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Health and Healing
Global Discourse and
Traditional Healing
International Patients
Each culture and society has formulated myths, belief systems, adaptive strategies, specialized cultural knowledge, and healing techniques.
Within the twenty-first century, midst modernity, globalization and the age of information, these healing techniques are no longer confined to the regions of their origination and cultural enclaves.
Illness has .....
both shaped and altered kinship roles societal expectations and rituals economic and ecological strategies and further defined each culture’s medicinal acceptations and practices (Atler: 2005: 3; Penn: 2000).
Inspired many more to explore its causes and its effects
And even more to heal!
Man is perpetually caught within the web
Of ReligionMagic
and Science
Rise of Western medicine
Brought scientific methodSeeming dominance
Artificial Division of Science and ReligionLife and medicine
Classification of Traditional/Indigenous Healing Methods as OTHER!
Thailand 2006-2006 Conferenceand connectedness.
Traditional Medicine Usage
Alma Ata and Issues1971 James RestonBarefoot Doctors
Who can be called a medical professional?
What is medicine and how can we gauge healing?
What are accepted standards and when should they be applied?
Why aren't there more integrated temas of healers and M.D. s?
Indigenous ResponsesHybrid Discourse
Anxious to save their lands promote cultural understanding and
continuity, Ecologically and economically sustainable living, tribal and ethnic
recognition and self-determination (Neizen: 2003)
ApprenticeshipsHealing Villages
Collaboration
Healers, Shamans, medicine men
Healers, shamans, medicine men and women--those committed to the sacred art of healing, (Turner: 2005) who heal because they are called to do so through whatever methods and means available to them.
As Rosita Arvigo (1994) highlighted, this is a sacred pact. It is not entered into lightly and the (Turner: 2005) path that leads one to engage in its practices is often as unique as the healers themselves.
Dr. Rosita and don Eligio Panti
Collaboration
Projects in Africa with Traditional Healers
Many ways of “mining or harvesting” Information
Difficulties
Learning to see the world through “Native eyes.”
Healing Villages
Cultural revitalizationEconomic sustainability
Healers as cultural brokers restoring connections
among people and with the land and the Source*
SustainabilityHeal People and the earth
Sacred relationships
Tales of experience travel on...
And every moment in every place every society faces illness of a loved one
and the quest for true healing continues