SHAMANISM & THE DRUM · LESSON 10 OF 12 · 12 MIN
Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval
The free soul and the body soul, sickness as a soul gone missing, the fright-illness susto of Latin America, the shaman's journey to fetch a soul back, and the modern practice Sandra Ingerman built from it — with the cautions it needs.
If the shaman's journey is a journey of the soul, then a great deal depends on what a soul is — and in most of the cultures in this track a person has more than one. That idea explains what shamans were most often asked to do: not to foretell, but to heal, by going to fetch back something that had gone.