Embracing Unknown Truths

Does it ever occur to you, why a so called illness could have stigma attached to it ? Does it ever occur to as to why indigenous cultures have nearly been destroyed ? What if I said to you that in indigenous cultures, the person that in our culture is at the bottom, is at the top ? What if these people were able to show us a different way ? Instead of becoming the lowest of the low in our wonderful, loving and tolerant society. If we were to be indigenous we would go to a particular person for healing, advice, ceremony and well being and contact with the spirits. If we were to be western, these people would have their place too. Heavily medicated and on the bottom, not the top. They would be put in a class of madness, which is where they sit right now. Just the thought of the complete annihilation of indigenous cultures begs the question. What is the threat to today's western culture from people who have the same symptoms as an indigenous person did early in life ?

Mental illness.....is a made up term by those who understand, that what the mentally ill know, is a threat to their very existence. So what does an entity (of today's society) find threatening ? Could it be the realization that those with a mental illness actually really know the truth ? If you were in an indigenous culture and showed the same signs as a highly medicated, bottom of the food chain, stigma hammered person, you would actually be celebrated. You would be nurtured, you would be guided, you would be loved. For in an indigenous culture what you are going through, is the signs that tell your community members, that you are the next shaman, healer etc. This is now well documented. But if we are diagnosed with this thing, that labels you as having a problem, you are labelled as someone who is basically worthless and to be feared of in the west and according to pharmaceutically sponsored modern psychiatry, have an illness. This is the opposite of the indigenous cultures.

I find it fascinating that these 2 paradigms can be so different. The indigenous cultures are nearly at the brink of extinction and in the west the mentally ill are silenced with psychotropic drugs. Does this not raise questions in you ? Why would these 2 things, that seemingly have the same symptoms be killed off and or drugged to the point of not being able to speak ? These are things that truly have a connection. What is the connection with indigenous people being hunted to near extinction and white people being dumbed down to extinction ? What transpires from both perspectives, the indigenous shaman and the western mentally ill is that both of them have exactly the same experiences. The opening of a new awakening, a rebirth, voices, visions, the ability to feel things that are about to occur, the list is endless. My opinion is this.....Mental Illness is not an illness, it is a gift. And it's demonstrated as so in the ever declining indigenous cultures, who DO know the truth, as do those who are medicated into oblivion....

Why then, in the west would these people be drugged to numbness ?
Why would the west constantly try to eliminate the indigenous ?
What do they both know about the current system ?