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Malidoma Patrice Somé was a West African writer and workshop leader, primarily in the field of spirituality. He was born in a Dagara community in Dano, Burkina Faso, and he moved to the West to share his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and practices of his people with the rest of the world.

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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

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Between Two Worlds Malidoma Somé on Rites of Passage

On the first page of your autobiography you write, “My elders are convinced that the West is as endangered as the indigenous cultures it has decimated.” They sent you from your village into the “white wilderness” in part to help save us. In what way is the West endangered?

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On Gift and Life Purpose

It is inconceivable that we humans could be in this world for no reason. There is no way we and our purpose can be ignorant of, or completely alienated from each other like twins who were separated at birth.

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Politics March/April 1995 Issue Visions: Malidoma Some

A few years ago, at his tribal elders’ direction, Malidoma Some gave up a comfortable professorial position teaching African culture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to travel the U.S. teaching African initiation and rituals in a more grassroots manner.

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