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The Soul Retrieval Journey: Seeing in the Dark
Enter Shamanism's Secret World of Insight, Wisdom, and HealingOver 40,000 years ago, the first shamans ventured into the spirit realms in search of wisdom and healing. What they found, teaches Sandra Ingerman, was a secret world of teachers, animal spirits, and the soul fragments of those suffering in the ordinary world. The Soul Retrieval Journey reveals a stunning insight understood by those first shamans: that when lost parts of the soul return to the body, the mind, body, and spirit heal. On The Soul Retrieval Journey you will learn: Shamanic perspectives on illnessSoul retrieval--a step-by-step descriptionHow to use rituals, song, dance, sacred space, prayer, and talismans to welcome your soul home; and much more
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First published July 1, 1997
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Sandra Ingerman
52 books304 followers Sandra Ingerman, MA, is the author of 8 books, 7 CD programs and the creator of Transmutation App. She is a world renowned teacher of shamanism and has been teaching for over 30 years.
She teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.
Sandra is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change for the planet.
Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management. She was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine. Sandra was chosen as one of the Top Ten Spiritual Leaders of 2013 in the November/December Issue of Spirituality and Health.
She teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.
Sandra is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change for the planet.
Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management. She was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine. Sandra was chosen as one of the Top Ten Spiritual Leaders of 2013 in the November/December Issue of Spirituality and Health.
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April 20, 2020
Difficulty Level: Beginner
No background in shamanism necessary.
Pros:
- It's a good intro to soul retrieval.
It tells you what soul retrieval is, some ways to prevent doing damage to your energy body, and some ways to heal your energetic wounds a little bit on your own.
Cons:
- No ebook or paperback version; this only comes as an audiobook.
When I listen to an audiobook, I don't remember the information for very long, and it's too hard to find the information because you can't search for keywords or bookmark pages, like you would in an ebook.
- It doesn't tell you how to perform a soul retrieval.
I understand that soul retrieval is an advanced magickal technique that beginners wouldn't be practicing, but for a book on soul retrieval I would expect more exercises for preparing yourself for performing soul retrieval at a later point.
The reason the book doesn't contain soul retrieval rituals is probably because it's an audiobook. When you see rituals in ebooks or paperback books, they're full of things to read aloud (ex. chants) when performing the ritual.
- Ingerman has a negative view of psychic vampirism.
She posits that shamen would consider psychic vampirism invasive; but then she recommends what I would argue is a much more invasive 'healing' practice in response, in order to snatch back your life-force energy. She could just put up psychic shields instead, and leave vampires alone.
Personal Note: Her voice sounds like Kamala Harris, so, to make the book more interesting, pretend Kamala Harris is narrating it.
No background in shamanism necessary.
Pros:
- It's a good intro to soul retrieval.
It tells you what soul retrieval is, some ways to prevent doing damage to your energy body, and some ways to heal your energetic wounds a little bit on your own.
Cons:
- No ebook or paperback version; this only comes as an audiobook.
When I listen to an audiobook, I don't remember the information for very long, and it's too hard to find the information because you can't search for keywords or bookmark pages, like you would in an ebook.
- It doesn't tell you how to perform a soul retrieval.
I understand that soul retrieval is an advanced magickal technique that beginners wouldn't be practicing, but for a book on soul retrieval I would expect more exercises for preparing yourself for performing soul retrieval at a later point.
The reason the book doesn't contain soul retrieval rituals is probably because it's an audiobook. When you see rituals in ebooks or paperback books, they're full of things to read aloud (ex. chants) when performing the ritual.
- Ingerman has a negative view of psychic vampirism.
She posits that shamen would consider psychic vampirism invasive; but then she recommends what I would argue is a much more invasive 'healing' practice in response, in order to snatch back your life-force energy. She could just put up psychic shields instead, and leave vampires alone.
Personal Note: Her voice sounds like Kamala Harris, so, to make the book more interesting, pretend Kamala Harris is narrating it.
August 1, 2024
This is less of an in-depth primer about soul retrieval and more of an introduction in a fairly conversational format. It covers reasons you might have to do a soul retrieval, a few different varieties of soul retrieval, and the general process the author goes through to perform a soul retrieval. I think it would help to have learned a bit about shamanism before reading this, because it doesn't go into a great deal of detail about some of the foundational concepts like the different worlds. This is perhaps better as a second book about shamanism that tells you a bit more about how to actually do some of the things and why you would do one instead of the other. It's not long or deeply entailed, but I learned some good things from it just the same.
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October 9, 2020A simple and comprehensive introduction to the work of shamanic healing. Finished in an afternoon. Wish I had read her works earlier - definitely answered a lot of questions I didn’t know who/ how to ask. Now I have a better picture of how shamans and their clients navigate the invisible realm, shamanic views on illnesses and death, role of power animals etc.
November 12, 2019
Super informative, helpful, ahd interesting.
February 16, 2021
Wonderful look at using soul retrieval in shamanic work. Set up in a way that makes sense and now I'm more interested in reading more from Sandra.
October 30, 2025
4.25 ⭐️'s
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October 6, 2016
This was a very interesting read about Shamanic practice. It relies heavily on sharing a belief in Shamanism and its practices and will offer little in the way of assurance for skeptics. I found myself drawing parallels in the message being given and the message of other ideologies.
April 16, 2014
Brilliant for help with my bardic study /|\
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June 6, 2016
Really good and specific shamanic work
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