Because at age 21 I wasn't going to be alive by age 25 otherwise.
First I studied Comparative Religion and Psychology before I studied Cultural Anthropology.
What helped me the most was to realize that I was a natural Shaman through Cultural Anthropology.
However, healers of various kinds around the world become educated as Doctors, Nurses and therapists of various kinds too who are also natural Shamans which is a healing State a person who is a natural Shaman can often find ways to heal people.
But, Cultural Anthropology taught me about life before Christianity, Buddhism, Bramanism, and Islam and other religions.
People often act like people didn't exist before these religions but they did.
And were they wrong just because Jesus hadn't been born yet?
I think not.
People were okay and also crazy just like now always.
The point really is that I came to realize that human beings were basically domesticated animals. That's really what we all are. We are very intelligent (and not always nice) animals who have each been trained and domesticated by our mothers and father and caregivers within whatever culture and language or languages we have been taught growing up.
I found understanding all this in relation to myself incredibly powerful and empowering for me to go forward in life.
I realized I had been raised in "Too Small a Box" perceptually and that the world and universe was much more expansive than the mystical Christian world I had been raised in.
It was like opening a door to the outside world when you have been shut inside a house your whole life for me.
And by the time I was 30 to 32 years old I had found a way to be happy in my life instead of dead by 25 like I expected to be at 21.
By God's Grace
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