Shamanic Energy Healing And The Soul
The soul has preoccupied humans for centuries. Our oldest ancestors believed the soul resided in the heart. Later, it was believed the soul was housed in other organs, including the liver and the spleen.
Eventually, when we could not find the soul in any of these locations, we decided that it must reside in the head, inside the brain. Yet the ancient Egyptians had little use for the brain: while they carefully mummified all of a deceased person’s organs, they drained the brain by inserting straws through the nasal passage into the cranial cavity and tossed the goo away.
Today, most scientists would argue that what we call consciousness is a by-product of the brain—that is, that the neural circuitry in the brain creates consciousness. Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of DNA, states in his book The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul that everything to be learned about the soul can be found by studying the workings of the human brain.
Shamanic healers are more prone to believe the reverse, that the brain is a by-product of consciousness That consciousness itself relies on complex and evolutionary mechanisms to create the neural circuitry that allows us to become aware of ourselves and the cosmos.
The soul is the finest aspect of human nature, that part of us that finds beauty in the most unlikely of places. That part of us that brings truth to every encounter. It is the part of us that no longer seeks happiness, but infuses every moment with joy. It is the part of us that doesn’t take things personally and practices kindness.
The shamans believe that the soul is all that is beautiful and noble about being human. The soul has the possibility of becoming eternal because beauty and nobility are eternal. But to experience this, we first have to heal the trauma and pain from our past and become enlightened. The greatest gift we can give ourselves is to recover essential aspects of ourselves that were lost due to pain, trauma, and stress.
In metaphorical terms, this is the part of ourselves that never left the Garden of Eden, that still walks with beauty in the world, connected to the rivers and the trees, and that speaks with Spirit easily and freely.
Do you have the fire to awaken and live your soul song?
Hillary Metz, Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner. Sedona, Arizona. hillary.metz@gmail.com. [ 310 - 990 - 3501 ]. In-person or remote.
