By Jaime O’Neill

Barack Obama turns 49 Wednesday. That makes him a Leo, for those who give much thought to astrology. I’m a Leo too, though I think astrology is nonsense, except when I read something like this: “Leo man could embody everything that a man aspires to be — courage, controlled aggression, wit, humor, instant sex appeal and charm!”

The uncanny accuracy of that description shakes my skepticism about astrology. Though it may lack the authority of science, there surely must be something to reading the stars if the practice can produce such a definitively perceptive portrait of those of us who share this birth sign. Even my mom, who knew me better than anyone, couldn’t have drafted a more insightful sketch of my inherent attributes.

And the nation is fortunate to have a guy who seems to be a lot like me handling our nation’s affairs. We Leos have our faults, of course, most of which are related to the difficulties we face in trying to remain humble. Some astrologers even see us as vain and somewhat prideful, which is an understandable flaw in people as favored as we’ve been.

But even as terrific as Leos tend to be, there are those who share my sign who fail to make the best of the gifts bestowed on them by the timing of their births. The first Leo to become POTUS was Benjamin Harrison, and he wasn’t a great advertisement for the sign. In fact, his presidency was so undistinguished that the nation wasn’t ready to risk another Leo for 40 years, when we elected Herbert Hoover. And we all know how well that worked out. Thanks to Hoover, we refrained from electing another Leo until Bill Clinton took office in 1993. Clinton was able to capitalize big time on those distinctive Leo qualities — charm, sex appeal, wit — and now, less than a decade later, another Leo is in charge.

Leos like Bill, Barack and I are known to astrology as men who “are born to lead and guide others.” We’re the kind of guys who “can guide, direct, communicate and teach other people in an aristocratic manner.”

Source: http://articles.latimes.com

Recently reported by americanchronicle.com, a new Psychic Prediction of a terror attack prediction has been made by dream psychic Chris Robinson’s recent Twitter warning of new 9/11 like attacks has been reinforced by ABC News’ breaking report of terror suspects arrest.

Mixed reports from mainstream media source appear to be downplaying the potential threat first reported by ABC News, days after a psychic source known to government officials posted a new warning of 9/11 like attacks on Twitter.

According to the New York Times, Dutch authorities are taking the potential threat “very seriously.”

ABC News first is reported the arrest of two terror suspects on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam. According to the ABC report, one of the suspects, Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, “was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives.”

As previously reported by STARpod.org, Chris Robinson, the famous ‘dream detective’ who allegedly warned of the 9/11 events weeks before the actual events, issued a new warning on his Twitter feed on Thursday, August 26, 2010.

According to Robinson’s Twitter posts, and personal email exchanged with this author, Robinson’s recent dreams, alleged to include perceptions of events that have not yet taken place, appeared to indicate an imminent terror threat.

Robinson has posted several messages about his concerns:

“Multiple terrorist attacks are imminent. These will be multiple locations and in the west. Police are not aware of the cells. 9/11 type dreams. Could be USA or UK. London [a] real possibility.”

Robinson has been on the record concerning his pre-9/11 warnings for several years, and has discussed the events leading up to the attacks with mainstream media sources in the UK.

From the Dream Psychic Chris Robinson’s website bio.

During his life up to the age of 36, he reported having dreams which appeared to come true a few days later. This may have been two or three times a year. The frequency of these prophetic dreams increased and since October 1989 they have been an almost daily occurrence. He has co written a book entitled DREAM DETECTIVE published in 1996 and again in 1997.

He came to the attention of Scotland Yard, London England’s Police Department in 1984 and has had regular contact with either police or Intelligence officers from Customs and National Criminal Intelligence ever since. He has been able to provide then with warnings of serious crimes and terrorist activities on the UK mainland. Police officers with who he has worked have confirmed in public, that they evaluate the content of his dream messages and have monitored him for many years.

He has given public demonstrations on live national television showing his ability to dream the contents of sealed containers he did not know the content of by any recognized means.

The main feature of his almost nightly dreams is that they will show him what will occur in his life the next day. This he says is the case even if he could not possibly know what would happen the next day. For example witness a plane crash or other seemingly unforeseeable event.

He says the laws of physics dictate that given all the data about a given model then it must be possible to predict where every element of the model is at any point in time. Hence our ability to launch a spacecraft on a journey and land it hundreds of millions of miles away on another part of the model. In this case the solar system. Given all the data about the universe at one point, should allow us to predict where any single atom, molecule or what ever will be at any other point in time. Is this the mechanism where human beings can dream what is about to happen, or is there another force at work? He perceives that some of the messages in his dreams come from relative or friend who have died. He also accepts that it is possible that there is another explanation. One he has or could not have thought of.

