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When medical professionals pathologize your spiritual gifts

I can see auras around certain people but when I mentioned it to my doctor they suggested I get my eyes checked and maybe talk to someone about hallucinations.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Indigenous perceptual abilities are often medicalized rather than recognized as valid forms of spiritual sensitivity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — Pacific?”

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