"All negative thoughts, shamans believe, are dark spirits speaking to us, trying to scare us into reacting; the spirits then feed on our reactivity, growing stronger and more formidable until they finally rule over us. This is how, Hamilton suggests, addictions and psychological disorders develop in people.
"Everyone hears the voices of spirits," he tells me. "They've just convinced themselves that they are hearing their own thoughts." We must, he maintains, practice choosing which thoughts we pay attention to."
I feel like I go through a spirit cleansing ayahuasca ceremony every month I have my period. Lol. Women cry and bleed, we don't need to vomit spirits. We ARE the shamans.
5:20 p.m. - 2012-07-15