Shamanic soul retrieval psychotherapy style

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Mending the Fragmented Self With Soul Retrieval

 by Dr Keith Scott-Mumby

I turn now to the shaman model of healing called soul retrieval, not merely as a curiosity, but in considerable awe and respect for a tradition as old as consciousness and twice as old as other healing arts! It has worked so well for so long among so many peoples, it is in every sense a Super Healing technique.

The fact that most of the proponents are supposedly less sophisticated than ourselves does them less than justice and probably turns our blind eye of prejudice away from what may ultimately prove to be the best of all wellness approaches.

Journey with me and see if you agree [KSM].

Soul Retrieval

Quite simply, there is no real health without true being. We are not a body; therefore to treat only the body is to miss much of the impact and purpose of the healing arts. In the words of Sandra Ingerman, US career-shaman, “For shamans the world over, illness has always been seen as a spiritual predicament”. (Ingerman S, Soul Retrieval, Harper San Francisco, 1991, p. 17). Her lovely book is subtitled “Mending the Fragmented Self”, which says it all. Mechanistic reductionist science has little currency here.

One of the most succinct models for dis-ease in this domain is the “loss of soul” or soul parts. You might prefer the term “life particles” to soul parts. The concept is that of parts of the self being torn off and getting lost. This would typically take place at times of extreme suffering. Today we often find soul loss is a result of such traumas as incest, abuse, loss of a loved one, surgery, accident, illness, miscarriage, abortion, bad drug trips and military combat. Even witnessing traumatic events, such as a crime scene or bloody death, can cause loss through shock and horror. Coma, of course, is the most extreme form of soul loss.

People will often describe feeling as if they are incomplete after the calamity; “something died inside me”, “I don’t feel myself anymore”, “I left my heart behind”, “I don’t feel all here”, “I’m aching and empty inside” and so on. The hippies used to have an expression “feeling untogether”, which is a rather poetic way of putting it, though in their case it was often self-inflicted, due to recreational drug abuse.

What seems to happen is the patient loses some of their resources when the part or parts flee. Certain skills, qualities or other desirable character traits are no longer there and so he or she cannot act out these aspects of the self. The same is true in reverse, of course, and the skills and knowledge present at the moment of schism return remarkably when the retrieval procedure is completed. But the break is very real and the homecoming particles sometimes have to be brought up to date regarding what has happened to the patient in the intervening years in order to fully integrate. Continue reading →

Knowledge As A Trade Commodity

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I first published this piece in Dec 1993. That was the last time my first wife and I could have described ourselves as lovers. The family gathering at Christmas that year my youngest son always calls our “Shooting Party”, after a wonderful movie with James Stewart, depicting the Edwardian culture literally falling apart in the last months before WWI changed Britain and Europe forever!

Anyway, in this piece I wrote about the rise of the “Information Age”. See for yourself how close I got with some of these concepts (many from Peter Drucker, as you will see).

I was a little bit off with “Educational Entrepreneur”; these days we would probably say Infopreneur. 

Did I foresee the rise of social networking in the section of “The Human Element”? I think so 🙂

Drucker was spot on in talking about New Social Classes. He described perfectly the high wage and social status of those who live and work in Silicon Valley. 

I called my writings then Applied Philosophics™. I still have the trademark for that name in the UK. 

The promised knowledge and skills will be coming to you, via this website…

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Harvesting Good – The Deeper Philosophy

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I have a deep philosophical question for you:

If you want to feel happier should you:

  • Put up with the experiences you are having and change how you feel about them?
  • Or should you change the experiences into something better, so there is an external reason to feel happier?

Should a man without money persuade himself it is OK to be poor? Or should he go out and get enough money to feel glad about life? [We are brainwashed in our Christian culture to view poverty as desirable so maybe this isn’t an ideal example.]

What about a man who is overweight, unfit and unable to enjoy zestful pursuits? Should he “put up with” this state of health and feel good about himself? Die young as a result? Or start a programme and re-capture some his lost vitality?

