Love love love this post! As a shamanic practitioner, I truly appreciate it. Specifically, the attention you draw to the way our overpsychologized minds might try to make sense of “soul loss”. In my tradition (which is also heavily influenced by Sandra’s work) we often liken soul loss to soul preservation, to put the client at ease… a part of you needed to go off and be kept safe / allow for growth of the Self, and now it’s ready to come home. Also, in the Celtic tradition, we believe the body loves inside the soul, that the soul is quite large in fact. I often use this analogy to say to people… a part of us can go live way off in the far reaches of ourselves, aka be kept safe in the very Soul of the World, so we are never really without it, just distanced from it and now, needing to call it home and reintegrate it. Thanks again!
Love love love this post! As a shamanic practitioner, I truly appreciate it. Specifically, the attention you draw to the way our overpsychologized minds might try to make sense of “soul loss”. In my tradition (which is also heavily influenced by Sandra’s work) we often liken soul loss to soul preservation, to put the client at ease… a part of you needed to go off and be kept safe / allow for growth of the Self, and now it’s ready to come home. Also, in the Celtic tradition, we believe the body loves inside the soul, that the soul is quite large in fact. I often use this analogy to say to people… a part of us can go live way off in the far reaches of ourselves, aka be kept safe in the very Soul of the World, so we are never really without it, just distanced from it and now, needing to call it home and reintegrate it. Thanks again!
Beautiful! I love this language and the weaving in of the Celtic tradition here, too. Thank you for sharing!