SHAMANIC MEDICINE - THE CURE OF ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION

AN AUTHENTIC PROFESIONAL TESTIMONY ABOUT THE SHAMANIC CURE OF THE
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS,

DEGENERATIVE DESEASES

ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION,

SCHIZOPHRENIA,

DRUGADDICTION AND DEPENDENCY ON MEDICAMENTS

WITH THE SACRED POWER PLANTS (AYAHUASCA, SAN PEDRO, TOBACCO, GUAYUSA, ETC.) OF THE INDIAN-AMERICAN SHAMANISM.

THE FIRE WITHIN

THE SHAMANIC CURE OF DEPRESSION

With most of the people concerned or affected by this dramatic illness, who pos­sibly have taken the trouble to heal or to at least ease their cruel mental ail­ment of exhaustions and anguish already since decades with the methods known by western psychiatry, this question will possi­bly evoke only an in­credu­lous head shake. For the Austrian MD, Heinz Valentin Hampejs, by profession specialist for neurology, psy­chiatry, general medicine and inves­tiga­tor of Shamanism in South America, obviously is this no more a ques­tion, however, because he assures to fi­nally be able to heal this ailment definitely in at the most three weeks. For this, however, the psychoener­getic transformation poten­tial of the so-called "Sacred Power Plants" of the In­dian-American Sha­manism is imperative. The doctor ex­plains to be able to put un­der proof anytime his assertion about the shamanic curability of the "Endogenous De­pression". In order to be able to do this any­where, how­ever, a free special importa­tion and application permission would have to be granted for the medicines required for this demonstration (i.e. for AYAHUASCA, botanical name: Banisteriopsis Caapi; and SAN PEDRO, botanical name: Trichocereus Pacchanoi).

INTRODUCTION IN A SHAMANIC CEREMONY

Dr. Hampejs devotes himself since nearly thirty years to the explora­tion, teaching and practice of the Shamanic medicine of South and North America. In 1991  he wrote a scientific monograph by commission of the Pub­lic Health Board from Ecuador about the psychoenergetic principles operat­ing in Indian Shamanism, entitled: "El X-tasis Shamánico de la Conciencia - Principio Medular de la Medicina Shamánica" (published by  Editorial ABYA -YALA, Quito, Ecuador in 1994).

(The German version entitled „Die Schamanische Bewusstseinsekstase - Kernprinzip der Scha­mani­schen Medizin“ will be published soon by Kollateral Verlag (GmbH) UG Ludwig Erhard Str.30 in 65760 Eschborn, Deutschland; the Spanish version is being published by ABYA YALA Edit./Quito Ecuador since 1994.) {Translation of the titles: „The Shamanic Ecstasy of Con­sciousness – Core Principle of Sha­manic Medicine“}

THE SHAMANIC CURE OF THE DEPRESSION

IN THE EXAMPLE OF TWO YOUNG WOMEN

IN ECUADOR

In May 2004 a friend from Pirmasens, Germany, in­formed me that I could ad­dress to the so called ("Net of compe­ten­cies for depressions of Germany") that represents an initia­tive aided by the European Union (UE) to sensi­tize people affected by depres­sive illnesses and the public in gen­eral through the Internet. Well, I had under­taken a personal initia­tive already at the beginning of the month to noise abroad among friends in Europe the in­formation on the shamanic curability of the so called "Endogenous Depression". Naturally I was very grateful to have re­ceived this indication, be­cause I could address now to an al­ready preexis­tent platform of informa­tion ex­change, about whose existence had not known before.

It is widely known that the depression, denominated "endogenous" by the for­mal medi­cine, is an illness of the soul, spirit and mind, characterized by such states of psychoenergetic exhaustion, anguishes and desperation that affected people pre­fer with alarm­ing frequency to suicide themselves in ex­change for their exis­tential martyrdom. The depression is the illness with the biggest incidence of sui­cides at world level (!), and in view of the sha­manic curability of the depression, relatively easy; it was a genuine de­sire to put in circulation this information, since in my sha­manic rituals depres­sive pa­tients are healed definitively in maxi­mum three weeks.

