Shaman by Ya'Acov Darling Khan

Author:Ya'Acov Darling Khan [Ya’Acov Darling Khan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

THE (SHAMANIC) DRAMA TRIANGLE

The drama triangle is made up of three well-known characters. Please enter Victim, Persecutor and Rescuer. In our work, we have found it helpful to name a fourth role, the Hungry Ghost. This expands Karpman’s drama triangle into a vicious circle whose momentum can devour enormous amounts of life energy. All the roles keep us away from the underlying emotions that they mask. Most of these emotions are rooted in past pain projected onto present circumstances. You will be likely to find, for example, that a Persecutor was once a Victim themselves. But unowned emotion leads to blaming, bullying, self-pity and our human predilection for maintaining the moral high ground by claiming to be the biggest Victim on the block. It is the foundation of our rigid certainties and dismissal of those we do not understand – dismissal that can so easily end in violence. It is present, too, in the spiritual malady of our addictions.

Wherever I travel, I see these roles being played out to devastating effect in our relationships with ourselves, each other and the world we live in. All of them support one another so as to remain convinced of their point of view. The Persecutor needs a Victim to blame. The Rescuer needs a Victim so they can keep the focus off themselves. The Victim needs both Rescuer and the Persecutor to keep them powerless and locked into the story that nothing can change. And the Hungry Ghost sits on a dark whirlpool of ancient emotion that feeds this vicious circle and keeps it turning at speed, sucking the life out of us and keeping us locked into our suffering.

Over the years, I’ve developed a way of working with these characters that leads into working with the shadow. In my experience, shadows can and do show up in all areas of life – money, sex, power, you name it. I’ve found it enormously fruitful and life-benefitting to actively seek out my own shadows. I’m confident you will too.

The Inner Shaman is a fine ally in this. Their love of the unknown and intrinsic creativity are invaluable at those inevitable times in life when the lights go out and we find ourselves stumbling in the dark. So it’s time now to ask your Inner Shaman to help you acknowledge and own how the roles of Victim, Persecutor, Rescuer and Hungry Ghost operate in your life as a vicious circle and collectively make up the central villain of the piece, the Charlatan or False Self, who is guaranteed to cause you and others pain.

As a way out of this circle, we will invoke and embody the four archetypal presences that make up the medicine circle: the Dancing Warrior, the Dancing Fool, the Wise Elder and the Wounded Healer. These four medicine archetypes are powerful allies who collectively empower our central archetype, the nemesis of the Charlatan, the Inner Shaman. Their mutually enhancing skills will give you the resources to see how the vicious circle operates, escape from it and step into the medicine circle.

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