Christine Chau - Week 3
In this week's theme of spiritual healer, it has opened my eyes to a different method of people to heal mentally and physically. Growing up, I knew that there were some people who were able to "see" things, or able to sort of "predict" the future in very unique ways. As these things just phased me as a child, as I start to learn the actual practices within these different cultures in Southeast Asian communities. In Pa Lor's story about her transition to becoming a shaman had taught me what it took to become a medium between the living and spiritual worlds. The most interesting part during her work as a shaman that resonated the most to me was that the spiritual realm itself have a "set of laws" just like we do. What's also interesting is that most of the time these laws she will learn eventually come from her own experiences in the spiritual world. The curiosity that I hold while reading her story was that how are the images like? She has stated that they seem like scenes from a movie. It's like being able to have actual "dream" like states of mind that you are able to remember and help lives of people. If we look at our western cultures, all the things that have to do with spirits is mostly Americans trying to "hunt" these ghosts, and connect them with them in meaningless ways such as promoting it for financial gain. While there are actual practices where people use their mental and physical states to connect into another world to help other people. Many people in the western culture would also not believe in these things, due to colonization to think these things are foolish and everything is "god's will". Although the thoughts of being more spiritual has lately been making a new scene as people are turning away from religion and looking at thing's spiritually. It's great to see it's making a new headway in today's world but being more informative for people who want to learn more about the spiritual world. What I wonder is that in these often spiritual worlds, can anybody who would like to get in touch able to do so? Or is it only that specific people in this world is "gifted" in ways where they can communicate with other worlds.
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