[mimi2112]

Watching this documentary about a guy who suddenly starts seeing things one day. It's called Wake Up. Am watching it on Netflix.http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?m...1afb-137587455

[newtus]

i think i had that on my netflix list

[Sometimes psychotic]

Neat! Thanks!

[Ash0198]

damn it i cant watch it because they dont have it here in Aussie ....but i did watch the trailer and it looks amazing!!

[mimi2112]

It really was amazing! The thing that stood out for me is that his wife and others did not automatically label him, although at first his wife did think " OMG he is SZ!".

He set out to find out what was happening to him since a lot of it was frightening, and confusing. He went all over the world to meet with spiritualists, mystics, Buddhist monks, paranormal investigators, Eastern healers, Native Americans. He got lucky when his experience with a Pdoc was positive in that the pdoc did not slap him w/ a Sz label, did some brain scans and other tests to rule out medical conditions. He was not medicated thank god.

Ultimately his experience really changed his life for the positive. He came to believe that he has a gift, he has a purpose.

I would like to hear from others who have watched it. For those who haven't seen it, I really hope you do see it.

[Gr3tta]

I am planning on watching this today or tomorrow depending on how the construction goes.

[Sometimes psychotic]

I really liked it---and I like his idea that all arrows point to the same thing. I know one of my friends for the last 15 years hears voices but interprets them as being psychic rather than disordered. She has roots with traditional Christianity but has learned shamanism, healing , animal communication and a few other things about past lives etc but for her it all fits together seamlessly. Some people are bothered by this.

There was also a guy who said not to confuse the experience with the path---I liked that. I mean for two years I've been trying to explain what happened to me scientifically and now I know what happened down to the genetic level but it really hasn't helped me to know that, except to let go of the search. So now I'm going back to some of the things that happened to me----most of my journey was to become a shaman and heal people. Interestingly when I stopped the hallucinations the first time it was by picturing a celtic cross, two things worked about the cross, one the circle with cross-hairs emblem, also known as the solar cross which has unfortunately been adopted by white supremacists---I'm not sure why because its an ancient symbol standing for the sun. Anyway the second thing that worked about the cross were the celtic knots, when you picture the interlacing strands moving and forming the knots the hallucinations stopped. I just really like the idea that you could potentially control the hallucinations at will. So apparently there is this thing called celtic shamanism...I had no idea, but I downloaded samples of a few books onto my kindle. I've been thinking about going deeper into the spiritual aspects of my recovery and I think this movie may have been the tipping point. I was inspired by his journey.

I also really like the point about the random number generators changing in response to global consciousness, pretty cool. So what if it is true that our thoughts hold power---I'm thinking about making my shaman staff that I saw in my visions---its sort of a hooked cane that is yellow with attached bells, peacock feathers and a center stone of rose quartz. My feeling about this is that its harmless in the least----it may be true or may not be true but I would like to have it and if it is true than I could passively heal people. I really like that idea. Its odd to me that I never made the staff while I was sick, but instead found a peacock shaded floor lamp that had a similar hook shaped top and bought that. The lamp is still special to me but never so beautiful as when I was psychotic---the colors were incredible. The thing is one of the things I learned was that I didn't need to carry the staff, just to picture carrying it to have the power---so any staff I created on this world would be just to strengthen the link to the true staff which resides in the spirit world and cannot be created here. I know this sounds a little out there but really I'm OK despite the medication decrease....I feel like the meds made me block out some of the more relaxed creative aspects of myself and now the questions are arising. One of the things the voices told me was that I couldn't find in a book what I needed, that I could only find it by interacting with people and hearing stories so I'm not sure what I downloaded on my kindle will help me other than to direct me to the right group of people on my journey. OK so I got a off on a tangent, but that is where I'm at right now. I just bought the perfect celtic cross for my altar its on a perfume bottle, antique never seen one quite like it, pewter and it has a turquoise transparent stone at the center of the cross surrounded by leaves and celtic knots. Its not authentic in an ancient sense but then back to the all arrows pointing at the same thing I think it was perfect for me that its a mix of symbols. Below is a picture of it if its still posted.
http://img0.etsystatic.com/009/0/518...53136_s9yj.jpg

[mimi2112]

I know this sounds a little out there but really I'm OK despite the medication decrease....I feel l

Sp : You sound perfectly sane to me! Don't you see that you are already healing others by sharing your experiences? You are that Shaman from your visions.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this documentary. It really was a mind bending trip for me.
The one guy who said it all starts form within ourselves- the healing.

Sp you said,
" ----most of my journey was to become a shaman and heal people"

[newtus]

im watching it...
this is really hard for me to watch.
cuz of my experiences.
especially when she sayd she thought he was schizophrenic.

[newtus]

does it make me schizophrenic to say my journey was similar to this but not this? sometimes i wonder really about my visions and seeing shadows and lights and hearing conversations that many times dont make sense in the context of typical schizophrenia. i hear people talking like they are on the phone. good and bad stuff. neutral stuff. i see flashes of light at night which don't make sense. flashes of light where theres no light or little. where there shouldn't be any. voices where there shouldn't be any. shadows where theres light. shadows in daytime too. I'm only touching on an aspect of my experiences because it transcends spiritual too.

the way they were touching hands made me think of how jesus touched/healed physically. with meditative hands. also the way the photographer said "I'm only saying what i felt". also he says "they say in italy when you have a sudden shiver a spirit passed by" i believe in that because of the energy.

i would say i see more demons than angelic things but the angels try to get to me more but they can't because the demons are blocking them. is what I'm feeling. i feel like 95% of the time God is calling me. i know some or many here don't believe in that. but I'm not even talking about God as in CHRISTIANITY but I'm talking about a christian-like God. a loving God someone who calls to show and bring others to…..well OThERS. others to others. people to people. thats why i hate these medicines. they don't let me see what maybe can help me. what maybe i can use to figure my life out even though I'm hurt by it. it makes your life worse because for 1: OTHER people don't like it and 2: your hurt by it because this society doesn't allow for downtime in life or a way to figure this stuff out.

i like how he said "everyone has their own timetable" for this what they experience.

apparently he did a sweat lodge too.

he said "i havent gone insane. ive gone sane. i dont want to take this for granted"