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Example(s) of Soul Restoration Activity.
RESTORING A SOUL PIECE
2/23/05: This journey was taken in order to restore my client's soul piece.
My client and her daughter (who came for support) showed up at exactly 10 AM,
as previously arranged. They had small gifts for me and my wife...such lovely
people.
This was to be my first journey and soul restoration done "live", that
is, with the person present. I also was to speak aloud as the journey
progressed, and this was also a first. I felt that if my client could actually
hear what I was experiencing as I brought back her soul piece, as it actually
was happening, it would mean so much more to her. The question was: could I do
it?! Time would tell...
For the retrieval and restoration, I had set up an altar in my family room by
covering the coffee table with my thick cotton shirt with a huge eagle on it.
I use this shirt for my object consecrations.
Upon the shirt I placed my
prayer pipe...so much spirit energy there, and a must to be witness and helper!
I placed my smudge bowl, and power feather with which to fan both the sage and
sweet grass. In the center was the sacred candle, brand new so my client could
take it with her.
At the Cardinal points I placed four tiny Stone People who
had volunteered earlier in the day, there to form the boundaries of the Altar
Circle. They also left with her after the Restoration.
Finally, I had my
rattle there. It had requested new feathers be placed on it for this
ceremony...the other two that had been there for months had suddenly just
fallen off. All was therefore in the ready prior to my client's arrival.
Before the ceremony, we spoke for almost an hour about shamanism and the
principals of soul, soul loss, the three spirit worlds, helpers, etc. (These topics and more are covered at length in my Intro to Shamanism). We spoke
a bit of western religions and their perceived lack of emphasis both on the
importance of female power in the sacred balance.
We also went pver how to actually access
the Spirit Worlds in order to achieve spiritual independence. I also went into
great detail about exactly what I would be doing during the ceremony, and why.
Finally, we were ready.
We sat comfortably, and I had chosen a couch on which to eventually lie and
journey with my drum CD, while the others sat comfortably and watched, my
client from her chair and my client and my client's daughter on the other
couch.
I explained the concept of smudging, using the sage to repel negative
energies, and sweet grass to call in positive spirits. I told of the concept of
the fire: representing us living at our center, being our own personal flame,
made of both matter and energy, in touch with all space and time and the Great
Spirit.
I used a sacred feather to spread the smoke around, using a figure-8
pattern to represent infinity, and the circle of existence. I then took up the
rattle and opened up sacred space by rattling to the 7 directions.
I prayed aloud while rattling to each spirit element, and tied in my client's needs with
my traditional prayers. I explained how by rattling at the roughly the same
speed as the drumming, I prepare myself in advance for leaving my body.
When I
then laid down to journey, I explained how I was focusing on my single
request...to find and bring back the soul piece...by repeating it over and over
until I saw the beginning visions of the journey.
They weren't long in coming. I was suddenly in a dense and rich Forest, Trees
thick with brilliantly green canopies. I saw my Upper World guide, owl, fly
toward me from one of the trees.
He lifted me up to the top of the canopy of
trees. I spoke this aloud as it was happening, as I did with all the key
events I'm reporting here. The speaking did not interfere with the journey at
all, and this gives me great hope that I can do this with others as well.
As owl and I sat on top of a tree, awaiting the tunnel to the Upper
World to form in the sky, I noticed the clouds were orange. Suddenly, a light
green sphere appeared among them.
We flew toward this, the tunnel opening. Suddenly
my Power Animal, eagle, flew in from the right to join us. I think he just
wanted to come along for the "joy ride."
We soon exited the tunnel and were
out in deep space. The background thereof was a twilight blue versus its
traditional black. It was a stunning sight to see the stars hanging in this
blue space.
Very soon, off to the right, I spotted a small rock ledge floating in space.
It was very similar to the ledge upon which I had my first meeting in space
with Eagle Claw (Owl). I saw little my client standing there.
I didn't even
have to go back to the cave of lost souls, where I had had a brief visit with
her in a prior journey. Next to her was a small pool of water with a
mirror-like stillness.
