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Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio

Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio

Update: 2025-08-22
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Is “schizophrenia” a broken brain — or shamanic journeying to ancestral dimensions? Is being “out of touch with reality” actually visions of deeper truth and racial healing? Dick Russell – author of 17 books including on the JFK assassination and a biography of Jungian James Hillman – followed doctors’ advice when his son Franklin was diagnosed psychotic. But Franklin, who is of mixed race, only got worse — until Russell and Franklin’s mother Etta Russell-Scott joined West African traditional healer Malidoma Somé on a spiritual quest. Franklin’s creative flourishing helped repair the relationship between father and son, and with Franklin’s support, Russell wrote My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage between Schizophrenia and Shamanism to bring crucial lessons for all of us. (transcript here)

https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781629144870/my-mysterious-son/

https://dickrussell.substack.com/

https://dickrussell.org/

www.madinamerica.com/2014/12/mysterious-son/

malidoma.com/about/

https://dickrussell.substack.com/

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