1. To tell the truth, my wife and I participated in this night ritual with the SAN PEDRO* - MEDICINE, carried out in the surroundings of Quito / Ecuador, only as in­vited shamans. Hilario Chiriap, a young shaman of the tribe of the Shuaras, who lead this ritual, honored me when inviting me spontane­ously to di­rect the ceremony in un­ion with him.

SAN PEDRO - WACHUMA - MESCALITO

The ingestion of the SAN PEDRO - MEDICINE* submerged us in a special state of conscious­ness and perception, known as “Shamanic Ecstasy of Consciousness". We already had spent some hours in this night with prayers, mantric and sha­manic healing and invocation songs, when a young female participant named Paola, approxi­mately 23 years old, began to cry de­plorably and to call for her mother with all her body shaken by continuous moving sobs: "Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama! “. The woman's state, really worthy of pity, intensified by mo­ments in such a way that all the other ones began to worry seriously, particularly when this situation had already con­tinued about three hours; and neither the interventions of Hilario nei­ther of the other participants, in their majority also familiarized with the Shamanic Medicine, were able to provide a real and effec­tive help to the patient in this passage so dramatic of her harrow­ing psychic state. Sud­denly I "knew", "saw", what had happened in the past of the girl's life, and without thinking it a lot, I proceeded to ask her: "Do you know, on princi­ple, why you are calling for your mother so despair­ingly? “ She didn’t re­spond. – "Because, she wanted to abort you!”

Then I passed over to her on the other side, and while talking to her peace­fully that she would have to learn now how to forgive her mother, I gave her three blessed blows with my Medicine - Pipe on her hands, joined in prayer, on her crown, her back and her chest. “She, in these moments, was living with her mother in the same house, the one that to­day is her best friend and she could not know the desperate circum­stances, in which her pro­genitor was during her pregnancy. To who of us would not have to be forgiven some­thing?" After five minutes, Paola was calm and centered. In the morn­ing she separated a little from the group, sat down above a high rock in the proximity with the body bent forward and the arm crossed on her calves and was ob­viously absorbed in a deep meditation.

2. This SAN PEDRO - RITUAL was carried out in our own place of rituals in Tum­baco, near Quito, and it was under my personal direction. Mónica, an ap­proxi­mately forty year-old woman, was seated to my right; there were also present about eight young men and women. Having already lapsed some hours, I felt that I should help her, be­cause she was very nauseous; and I felt that these nauseas wouldn’t diminish although she had already vom­ited several times. It also called my attention that she was seated with her legs attracted to her belly, in curved position like an embryo.

When I blew an alcoholic extract of aromatic herbs on her hands joined by way of prayer, she entered immediately in such sobs, mewls and cries that I was moved to sit down next in order to tran­quilize her with my hug. Lapsed this way more or less half hour, she calmed finally and babbled, still sobbing, that to her mother had died another infant, when she was pregnant with her.

Monica knew naturally about her little brother's tragic death, because they had related it to her, but the cellular memory of her body could remember the abys­mal sadness, to which she was subjected in her mother's belly along some months during the pregnancy and the one that was still in­stilled into her after her birth with the ma­ternal milk, only due to this rit­ual experience. In spite of all the psychiatric helps, Monica had suffered of seri­ous depres­sions during many years, with­out being able to even imag­ine, which the causes of her depression were. However, also in this case a single shamanic ceremony was needed to cure her.

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With these two casuistically examples I don't want to insinuate in no way that the maternal in­tention of aborting the fetus or the death of an infant during the mother's pregnancy would represent the only imaginable causes for the mani­festa­tion of a depression in the later life of this fetus.

If it could not be understood that these two women were liberated defini­tively of their depressions with these ritual experiences, it is because one does­n't simply want to under­stand. But for thinking men it should be of easy understanding at least that such a DEFINITIVE CURE cannot be pro­duced nei­ther with antidepressant pills neither with electric shocks, classi­cally ap­plied in the psychiatric hospitals (and much less with the futurist implanta­tion of some type of chips (!)), because in the best (?) of the cases these meas­ures would be only symptomatic, used exclusively to hide and to cam­ouflage the symp­toms of the depression - very similar to the relief of a pain with analge­sic remedies that definitively cannot elimi­nate its cause.

