Events

Over the last twenty years increasing numbers of people of western cultural origin are seeking solutions to chronic illness through initiation into the spirit medium traditions of Southern Africa.
These people are finding that in many cases symptoms, for which they had fruitlessly sought solutions in western treatment modalities closely resemble those described by traditional mediums and magicians in many parts of Africa as ‘the illness of calling’.

The physiological and psycho spiritual symptoms associated with this condition are understood in these cultures to be treatable only through the rigorous initiations and treatments associated with becoming a spirit medium.

Is the only answer to "the Illness of calling" to be initiated as a spirit medium or shaman? What are the implications of this process for the initiate? Is the cultural background of the prospective initiate important? How is the "illness of calling" differentiated from psycho-pathology?

Join Colin Campbell for a talk exploring some of the most important and controversial questions relating to the subject of psycho-spiritual pathology, mediumship and shamanic’ initiation.