While interviewing Adam, he suggested that I meet a good friend of his, Ron. When I met Ron, I was immediately impressed by how bright and articulate he was.
Meet Ron: Interrogator in the Iraq War
Posts Tagged: Crazywise
Adam Finds Community: The Need for Understanding vs. Judgment
At work Adam is feeling judged by some of his co-workers as ‘crazy’. He tells me how hard it is to find people he can speak to about the ‘interactions’ he is having with his ‘guides’.
Adam’s ‘Interactions’: Struggling to Understand
In Adam’s next interview, he takes us through the time after his Vipassana and how his experiences in alternate states of consciousness continue to grow stronger. Though he has managed to stay off pharmaceutical medications through meditation, he also shares with us how increased ‘interactions’ are making it difficult to hold down his job at… Read more »
Adam’s Vipassana: The Holistic Approach Instead of Hospitals
During the first interview with Adam he shared the struggles he faced with 4 years of doctors, medications and the side effects that resulted. He also told us about his amazing feat of cutting off the medications when he decided to attend a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat—a retreat that gave him a technique that… Read more »
Meet Adam: A Psychotic Break or Spiritual Emergency
About nine months ago, out of my curiosity and interest in meditation I began interviewing individuals who had been meditating. It just so happens that 2 of the 3 people I interviewed had had ‘psychotic episodes’ similar to the experiences the shamans described to me. Adam is one of those individuals.
Crazywise: Project Introduction
In a sense, this new project began long before today. It started while I was interviewing the shaman and living with pre-industrial cultures. These were the experiences and insights that stuck with me, and have now become the catalyst for my current exploration: one that I hope provides a deeper understanding of our inner worlds.
Beginning My Discovery of Inner Worlds
About two years ago I decided to set aside twenty minutes a day to sit and meditate. I made this commitment simply on the basis of articles I had read that indicated a regular meditation practice is good for health and creativity. I had never taken any formal training but I had heard that one… Read more »
Janduli Kahn: Shaman of the Kalash
In July of 2001 I traveled to Pakistan to visit a small group of animists called the Kalash. I was told that the most powerful of the three remaining Kalash Dehars (Shaman) was at a mountain camp where he spends the summer herding his goats.
Mengatohue: Shaman of the Huaroriani Tribe
In November of ’99 I made a trip to the headwaters of the Amazon in Ecuador’s Northern Oriente as part of my series on indigenous people and their spiritual mediators—the people we in the west refer to as Shamans.
Lindsa: Shaman of the Nanai Tribe
Next my exploration of shamanism and culture brought me to the small village of Daerga, on the Amu River of Siberia. My guide, Nadia, explained to me that all of the shaman in this area are older women, one of which is 87 yr. old Lindsa.