We looked in together, and the reflection of my "little"
client was my "big" client, announcing the coming reunion! Then, grabbing hands,
she and I jumped into the pond, with owl and eagle coming along as well. The
pond quickly became an ocean, filling the scene from horizon to horizon.
The sky was a light blue with ill-defined white clouds...quite tranquil. The ocean
then became my shaman's mirror surface. Little client then came up to me
and hugged my leg, looked up and said, "thank you!" She then told me that she
loved me for helping her.
These actions brought me to tears. She then told me
that as she re-entered my client, she was going to be saying "I love you"
over and over, and asked that my client do the same. She then asked that
"big" client forgive her for leaving her as she did...which again brought me
to tears.
She then melded into the mirror, ready for the transfer. Owl and
eagle and I then zoomed back up to the green tunnel and returned to the forest.
Owl came up to me and point blank range and stared at me, as if pouring energy
into me. Eagle gathered me into the cozy space beneath his left wing. The
Journey was now over.
I kept trying to advance the CD to the "call back"
drumming but could not, so I brought myself back manually by tapping on the
player once the drumming was off. I was soon back in the family room, my face
still wet with tears.
My client asked how it felt upon returning, and although it is very hard to
describe the feeling of having been away and suddenly being back where you were
before, I did my best.
I said I felt a tranquility and peace that is unlike
anything you can experience in normal living. You are both one with and yet
totally apart from everything at the same time as you return. You feel as if
your body has stopped working, and is now just starting back up again.
I then took the mirror and held it over the sacred flame to warm the soul piece
up a bit, and to infuse the mirror with the energy of my client's eternal self, as
represented by the candle.
I then handed the mirror to my client and had her
hold it over her heart and then her Head, to let the soul piece come in through
the chakras in both places. She did this in silence, holding the mirror close.
I had my eyes shut and hands pressed together.
During the transfer, I saw the
soul piece jumping on her lawn, turn to me and then wave goodbye. I then saw
the blue shaman, spirit of my mirror, hovering over my client and moving his
hands down both sides of her body to help seal in the restoration.
My client then reported that she felt an immense calm, a relaxation, and that her hands
had become very heated holding the mirror. This was of course due to the
transfer of her soul piece's spirit energy back to her.
We talked more after
that, and I explained how different people react differently to such a reunion
with a soul piece. Some get flooded with emotions/issues long since missing or
dormant. Others feel little to nothing initially, and then perhaps just a
minor change. Her reaction of peacefulness boded very well for this
restoration.
I decided to do a follow-on journey for her concerning the possibility her twin
sister was trying to reach her from the spirit world. She also asked me to
check her aura, and I found a small dark area on the left side of her head.
She confirmed then that there was indeed still a problem there needing
resolution, the same problem that had led me to my first Journey for her. I
plan to check this out as well.
Some post-notes: The orange clouds: orange is the color of joy and wisdom and
creativity, according to Ted Andrew's The Healers Manual. "It stimulates
feeling of socialness. It is tied to our emotional health and to the
muscular/nervous systems. Individuals experiencing emotional paralysis are
helped by this color."
The blue of deep space seems to me to represent the
spirit of my mirror, the blue shaman, Utawa. This is made more certain by the
fact that the little soul was standing next to a mirror-likepond...a sure
sign she was ready and eager for the restoration to place via my mirror.
The pond temporarily becoming an ocean signified the rich fullness of female energy
involved here. The soul piece's exuberance and excitement over the impending
reunion was nothing short of astonishing and emotionally overwhelming. Very
gratifying.
The fact the my client felt so much peace and relaxation after the
reunion showed that indeed her childlike qualities had returned to her with her
soul piece. In fact, she reported to me that next day that she was still in a
very relaxed and unhurried mode.
Finally, I wish all shamans could deal with
such opening-minded and sweet persons. My client and her daughter were so
patient, willing and helpful, and it made the ceremony flow so much better. :)
Finally, my client had suggested before they left that they take my VCR tape
by Albert Villoldo, who has had extensive dealings with Andes shamans, is a
shaman himself, and who does a super job explaining the spirit energy body, and
how imprints and entities cause illness.
She wrote to me the next day to say
how much she really enjoyed it...she's gonna watch it again! She finally knows
the truth.
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