i'm interested in the "professionalization" of "energetic healing" ' it has been conspicuous to me for a while that there r all of these "workshops" and "name brand lineages" of new age varieties on the one hand — and on the other hand ancient healing traditions where lineage is formed from a trail of teachers who taught students who became teachers and who now teach and practice out of those lineages ' it's also been conspicuous to me that many of these /lineages/ end up being studied by people who have studied psychology or medicine or psychiatry and been licensed to practice in those fields — and then end up being /absorbed/ by those fields — and to me ? especially when it comes to shamanic lineages ? in the process they r distorted with regard to — 1/ the self healing requirements of practitioners who r ordained to give the gift of the work / medicine ' 2/ how energy or money is exchanged for the work ' 3/ the barrier of entry for traditional lineage holders (e.g. learning psychology or medicine) is often financially far too high and or time-consuming and or /doesn't actually improve that person's ability to do the work/ ' i'm interested in what professionalization of /energy healing/ looks like — and i've been talking to a lot of people about it for a long time — and i know it's important bc i've been thwarted many times by what i will call /interference/ from /thought forms/ aka "demons" ' i would like to hear from others on this — both fellow practitioners of "energetic healing" and those who r interested and or skeptical about the field ' topics i would like to hold space for include — 1/ what a code of ethics / principles of practice look like ' 2/ what is the common theoretical / possibly-empirically-verifiable basis of this work ? ' how do we know it's working ? ' how do we know if it's not working ? ' 3/ what does accountability aka "trust & safety" look like ? (if u've been following @thebroomradio's work on #safety or #thestick then u may have some idea how /i/ feel about it ' 4/ what does a path to legitimization or even insurance-coverage look like ? ' if u r interested in discussing these topics with me, plz dm me (@nobuhojimichaan) or @intrepidbodies or @AnnaFalby or @thebroomradio ' or ? reply in the comments with questions or remarks ' we would love to hear from u ' #shoptok '

@AnnaFalby @karenokeee i lost two of my familiars in the past two years and it was brutal '

@lumpfished mm did u read the study ? ' this seems quite similar to the training that was given to the people who were participating '

@sidewayskoyote @sonikudzu where was that ? ' i've been to the aftermath of usaid helping people in haiti to have stable health information systems and access to internet in remote areas '

@neuroblossom @tunguz that part '

anyway, the people who were studied for those studies may b v different to the people who responded to ur poll ! ' as such, it seems to me, ironically, overly confident of u to assume that the results of ur poll support the statement u made that people r overconfident in their lack of overconfidence ! 💀 '

@TylerAlterman i'm praying for them '

@cliobscure wow i think only my 95 year old grandma who barely speaks english isn't aware of ai hype '

@quotidiania kakakak ashe '

my (hakka) parents came to australia bc of systemic discrimination in malaysia ' (yes, hakka r chinese but also, kinda not by definition) ' my father happens to b v scholarly ' my mother is a v undisciplined scholar ' both of them were like 95% percentile athletic / attractive within their communities ' so yes, i have had many awkward interactions with people who prefer to keep people like me in boxes '

@taijitu_sees mmm ' agreed on many points ' i do enjoy defragging '

@quotidiania me too ! '

i disagree that a common binding needs to b used to share experiences but it is the normative way of sharing experiences ' for me, words r the seeds of demons and thought forms ' my lineages don't differentiate between them ' there r ways of using words and not using words to gesture at experiences so that a receiver may find the experiences of their own that align with my experiences ' words r more commonly vectors of transmission so that receivers may suppress their own experience in order to take on aspects of my experiences ' when extrapolated, this creates a uniformity of experience which leads to stagnation ' of course, dao will correct itself '

but yeh ime people r so coddled they can't handle when people disagree w them and now we're in an awful mess '

@maxisawesome538 also ur not awesome lol '