Well the answer, I’m sure, is aspects of both. You don’t need to let yourself feel bad about what you’ve got. But the second choice has always seemed more appealing to me. You must try to better the environment you are in. I consider it a law of good living. To accept what you’ve got is a kind of defeatism, a limitation. It is a circumscribed or Conditional Happiness.

It’s perfectly fine to feel good about where you are; it need not stifle the ambition to do better! By all means enjoy the present; but don’t forget to carve yourself a bright and beautiful future! Actually, happiness is found in both aspects of this maxim. Continue reading →

Let me share my failure strategy!

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Keith Scott-Mumby

The NLP people have developed the concept of an internal strategy. It’s a kind of meta-program, a thought sequence, which runs on automatic, once triggered.

It’s often easy to see other peoples’ internal strategies but it’s not nearly as simple to see your own. We all have failure strategies, by the way. You need to figure out what your own is. Maybe this will help give you insight.

My Own Failure Strategy

I’ve figured out my personal “failure strategy”. It runs often.  As I said, you might learn something if I share it with you; it goes something like this:

  1. I think what I want, decide I am going to get it and tell myself that I am.
  2. I immediately think of all the problems that stand in the way of getting what I want, knowing that if I cannot solve them, I will fail.
  3. As I start to feel unsure about overcoming all obstacles in a timely manner, I start to feel unsure of myself. I begin to question my own judgment.
  4. The uncertainty and complexity of solutions and the probability of failure starts to grow.
  5. I make fitful efforts at thinking about the goal, pretending I’m still striving for it, talking to others as if I am, and I carry out desultory actions to achieve it.
  6. I soon start to modify the goal either changing it into something more “realistic”, or start adding time modifiers that would soon kick it out of the game.
  7. I know in my heart of hearts that I’m not hitting the bar for the effort required to succeed. Instead I get “tired”, disinterested, de-motivated and drink to forget the issues.
  8. I remember my spectacular successes of the past and use that to congratulate myself for being brilliant.
  9. I do not associate (NLP term) with the effort, integrity, focus, pleasure, ingenuity and continuous activity required that was the real reason for my successes, not my “brilliance”.
  10. I constantly allow myself to get distracted with off-target diversions, all seeming necessary.
  11. I sooner or later find a new goal that is exciting and inspiring and get involved with that.
  12. I allow this to displace the original goal, which I discard or re-classify as “sometime-maybe”.
  13. Eventually I lose sight of the goal and am not acting on it, without even admitting that I have quit! Continue reading →

Has Happiness Become a Science or is it a Question of Luck?

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by Gabriella Kortsch

Happiness and Our Bodies

Are we born more prone to be happy or sad? Is it a question of genes? Does our environment make a difference? Our socio-economic status, the level of our intelligence, our emotional satisfaction, or the state of our physical health? Or could it be that we can decide how happy or unhappy we are?

According to recent psychological research, people who show the highest results in tests of happiness, optimism and contentment

  • Develop about 50% more anti-bodies than average when subjected to flu vaccines
  • Have a reduced risk of cardio-vascular disease
  • Show a lower index of pulmonary disease
  • Show a lower incidence of diabetes
  • Have less hypertension than individuals who are less content
  • And as indicated in a 2004 study carried out in Holland, further reduced their risk of death by 50% over a period of nine years

Clearly, the neurochemistry of happiness, in other words, how the brain looks and reacts if you are happy, has a great deal to say about your physical health and even the length of your life. Continue reading →

Pushing Your Faith To The Limit

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FAITH IS THE STUFF OF THE IMPOSSIBLE. Whatever limits we’ve placed on ourselves are usually obliterated by faith. Faith sets sail from the coastland named “fear,” nipping at the waves of courage–taking on its precious water as crucial ballast–as it goes. It takes on brightly the chiding joys of new frontiers.

With each temptation to say, “No,” faith says an emphatic, “Yes!”

And with each frontier taken on and conquered this faith stretches us further in an interminable confidence that further casts into the unknown any notional boundaries or limits.

Pushing our faith is about identifying those boundaries, in wisdom, that we are destined to push past. We, by our very nature, severely underestimate our capacities as far as faith is concerned.

What is it in life that’s currently holding you back? Continue reading →