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Olga Kharitidi
OLGA
KHARITIDI
Olga Kharitidi is a Russian doctor and
psychiatrist currently living and working in the U.S. She was born
in Siberia and worked for some years in a Soviet mental hospital.
Her orthodox views of health, and indeed of reality, were challenged by
her unlooked-for experiences with the living traditions she met in the
snowbound Altai Mountains of Siberia. Later she found herself in
Samarkand, meeting people and undergoing experiences that reinforced her
sense of an ancient and hidden knowledge of healing, that it might be
possible to bring out into the open, if it could be done in the right way.
She says:
“ For many years I have studied and explored the native traditions in
Siberia and Central Asia in order to understand the patterns of their
healing results”
“I now firmly believe that there is knowledge and information in Asia,
still hidden behind the cultural curtain, which is valuable and powerful
and can increase our understanding of healing practice greatly.”
I have shared my personal insights gained from the experiences in Siberia
in my books “Entering the Circle” and "The Master of Lucid
Dreams" .
THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRAUMA
If you
watch a plant over weeks or months it is easy to see that another word for
this kind of “growth” is “transformation”. It is less
easy however to see a “trauma” as a “seed”. Violent
acts and shocking challenges capture energy, and we can certainly
understand traumas as locked up energy, even including our own energy.
Though traumatic experiences are often buried, they are rarely watered . .
. we are too scared of the unknown power and of the pain we sense is
there. The last thing we want is for the trauma to “grow”
. . . . but if that energy could be reclaimed, if that experience could be
revisited and transformed . . . .
Ancient cultures understood that human life is a journey with inherent
transitions that are innately traumatic, and need to be managed.
Olga Kharitidi