The Horse Boy

In the book The Horse Boy: The healing of my son and the documentary " The Horse Boy" describes the U.S. author Rupert Isaacson as his own on an autism form ( Pervasive Development Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified - PDD [ NOS] ) suffering son Rowan during a stay in Mongolia healed his opinion or his illness was at least substantially alleviated.

Prehistory

Rupert Isaacson is made professionally for Threatened Peoples, a, where shamanism is still common today. This fact motivated the author to take his sick son to a meeting with the San shamans, of which he a positive impact on his son hoped. Also Isaacson had made ​​at his home in Texas, the observation that his son always showed a more natural behavior after he got the opportunity to ride on the neighboring horse Betsy. Because of those two factors Isaacson decided to travel to a place where both many horses as shamans are found simultaneously and therefore they decided to Mongolia with his wife and son.

The journey

In Mongolia arrived, the Isaacson went into the woods, north of Moron to living there and reindeer breeding nomads. Most of this travel route they laid back riding and were accompanied here by a Mongol travel entrepreneur and his son. This boy was about the age of Rowan, the first time with this Mongolian boy became friends, to the astonishment of his father and began to play with him like a normal child.

The natural environment, as well as a ritual, which took place on a mountain near the capital Ulan Bator with nine shamans brought, according to data by Rupert Isaacson for his sick son a first improvement.

Ghoste, a shaman in the reindeer herders, then took after the first ceremony, a so-called " Shamanic Journey " in the absence of the Isaacson family and took place on the following night with the family, a healing ritual. The next morning the Isaacson went off again. Within the next 24 hours Rowan was suddenly use a toilet for the first time able to timely bowel movements, where he had otherwise eingekotet regularly. Within three days disappeared and the strong temper tantrums of the child, in which the parents had been suffering very much.

Reisedokumentierung

During this journey, the documentary " The Horse Boy" was also shot and directed by Michel Orion Scott and Rupert Isaacson.

Bibliographic indication

  • Rupert Isaacson: The Horse Boy: The healing of my son. Krüger, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8105-1068-6
  • American Original: R. Isaacson: The horse boy: a father 's quest to heal his son, Little, Brown and Company, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0316008235.
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