DISTILLING LIVED EXPERIENCE

Traditional healers always take their time in making decisions about the spiritual wellbeing of their clients, or the decision as to whether or not someone is appropriate for further formal spiritual training. Traditional healers realize that the spiritual journey is a personal one. Traditional people take their understanding of the creator from the manifestations of creation. Their position is that if you want to understand someone or something, look at the manifestations of that thing. They therefore want to know what is, what exists, and how it interacts with whatever else is. How does it function, how can it be activated, and what does it do when it is activated. They apply the same approach when dealing with the spirit of a person. They want to know what motivates that person, why does he or she do what they do, what are their strengths and what are their weaknesses. The traditional approach is this way because of the understanding of the nature of spiritual forces. When the knowledge of the use of a particular thing is passed on, then the one who passes on the knowledge is just as responsible for the use of this knowledge, as the one who has received it.