METAPHY S ICS
I can see his mind is playing and replaying events he had no control over, internalising and repeating guilt and remorse from his forever-tarnished youth. Mark was one of the many unlucky young civilians drafted when his birthday was drawn in the conscript ballots during the Vietnam War. The Australian government, concerned
Vietnam veteran
Raym’s client is a Vietnam veteran ready to put his demons to rest. His shamanic journey takes him to a place he had forgotten and uncovers more than he believes is possible.
by Raym Richards I
t is dark, really dark. We are quietly creeping through dense jungle, in single file, next to a fast flowing river.
Malarial mosquitos whine close to our faces. Our way ahead is illuminated only by starlight. I can feel the fear emanating from Mark, whose stomach is cramping as he grits his teeth, holding back the evacuation of his watery bowels. His reconnaissance patrol is behind enemy lines and every cell of his being wants out. This is not as I remember it, he
telepaths. Not what I expected. I hurt people, but not here. – This is where your body has taken us
when you commanded it to show where your trauma started. The other things you think are important are not. Really? – What happened here? Truly...I don't actually recall.
– Then let's allow this to play out… The soldier in front touches Mark and
he passes the signal back. ‘Stop. Prepare to cross the creek’, the touch conveys.
The local in the very front knows the way, but the river looks too fast and deep for an easy ford. His mates have told him there are crocs in there, and the area they're in is crawling with Vietcong. Oh shit! As he enters the water his
bowels finally give out and his whole body gives way to abject terror. Will somebody get me out of there? His telepathic cry for help screams out across the universe, so loud he even thinks he may be screaming. And then it happens… Mark is a heavy-set man who would
have been muscular in his prime. Now his muscles are soft and his once firm belly sags. He has the washed out, limp, pasty, slightly vacant look of someone who has been on medication for too long. I ask why he has come to see me. “I did terrible things…” His voice
trembles as he recalls his activities as a conscript in a hot and steamy war that nobody really wanted and whose heroes were never truly thanked.
that the conflict might destabilise the region and affect its interests in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, could see that its small standing army would not be enough for the growing conflict being fuelled by its North American ally. So the young 20-something man that Mark was, who had zero interest in being a soldier, found himself kitted out after basic training, travelling to a place he had never heard of to fight people he had no argument with, whose politics were actually not too far from his own. I can see Mark is about to start a long
dialogue and I realise the best thing is to get him lying in the crystal mandala immediately, rather than regurgitate what he has been through many times with army therapists and veteran support groups. He has come to see me for a shamanic journey, not another therapy session. The process begins and I travel with
him into his present life's past, where we find ourselves shuffling through the mud next to a crocodile-infested creek. It is crucial that Mark have a clear recall and understanding of what happens next… Something is happening. I feel the fear
easing. – Why? Something is comforting me, offering
me succour. – You must examine it. Why? It’s working. My fear is easing. – This is the key to your depression.
It's why you came to see me; to find it. I don’t want to. It’s not happy you are
here.
Raym’s shamanic healing technique Crystal Dreaming™ involves clients accessing a safely expanded sate of consciousness by laying in a mandala of crystals. In this state, present life challenges are tracked to their source in other times, places and realities. Their resolution has immediate effect on this here and now.
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