Mending the Past, Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval

The author of this book is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who has been studying the healing practices of Amazon and Inca shamans for 25 years. Here he charts how it is possible to engage in intentional self-healing on a journey of recovering the soul and finding one's destiny. He presents a model of the soul as four-chambered, like the heart, and draws on analogues of the hero's quest. The main question that arises from this kind of self-help book is whether real results can be achieved without direct supervision - but the book provides a reflective tool and the powerful message that we can only heal ourselves by serving the sacred.