The Difference Between My Psychiatrist and My Shaman
Dylan Charles, Editor
Waking Times
Nowhere is the disconnect between science and spirit felt more intimately than in matters of mental health.
We can speak empirically on this by saying things like, “America spends over $113 billion a year on mental health treatment,” or “depression affects over 14.8 million adults,” but, cold data marginalizes actual human experience, so if you’re suffering, this doesn’t really help much.
The statistical view does, however, tell us that mental illness is epidemic in our culture, that an enormous economy has risen around the mainstream medical approaches to treating mental illness, and that this industry does not appear to be effective in reversing the growing epidemic of mental illness.
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