Beyond Shamanism

My background is that of a physician, trained in contemporary Western Medicine. Having studied Medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and at the University of Rennes in France, I received my "approbation", which is my license, from the State of Bavaria in 1996, and yet, today I work as a Traditional Healer.

Let me briefly explain, what I mean by "Traditional Healer":

Sometimes people ask me whether I am a "Shaman". I am not a shaman — what I am and do is beyond "shamanism".

Let me go back to a conversation I had with my "fellow brother", Thomas Pela, Healer with the Hopi people on Second Mesa: As we are, we are born with this knowledge of how to heal, it lies hidden within us and we discover it along our path. We go from initiation to initiation and more and more knowledge comes through us. We do not have to put ourselves in a certain state of consciousness, to perceive the world behind the Maya, the illusion, through the use of mind-altering substances or chants, drumming or rituals. We are already there. We see the others around us "naked", in what and who they are and how they perceive the world.

We see, what they carry as imprints on them. Emotional trauma, disease, psychic troubles, spiritual conflicts... they are evident to us.

For us it takes to overcome our own troubles, to heal, what we have already brought into this world and what has left its traces on us, when we had to undergo socialization and enculturalization. Beyond this is clarity, is emptiness and the capacity to be 100 % empathetic in order to feel, see, hear and taste what our next (patient / client) needs in order to be rebalanced and healed, so to walk his way "in Beauty", which means in harmony within him and around him.

There is no space for Ego in this work, because ego keeps one’s Self from perceiving the other entirely and from being a conduct for the force of creator, which is the healing power that flows through us into the patient / client. Ego can make us sick, because ego holds on to negative energies that flow through us from the patient / client during a session.

So part of my work is work on myself, to clear myself and to stay in communion with the source. Only when I am clear, can I work in the manner I do.

What is this work? It is "hands-on work" on the physical body. Yet at the same time I work on all five bodies. I see the human being as consisting of several bodies. Apart from the physical, we could see them as the emotional, the psychological, the metaphysical and the spiritual body. I see diseases as the shadows of the emotional and other bodies cast onto the physical where after a certain time of imbalance they eventually manifest as diseases.

To revive, release and heal these emotional traumas, I bring them back from the physical level into the emotional and/or higher energetic levels, so that either the patient can live through them and release them (kathartic work) or I help them to flow out of the body, by helping the patient to "breath them out", while I "pull" them out and help these energies to flow. This part of the work looks like a mix of cranio-sacral therapy, chiropraxis, acupressure, Hatha-Yoga, reflexology, myofascial release therapy and other known "manual" therapy forms.

As the whole body is a body-mind unit and memory is to be found in every cell, I trigger the release of this memory... emotions, thought patterns, images, colors... and help it to be healed by the force of creator, a deep feeling of love for this life and this creation. Very often this is perceived as heat and / or a strong energy flow.

I do not apply a technique, though it might look like this. I let the body of the patient give me the information of what has to be done. My body just functions as a conduct. Sometimes I have to "burp", when the flow of "dark" energy is high, I have to cough, sneeze or yawn or my body shakes off "dark" energy, when the original life energy, which flows through the spine has been compressed by trauma, which is released at that moment.

I have to open and clear certain chakras, I have to remove objects or energy blocks, all of which can tell me a story... I see / feel bullets, arrows, cords, strings, liquids or matter in the body, which I remove by what is called "metaphysical surgery".

I see / feel the imbalance of parts of the bodies and / or afflictions of organs. I see / feel the imbalance between the right (male) and the left (female) side of the body and I rebalance it. Certain glands are reactivated and the immune system stimulated by doing so. The same happens to hormones involved in the biological aging process of the body and so the process of aging and altered cell growth is slowed down.I go back in the "record body" of the patient to heal past life afflictions and spiritual  troubles a soul has undergone in lives before. Sometimes there are stories about abuse of power by the patient or stories where the patient has been abused and so I have to heal this in order to release the shadows that lie on the patient.

So I call myself a "Traditional Healer". The Ancient Egyptians worked like this in their temples and so did the Ancient Greek, before Hippokrates, the one, we as modern days’ Medical Doctors, swear our oath to, left the Asklepeian traditions, in which priest and physician were one. Many old cultures had and still have their healers and healing traditions.

For us, who carry this knowledge, it is time to spread the understanding, that if we do not heal the afflictions of the soul, we do nothing but repair work on the vessel, which carries the soul. We treat, but we will never healÉand it is time, to bring this forgotten knowledge of how to do this back to the people, to those, who have the gift to heal and to those, who wish to be healed.