The Sacred Path

Mother’s day has just passed, and it always makes me think of holiday brunches with my mother at The Goose Egg Inn just west of Casper, Wyoming where she lived. The inn was named after the nearby Goose Egg Ranch featured in Owen Wister’s novel, The Virginian, which, sadly, was torn down in 1960. My mother made her transition in March of 2001 so we no longer brunch at the Goose Egg.

I was adopted at birth, so I know almost nothing about my birth parents or my ancestry except that I was told I am half Italian. My parents told me I was adopted as soon as I was old enough to understand, and for the longest time, I never thought of my birth parents or my ancestry. I had loving parents and a happy childhood.

After Jill Kuykendall talked about soul loss and soul retrieval during my first Visionseeker, I had the feeling that I needed to have a soul retrieval done. I didn’t quite know why at the time as I had never really had any of the classic symptoms, or any significant personal traumas during my life – at least as far as I could remember. Jill asks clients to answer some questions to let her know about themselves, and to let her know why they think they may have soul loss. My only answer to that question was to say I didn’t know, I just felt I did.

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For those of you who may not be familiar with shamanic healing, I thought I share one of my recent healing journeys. Healing journeys can take place remotely where the healer and the person requesting the healing are physically in different location, or where they are in the same location. Most of the journeys I have made so far have been remote.

Briefly, in shamanic healing there are typically several steps you perform. I have included a couple of resources at the end of this post that give a more complete explanation of the process.

• Power augmentation which involves a journey to the spirit worlds to find a spirit helper to come into relationship with the person, and provide power protection and support. This is necessary first step since healing cannot take place if the person is in a disempowered state.
• Next comes the diagnosis to determine the cause of the illness where the practitioner connects with his/her spirit guides to discover what is causing the illness.
• The practitioner will then journey into the body of the person – with their permission – to find the illness-causing intrusions.
• When the intrusions are found, the practitioner will then, with the help of his/her helping spirits, extract the intrusions.
• The final step is to restore the fabric of the person’s soul through soul retrieval.

It should be mentioned here, that it is not the shamanic practitioner that does the healing, but the spirit helpers and healers. The practitioner simply acts as a bridge or conduit to allow the healing to take place.

The request for help had come to me through a friend of the parents of a boy who had undergone an operation to fix a damaged eardrum, which totally amazes me that they can do something so delicate. Although Western medicine does not have all the answers, their accomplishments are almost staggering. After the operation the skin graph had taken, but the tissue surrounding the ear drum had begun to die and the surgeons were suggesting another operation to correct the problem. The parents however, were hoping to avoid putting their young son through another operation.

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