Il recupero dell'anima. Tecniche sciamaniche per risanare il sé frammentato

Beautifully written. Soul retrieval, mending and healing. Lots of first-hand accounts and introduction to some of the shamanistic practices. Q: The basic premise is that whenever we experience trauma, a part of our vital essence separates from us in order to survive the experience by escaping the full i Leggi tutto

I read this book when I was 21 years old. It helped me with the process of recovering from an extremely traumatic childhood. My natural way of looking at the world is animistic, and this book focuses on animistic means of finding and recovering fragmented bits of self that have been splintered off b Leggi tutto

I have a BA in Psychology and am going back for my MSC. I've read The Body Keeps The Score, tons of books on transpersonal/depth psychologies and am well versed in shamanic lore and I found this book to be fascinating! Quick paced and free from rhetoric, written by someone with academic degrees in p Leggi tutto

This included a basic introduction to shamanism and a lot of first-hand accounts of soul retrieval practices. The belief is that people lose pieces of their souls through traumas and similar experiences and need to reclaim these soul parts.

I'm quite torn in regards to how I feel about this book. On one hand, "Soul Retrieval" is full of awful ideologies. On the other hand, the very few good parts are worthy of discussing or practicing. The Good: This book is very easy to comprehend. Ingerman includes breathing exercising and meditation Leggi tutto

Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge introduced me to shamanism and non-dual philosophic systems 35 years ago. I've also been interested in the phenomenon of out of body experiences triggered by trauma or near death experiences, which seem to suggest that consciousn Leggi tutto

This is a beautifully written book by Sandra Ingerman on the shamanic practice of soul retrieval. Sandra is a clinical psychologist who trained under Michael Harner in his foundation of shamanic studies. She has gone on to be a leading light in this particular practice, developing her own training i Leggi tutto

I had a mixed reaction to this book. It's an interesting topic, and I agree with the author that contemporary society encourages fragmentation of the self, which needs to be reintegrated for true health/vitality. The shamanic perspective of soul retrieval is an interesting approach to healing, and I Leggi tutto