I said "in the best (?) of the cases", because it is a settled fact that the medi­cal authori­ties of the USA (the FDA - Food & Drug Administration)) did the antide­pres­sants put in the stool of accused: It was recognized that they are related to a bigger suicide risk among the youths, and the ex­perts make strong warnings to doctors and patients. These studies showed that a youth that ingests the investi­gated antidepres­sants ("Pro­zac" and "Zoloft", among others) has a risk of having suicidal thoughts twice as much than another one to who are administered placebos.

But apart from these "side effects", the medication of antidepressants trans­fers the sick making mechanisms at the bottom of the depression still more under the carpet, that is to say toward the subconscious, what pre­vents the patients to end up understanding their illness and to discover its possible causes, for then to be able to learn of how to overcome them. It is incontestably certain for me, both as psychia­trist and as shaman with long years of experience, that the real and definitive heal­ing of “Endogenous Depression  can be implemented only with the indispensable assistance of the so-called “Sacred Power Plants” of Indian- American Shaman­ism, because, opposed to the con­cealing strategy of the classical psychiat­ric treat­ment, they facilitate the PSYCHOCATALYTIC** liberation of the pathogenic mate­rial contained in the deepest structures of our subconscious. No procedures of any kind of alternative methods can find access there. Un­doubtedly these shamanic medicines only can be used un­der the expert guidance of an ex­perienced sha­man.

In view of the 80 millions abortions appraised at world level annually, it is more than prob­able that some people among you are suffering for a simi­lar reason of de­pressions, whose cause is a serious deficiency of vitality that can bring about cruel states of psy­choenergetic exhaustion. In the casu­istry pre­sented a little while ago, it becomes visible, how such a defi­ciency of vitality comes into being "endogenously". To understand this, no medical university education is needed, but just a healthy common sense.

I suppose that your mother, for comprehensible reasons, kept secret be­fore you such a possible crisis of consciousness that could have existed during her preg­nancy, or that she could not even communicate it nowa­days. To be able to liber­ate the sub­tle energy scheme (the cellular and reticular mem­ory) of the body from such nega­tive, destructive energies and to load it ("vita­minize" it) with natural vital forces, much deeper and more efficient instru­ments are needed than those that are at the disposal of the conven­tional psy­chotherapy, that is: the employment shamanically administered of the so called "Sacred Power Plants" of the Indian-Ameri­can Shamanism.

Their notorious incrimination as "drugs" by the WHO (World Health Or­gani­za­tion) is not only antiquated, because it has always been objection­able by the light of the ancestral wisdom of Shamanism, but is totally absurd and truly grotesque, because – among other things – the ”Sacred Power Plants" are also ex­tremely capa­ble to cure even the very drug-ad­diction, be­ing equally incurable for the formal medicine!

Why, to tell the truth, should the Psychocatalytic or Shamanic Medicines – that don’t pro­duce any dependence and are characterized by a healing power inacces­sible for the formal medicine, if they are used expertly by an experi­enced sha­man – be prohibited? … When such heavy poisons, gravely addictive, as the opium or the morphine can be used legally in our clinics? – Maybe, only because the doctors don't know how to manage the sha­manic medicines? In the interest for the health of the whole humanity, the rejuve­nated investiga­tion — but now carried through seriously under a competent, i.e. sha­manic guidance (!) — of the healing effects of these Psychocatalytic Medicines has ended up being from now on an unconditional demand of our time that should not be more postponed.

*SAN PEDRO - botanical denomination: Trichocereus Pacchanoi, a cactus of the An­des whose me­dicinal agent is the alkaloid mescaline.

**PSICOCATALITIC - term that refers to the catalytic action of the shamanic medi­cines on the sub­conscious and the consciousness, because due to it, the mate­rial depos­ited in our subconscious be­comes perceptible for the consciousness.

DR. HEINZ VALENTIN HAMPEJS

vhampejs@gmail.com