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When terminal illness intersects with indigenous spiritual teachings

My cancer came back and the doctors say six months, but my medicine man says my spirit chose this illness to teach something and I'm torn between being angry and trying to find the lesson.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional teachings about illness as spiritual communication can conflict with natural human responses to mortality.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — North America?”

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