This clip should not be taken as a gospel on mental health or “inner voices” great care needs to be taken when dealing with those topics.
But in a society that locks up many with mental health problems – we have to ask – is that the best solution?
I dont have time to write a full discussion as yet but will use the description text from the video itself …
“What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital” is an interview with Malidoma Somรฉ about the state of mental health in the West.
This short interview was conducted in Northern California with Zayin Cabot, and offers a more in depth response by Malidoma to the relationship of modernity to madness.
Malidoma turns Western assumptions on their head, making a passionate call for taking an indigenous West African perspective on issues that have been labeled mental illness in the West.
Join Malidoma Somรฉ and Zayin Cabot in the Bay Area this August for the first week long intensive, Answering the Healers Call, where they will work with those marginalized by modern Western assumptions about mental health.
Go to www.westcoastvillage.org to find out more!
