contemporary shamanic practitioner explains soul retrieval.
Shamans have themselves been called ‘wounded healers’, reflecting the fact that most practitioners have been through a healing crisis of their own as part of their initiation into shamanism. Their survival and self-healing is testament to their ability to guide the client through similar distress and to find an outcome which works.
In Western societies it would probably be unique to find someone who had not suffered trauma, injury, neglect or abuse, or to have given themselves away to others in a dance of power and office politics. We all become more fragmented every day. But while Western physicians treat the body and psychoanalysts deal with the mind, the shamans are taking care of the soul.
Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, and Love’s Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read how to join his sacred journeys to the shamans and healers of the Amazon.