The shamanic practice known as soul retrieval is perhaps the most
important level of healing in spirit medicine because once the
spiritual-energetic nature of an illness-causing intrusion has been
addressed, the cause is still unresolved, namely the tears in the fabric
of the sufferer's soul cluster that allowed the intrusions to enter in
the first place. As long as these empty spaces remain unfilled, there is no guarantee
that the intrusions will not reinvade given an opportunity to do so
because those holes are like open invitations.
All of us, in every culture everywhere, had ancestors who were hunters
if we go back far enough. In doing soul retrieval work, the shamanic
practitioner teams up with the spirits who assist them, then they go to
work together, tracking the lost soul parts much like hunters.
And
this is where spirit medicine has something important to offer the
psychotherapeutic paradigm. Psychologists and psychiatrists know about
dissociation, but where do the dissociated parts go? In doing soul
retrieval, the shamanic healer and their spiritual assistants locate the
lost soul parts in the Lower, Middle, or Upper Worlds of the Spirit
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