Durek convened dozens of members of the “Litty Committee,” his name for his “tribe”(because they are “lit”), in an event space atop the Mondrian. Or take a different Saturday morning, one earlier that summer in Manhattan-back in the “before times,” when it was still safe to gather in groups. The woman next to her moaned and sobbed so loudly that it was reminiscent of the Katz’s Deli scene in When Harry Met Sally. The woman to her left coughed vigorously as Shaman Durek instructed them to release all of the pain from the actions of their mothers and fathers that had been building up in their bodies. “You have to be kidding me!” a different crying woman screamed. “Of course you do,” the shaman responded, throwing his head back in a laugh. He congratulated them on “hacking their bodies,” sang them “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, and instructed the spirits to send magnetic energy into their spines. This was the Shaman Durek show-he was loving it, and the audience was rapt. Breaking into song, speaking in tongues, sometimes touching the women, he became a spiritual emissary/janitor, releasing negative energy, minimizing pain, and healing trauma. One afternoon in the summer of 2019, for instance, on the sunny patio of a little bungalow beneath the Holly-wood sign, he brought six women to tears over the course of 17 minutes. What Durek does with his power is itself an art. What impresses me is what you do with your power.” Later, in another conversation reflecting on the same idea, he added, “Celebrities are just people who have jobs, who have art abilities, who have singing abilities, and they just happen to be known. “People like to say that I’m the shaman to the stars. Paltrow, queen of the commodified spiritual realm, whom Durek calls his “soul sister,” has called him her “light in shining armor.” But that, he says, doesn’t matter much to him. Shaman Durek’s profile has gotten a boost courtesy of a number of famous clients, from Chris Pine to Selma Blair to Rosario Dawson. Around half of the country has tried some form of alternative medicine, and about three fifths say they believe in something like spiritual energy or astrology, according to Pew Research Center. Modern shamanism, which gained popularity in the West during the counterculture of the 1960s, has rejiggered itself for the woo-woo 2000s, as Birkenstocks and God have given way to Goop (and Birkenstocks), and anyone can get famous by oversharing. I’ve had women and men-can’t say names, but I can tell you, big names-who have come in and been like, ‘I’ve always dreamed about having sex with a shaman.’ I’m like, ‘That’s not why I’m here for you.’ ” “I’ve had celebrities come to sessions with me, pull off all of their clothes, and ask me to fuck them. I’ve had women who come in who-one woman had vulva inflammation.” Clients proposition him. There are things that I might have to take off to show me their genitals. “You have to speak to their sexual glands…. So if my finger’s here, that could be misinterpreted.” There is a technique in shamanism, he explains, to help women when they want to have babies, or men who are impotent, or women who can’t have orgasms. “If I need to clean out your lymphatic system, it’s near your groin area. The way he talks sounds like a Valley Girl on ayahuasca. Durek’s head is smooth and his eyes are almost feline. He was wearing loose linen pants and a black shirt. “So the reason why it’s in there is because we do talk about some sexual things,” he said a few months later, in the same hotel room over Park Avenue. The waiver also gives Durek the right to terminate a session if you try to kiss or touch him fondle yourself get undressed or try undressing him attempt to have intercourse or oral sex with him or sex with yourself or threaten him in any way. This includes but is not limited to physical touching, energy healing, releasing of toxins…, energetic entry or physical touching of my genitals or electric shock treatment in the spine. You expressly consent to any and all treatments, methods, and techniques necessary that Shaman Durek may perform in your session as determined by him.
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