"http://malidoma.com/
This is the site of the African shaman that I posted an article beforehand.
He is an initiated elder of the dagara people of west Africa, who believe that mental illness is completely misunderstood in the west, and that it actually signals good news from the spirit world, because (not to deny their suffering) it signals the birth of a healer"
The Dagara people don't "initiate" elders, particularly outsiders who weren't raised in the culture and who don't actually live there. Malidoma, though perhaps well intentioned, is connected to a large network of known frauds and plastic shamans. He sells ceremony and spirituality for exorbitant amounts of money, mostly to disillusioned Black people; but increasingly to White new-agers who are more likely to afford his services. You can't sell culture, and you can't learn from someone who's spent almost their entire life outside of the culture they claim to represent.
And please be careful using the word 'shaman'. While in pop-culture it's used as an umbrella term for any kind of traditional/Indigenous healer, Shamanism is a specific practice that still exists and can be traced to Siberia. Not all Indigneous healing systems are the same and lumping them together under one synonymous term, disregarding the names they have chosen for themselves, is disempowering and disrespectful.
I don't mean to call you out, Humble one, I'm sure you mean well. But people like Malidoma are dangerous and they should not be promoted here or anywhere.
Here's a thread about him and his group on another forum:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4323.msg40501#msg40501
They mostly look into White new-agers who appropriate and sell Indigenous culture, but sometimes they take down other types of culture vultures (eg faux Pagans, traditional African culture, traditional Eastern culture, etc...)
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