their son to Africa.
"After eight months there, Alex had
become quite normal, Dr. Somé reports.

He was even able to participate with
healers in the business of healing; sitting
with them all day long and helping
them, assisting them in what they were
doing with their clients... He spent about
four years in my village."
Alex stayed by choice, not because he
needed more healing.
He felt, "much safer in the village than
in America."
To bring his energy and that of the being
from the spiritual realm into alignment,
Alex went through a shamanic ritual
designed for that purpose, although it
was slightly different from the one used
with the Dagara people.
"He wasn't born in the village, so
something else applied. But the result
was similar, even though the ritual was
not literally the same," explains Dr.
Somé.
The fact that aligning the energy worked
to heal Alex demonstrated to Dr. Somé
that the connection between other
beings and mental illness is indeed
universal.
After the ritual, Alex began to share the
messages that the spirit being had for
this world.
Unfortunately, the people he was talking
to didn't speak English (Dr. Somé was
away at that point). The whole
experience led, however, to Alex's going
to college to study psychology.

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