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In reply to the discussion: 'QAnon Shaman' in plea negotiations after mental health diagnosis -lawyer [View all]Hekate
(91,463 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 23, 2021, 05:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Once upon a time, in cultures very different from the one we find ourselves in today, there was a place for people who talked with the spirits, and they trained up the few like themselves and taught their apprentices how to channel the wild energies. Other people came to them for what they knew or could discover about the future or the will of the spirits.
There is one school of thought which I find intriguing that today many of these very-long-ago people would be diagnosed much as the Shaman has been.
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Times changed. The spirits became demons from Hell, and people like the Shaman got burned at the stake.
Times changed again. People like the Shaman were locked away for the good of society and their own safety.
Times changed again. Scientists discovered they could close the channels to the wild spirits with medication.
Times changed. Governor Ronald Reagan closed the mental institutions as no longer needed, thanks to the new medications. (The ACLU helped, by the way. Free will, and all that.) People were cast out to freely decide whether they would take their medications (if they could access them) or sleep under a bridge, and their families were left to try to care for them.
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I suspect he will be released to the custody of the same mother who has been trying to take care of him all along. If he takes his medications, he will calm down and his mothers life will be easier. On the other hand, if he does take all his meds, his life will assuredly be lonely without the wild spirits and will lack purpose.