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Summary: A must read
Review: This is a compelling book. It tells about soul retrieval, finding the lost essence of a person. It is a great tool. In telling about case histories of her clients it opens the door for others to realize that there is a part of themselves that is lost.
It is not an instruction manual. It gives ordinary people a way to visualize what it is like for the practiciner making the journey and a way to start connecting to the parts of themselves ready to return.
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Summary: Good overview but ...
Review: This is a very good overview on the general/traditional technique of Soul Retrieval. There are a bit too many examples of client studies and perhaps not enough analysis of the spiritual things which occurred. What is most disturbing is that in the preface the author says something completely contradictory to the rest of the book regarding how to restore the soul part once retrieved.Perhaps this book demonstrates most clearly the current tension and change in the area of soul retrieval. In general, the formal patterns of shamanism, including the use of drumming being necessary to achieve trance states, are under question and being challenged. Many people today are able to enter shamanic states of consciousness through concentration alone. As more people become capable of shamanic techniques the older assumptions will be modified and fall away. This book is a good representative of the more formal ideas about soul retrieval how they were understood perhaps ten or twenty years ago. If you read this just remember that it is your awareness and attention that are the real keys to opening to shamanic experiences, not being constrained to specific static techniques.
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Summary: Essential Shamanic Techniques
Review: This work describes the causes of soul loss and the techniques for finding and reintegrating those lost pieces of soul back into the whole. These are techniques that every Shaman should know, right along with power animal retrieval and intrusion removal. They are necessary for spiritual healing of many individuals. This book is written by one of the authorities in the field of core shamanism, and *the* authority on soul retrieval. I highly recommend it.
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