This is a brief synopsis of a healing ceremony I experienced with an amazing woman whom I’ll call Beth. I’m sharing it with you because it’s a powerful example of the miracle of Soul Retrieval.
Beth has a good life. A loving husband, children, grandchildren, and long time friends. She owns her own business and is well liked and respected. About 9 months ago, Beth lost her father. They were very close, and she loved him dearly. As the days and weeks went by after his death, Beth began feeling odd. She was in mourning, of course, but something else was happening.
Beth began to notice that she was unable to feel and or find herself. Where was she? Her ability to laugh had disappeared, and she was unable to feel any joy at all. All Beth could experience was sadness and grief. Agitated, Beth began staying home much of the time, becoming, as she told me, a recluse. Sleep became her good friend.
A psychiatrist prescribed medications which did not help, and eventually Beth ended up spending almost two weeks in a psychiatric hospital. When I met her, she was depressed and discouraged. Nothing was helping or changing, and she couldn’t bear living like that any longer. Something had to shift. Beth had an appointment for electro-shock therapy scheduled for the next week; she said the doctors didn’t know what else to do for her.
The intention for Beth’s healing was, “My soul is back, and I am whole and myself again.”
It’s important that our healing intention be our personal miracle. Intention acts like a key, opening the layers of the soul that need attending so we can eventually realize and live our intention.
Beth lay upon my healing table, and I channeled the Light of Love.
It moved from my center, down my arms, out my hands and into and through the bottoms of her feet. The Light filled and purified her body and soul in preparation for the soul retrieval. I sat there a long while, and when the time was right, my Teacher and power animal took me on a journey on Beth’s behalf.
We went to the Death Gateway.
I first encountered the Death Gateway in 1997 during my shamanic initiation. In my experience, each of us, as Spirit, moves through this gateway upon our physical death. It’s a grey tunnel that eventually merges with a tunnel of Light, which, after a while, becomes a great expansiveness of Light. I’ve been taken to the Death Gateway many times for clients.
Here is the story that unfolded:
When Beth’s father died, his spirit left his body and moved through the Death Gateway into the Light. During that event, Beth was in a state of trauma and grief, and a part of her soul followed him into the gateway. Beth really wanted to be with her father, and at first, she (the soul part) desperately tried to catch up with him and accompany him into the Light. She was unable to pass into the Light tunnel because it wasn’t her time to leave the physical reality. That's when Beth’s soul part became frantic; she couldn’t unite with her father and didn’t know how to get out of the Death Gateway. Upon realizing that she was stuck, fell into resignation and deep despair.
When we experience trauma in our lives, in order to emotionally survive the situation, a part or parts of our soul dissociate and end up in what many call “non-ordinary” reality. Soul parts go to a limitless number of places in the spiritual realms, sometimes areas of mass consciousness, such as the Death Gateway, and other times to realms that are based on the unique make-up of the individual person. Soul parts remain stuck in time and live the experience that created the need for their dissociation, no matter how long ago in linear time it happened.
It’s an illusion to think our dissociated and detached parts are separate from us. They are us, and we, on the physical, become a reflection of the emotional state of our soul parts. This often leads to physical, mental, emotional and/or energetic illness and is why most people are unable to live in present time and heal.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a classic medical diagnosis of soul loss. Medications might mask symptoms, yet it’s the restoration of soul parts that allow us to free ourselves from the past and live our lives more fully in the moment.
The agitation and despair that Beth’s lost soul part experienced dramatically affected her emotional state, and she fell into a deep depression. As a result of this new trauma, another core part of Beth’s soul dissociated, and I was brought to the Land, another mass consciousness realm, to retrieve it.
By the end of the ceremony, Beth’s two soul parts were recovered, bathed in my healing waters (in the journey) and restored to her soul. My Teacher said that within three days she would notice a difference in her emotional experience. I continued immersing Beth's body in the Light of Love, and when the healing was complete, her entire soulscape (energy field) was glowing.
As of this writing, I haven’t spoken with Beth, although I did spend time with her friend the other night who had recently been at a gathering with Beth. She told me that Beth was chatty and enjoying herself.
Dissociation and soul loss are themes for the majority of my clients, whether they’re physically ill or emotionally suffering. Over the past twenty years I’ve seen shamanic soul retrieval greatly enhance the lives of countless people, myself included. We must all come home to ourselves. How else can we live in the present moment? The Here and Now. – no longer triggered and living out of past traumas and wounds. Free.
Welcome Home Beth.
6 comments
Annie, I met you at Alan Cooper’s house before you went south for the month…I asked you for a healing session, and you said you would be able to schedule me after the middle of March…..Is this still true?…..I live here in MS, but I understand I would need to come up to Oregon? …….unless perhaps we have a few others down here wanting healings…..you’re welcome to stay at my house, and I also know you have friends here…..would it be possible to give me a date?……I really enjoyed that evening…..TOTALLY could relate to your welcome Home Beth story above…..it’s beautiful and potent…..thanx for the needed work you are doing……..warmly, clara
Beautiful. That’s all I can say at this time because that is pretty fully descriptive. Yes, BEAUTIFUL. Thank you Annie for all you do! Paulita
Amazing.
So brilliant that you can know how to heal with the unseen. Annie you are a Gem.
annie, i love you for sharing your powerful stories with us. inspiring!! that’s what/who you are to me. i love you. -w
It is always rare to find educated persons on this subject issue, but you seem like you know what you are posting on! Thanks a lot.
Hi Annie,
I love your stories. I remember when Indi was about to leave, we talked and you told me stories and it helped so much. No advice, no “shoulds” or “need to”, just sharing. At the end of the conversation I knew Indi was on her way to the next place (I knew she was on her way before that, but I needed a hand).
I believe that is how we learn best.
I am ready for a healing– I think I have been for a while, now. I hesitate because I want to do it in person and we live far away! Let’s talk soon.