He says it is a very simple thing to prove that his dream data is of a precognitive nature. All one would have to do is take control of his tomorrows and compare the previous nights dream data to the actual data of that next day. For example, take him to a submarine for the day. He has never been to a submarine before and if the night before he dreamt of being in one he says that would prove that there was precognitive data in that dream.

By Binoy Kampmark

Where does the role of the psychic lie in policing? The secular, rationalist follower of hard facts and evidentiary reason might well question their very existence, let alone value. But moments of crisis can increase the emphasis on faith and desires to communicate with the world of the dead. As far back as October 1987, the American magazine McCall’s published an article entitled “Clairvoyant Crime Busters” featuring the feats of such “psychics” as Dorothy Allison and John Catchings. In recent times, a global audience has revelled in the predictive powers of Octopus Paul, predicting sea creature par excellence who managed a near perfect record for the football world cup in South Africa.

Events in Australia recently are more proof of the fact that the psychic world, and the idea of communicating with the dead in a tangible way, is never far away. On record, the Australian police forces do not tend to accept the work of psychics. One federal police officer was even suspended after it was revealed he had sought clairvoyant assistance in foiling a purported plot to assassinate former Prime Minister John Howard. That said, the case of a missing six-year-old Kiesha Abrahams, now missing since August 1, 2010, is another indication that such injunctions are far from being hard and fast.

The investigations of one particular clairvoyant, Cheryl Carroll-Lagerwey, has turned up a discovery near the edge of Eastern Creek at Doonside. It was unlikely to be that of Abrahams, but instead, the lone torso of a woman. Detective Chief Inspector Pamela Young was more impressed than suspicious. “It’s quite interesting that there’s a woman and she had a sense or feeling it was worth her while to come to this particular area of the park” (Sky News, August 12). A post-mortem investigation might reveal it to be that of Kristi McDougall, missing since June 19. The British Sun was happy to run another discomforting headline from its stock-in-trade: “Psychic finds wrong corpse.”

Law agencies around the world have sought at various times to use such powers, and laughing off such measures as those of the superstitious and deranged is not a profitable exercise. Cheryl, herself an Aboriginal elder, was convinced that she had dreamed “about a little girl being murdered and that her body was about here” (Sun, August 13). That said, deep scepticism does remain. Within the United States, a country not averse to experimenting with the feats of the paranormal in security matters, surveys in the early 1990s showed that 65 per cent of police departments in 50 of the largest cities refused to use psychic material. Those who had done so reported disruptions in investigations.

At times, the information provided by psychics can not only be sketchy, but deleterious to police efforts. The investigations of the murdered British teenage model Sally Anne Bowman was a case in point. The celebrity clairvoyant in that case, Joe Power, supposedly had the victim tell him the name of her killer, a certain “Stephen”. Such patchy information did little to assist law enforcement officers, though that has not discouraged him from advertising his skills as Britain’s “finest psychic medium profiler … renowned for his involvement in helping police solve high profile crimes” (Skeptics Report, January 1, 2007). He had cut his teeth on one particular case – that of Southport resident Lynsey Quy, who vanished in December 1998. It took over a year for her husband to admit his role in her death, but Power was convinced that Lynsey had communicated to him about her dismembered whereabouts.

The use by police forces of those of psychic prowess has been condemned in various quarters. When examinations were being done on their effectiveness in the United States, the sceptics came out in force. Ward Lucas, after examining research pitting psychics against six solved and unsolved cases, was unimpressed. As he noted in the Campus Law Enforcement Journal (1985), “We may as well have opened fortune cookies to derive solutions from our criminal cases”.

It may be well and good to heed the advice of under water oracles predicting the results of sporting fixtures. But law enforcement authorities will have to be wary of the sheer complexities of dabbling in the business of psychic consultancy. Such measures can prove all too tempting in frustrating conventional operations of gathering solid evidence, wherever one stands on the complex business of understanding the dead. Even the staff of the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen have tired off Paul’s seemingly prodigious talents. Convention will prevail. He will now go back to the true and tried business of making children laugh.

Source: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au

Police questioned a “psychic” investigator in 1990 after he reported a “strange dream” that a RAF base would be attacked just a few weeks before an actual bomb attack subsequently occurred, the UFO files disclose.

