A set of video images from Bhutan of a spiritual healer, Jakri.
Format: DV 720×576
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A Jakri is a practitioner with beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world.
Its is believed that Jakris are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Jakris are said to treat ailments by mending the soul. Alleviating traumas affecting the soul restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness.
The Jakri also enters supernatural dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Jakris may visit other worlds to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements.
The Jakri operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance results in the elimination of the ailment.
Jakris belong to many ethnic Nepali communities in Bhutan.