You may locate a split-off part of yourself that refused to leave your former home, or your former partner, or your previous job.

A lost aspect of ourselves may have remained “stuck on” a previous home or partner, just as the departed sometimes remain attached to their former environments.

way: “The shaman doesn’t say, ‘You’re a mess. I will fix you and make you what you were before,’ but rather, ‘You’re a mess, a palette full of odd, chaotic blobs of color lost from their containers; let us discover the right way to combine those colors into art, rather than trying to push them back into their tidy tubes.’

When soul goes missing, we not only lose energy but also lose memory, identity, personal gifts and skills, and the ability to feel deeply and to choose and act from the heart.

she learned what indigenous dreamers know: you can become an eagle.

know that we are all connected to the world

shamans

My Merlin travels with a magic orchard that goes with him everywhere. If you are very lucky, he may offer you an apple, either silver or gold. When you bite down, you’ll taste not only the sweet juice of the apple but also the heady power of a story — a story that will inspire you and give juice to your life — slipping into you.

The story was used as a parable for the journey of the soul in the ancient Mystery traditions, and the central message may be that, of all the trials in the soul’s journey, coming home is the hardest.