Mysticism – Soul Retrieval
One of the services shamans provide to people is Soul Retrieval. Unlike what you read in books and on the net, it’s actually a very simple process. Many times the person seeking the service doesn’t even need to ask for it, Soul Retrieval IS what shamans do. Anyone can be trained to do energy work. Not so with Soul Retrieval.
Why is this? Because a shaman, in order to help you, has to have accomplished their own Soul Retrieval beforehand. This is why I am so against people who hang out a shingle after a 3 week Shamanic Course and call themselves a shaman. Rubbish. People find what they go looking for, but in the case of Soul Retrieval, please do your homework and find a shaman who can actually do the work.
If they have to go through huge ceremonies and huge rituals, be worried and don’t part with your money. We’ve all seen those TV documentaries where the shaman goes through the boogaloo gyrations and preparations in order to go fetch someone’s spirit. What they don’t tell you is the true shaman can do it without all the trappings. No true spirit helpers I know would say, “Well you don’t have your cat fur cloak on so I can’t work with you”. Shamans can wear blue jeans and a t-shirt and do a Soul Retrieval for you, if necessary. Fancy frosting is great promo, but it doesn’t impress the spirits. Nor does it have the ability to call the soul or soul parts home. The fancy dances and strange ceremonies are tools. Only that. Humans have this uncanny need to make things much more elaborate and involved than they need to do.
I have the most wonderful prop I use in my work, if people need to see such. It’s a small Toucan bird made of pottery. It’s a whistle, an ocarina. I’ve seen them advertised as