Nickens Wayne, Patchell Beverly
Healing Community, Inc., 7500 West Lake Mead Blvd., #9287, Las Vegas, NV 89128, USA.
J Cult Divers. 2005 Summer;12(2):59-61.
Most of what is written and said about healing is focused on the individual and their personal pursuit of the experience of being healed. The Healing Community shifts that focus to a larger perspective. Indigenous people have recognized the importance of community for centuries, identifying the worst possible consequence for behavior as banishment or exile from their community, not death. In the holistic view, life and death are seen as being on a continuum that occurs within a community, with all being valued. It is time to release our self-imposed and society endorsed exile from what truly heals our relationship with a greater Power and each other.
关于治愈的大多数文字和言论都聚焦于个人以及他们对治愈体验的个人追求。治愈社区将这种关注点转移到更广阔的视角。几个世纪以来，原住民一直认识到社区的重要性，他们认为行为最严重的后果是被社区放逐或流放，而非死亡。从整体观点来看，生与死被视为在一个社区内发生的连续统一体，所有一切都受到重视。是时候摆脱我们自我施加且得到社会认可的流放状态了，这种流放使我们无法与更强大的力量以及彼此建立真正能治愈关系的联系。