Recently reported by telegraph.co.uk, a man approached officers at the gate of RAF Stanmore, north London, in mid May 1990, forewarning that a bomb could explode at a military installation in the capital.

The man, whose name was redacted in the National Archive files, was questioned by the RAF police about his “psychic premonition” and later released without charge.

But just over a month later, a bomb that had been hidden in a rucksack exploded at the RAF base, which closed in 1997.

No one was hurt during the June 21 attack, which was blamed at the time on the IRA.
The details were disclosed to a UFO trade magazine, after a journalist approached the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk in December 1995 inquiring about the incident. It was to feature in a wider story about “the use of psychics during criminal investigations”.

The journalist, whose name was also redacted, contacted the MoD after the man, believed to be psychic investigator called Chris Robinson, a former television engineer, from Luton, Beds.
He claimed that the investigator had told him about being detained and questioned before four weeks later “to the day” an actual event occurred.

In a statement to the magazine, the RAF police confirmed that a man had visited the site and that a few weeks later a terrorist bomb attack occurred at the airbase.

“I can confirm that (named blacked out) did visit RAF Stanmore sometime before the… 1990 bomb attack occurred and was interviewed by an RAF policeman,” an MoD spokesman said. “There was, however, no question of (him) being arrested.” He declined to detail any specifics about the incident.

By Guest Contributor

Psychic Vampires and energy stealers are everywhere! They are your family members, your friends and they are your co-workers and YOU may even be one yourself. A more common name is a Psychic Vampire and we all know what vampires do! In this case the vampire is sucking our vital energy, depleting us and causing us to become unhealthy emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Spiritual purification and cord cutting are some tools that can keep the vampires away!

What does the term ‘Psychic Vampire’ mean anyway? A psychic vampire is a person that steals other people’s energies because they are living their life in victim consciousness and believe that everything happens ’to’ them. Living in this manner is very dis-empowering. Therefore in order for them to feel better about themselves they need to attach themselves to another person’s energy field. In order for this ‘vampire’ to attach themselves to your energy body, they form cords attaching the two of you together. When they need a boost, they unconsciously steal your energy instead of using their own! These cords are also like highways and run both ways! That means that you will also receive their energy whether it is positive or negative. If they have a headache, you may also develop a headache. It they are depressed, you may become depressed. If they are angry, you may become angry and so on. As you can see this can be very detrimental to your health. At an unconscious level, you have allowed the vampire or vampires to attach themselves to your energy body through these cords. These cords are not visible to the naked eye but they can be seen with the psychic third eye. These cords prevent you from really being the real you! It is imperative that these cords be severed and sometimes a spiritual purification is required for your well-being and also for the growth of the other person.

How do we recognize a Psychic Vampire? Some traits of the dis-empowered energy stealer are:

• feels lonely or abandoned
• feels they have been rejected
• needs constant reassurance
• never feels satisfied
• doesn’t like to be alone
• seeks nurturing or feels they need to be taken care of
• low energy and fatigued
• they have a poor me attitude
• is a drama king or queen
• constant talker that never allows you to speak
• needs you to be their therapist or rescuer fixing their problems
• he blamer making you feel guilty about things
• vindictive by putting you down
• a person that is unhappy a lot
• tries controlling you or your life
• manipulates you to get things their way

How do I know if I am being psychically attacked?

• dizziness
• loss of energy
• muscle tension
• mental confusion
• headaches
• chronic fatigue
• sleep disturbances
• irritability
• depressed mood
• physical illness
• small diminishing aura
• leaks, holes and/or tears in your aura
• and a whole lot more!

I know, you are now thinking that is almost everyone alive! Unfortunately, too many people are simply not aware of their energetic bodies and how they operate. Once people start taking responsibility for creating their own lives and taking back their personal power this will not be an epidemic. (Granted other conditions also can be the cause of these symptoms besides being psychically attacked.) Those that psychically attack others either do this consciously or subconsciously. Either way it is detrimental to your health, in all areas of your energetic being, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

How do I protect myself from this? First you need to become aware of which individuals deplete your energy and limit your contact with them. But simply not being in their physical presence does not stop them from draining you! Know that not all people attacking you are people that you know either! Secondly, you need to release all the negative emotions that you carry within yourself. If you hold anger, hurt, jealousy etc. inside your being, it is like you are shackled to a ball and chain, holding you hostage with your own creation! Releasing of all negative emotions brings freedom as fear is the robber of peace. Why must I do this? Because any disharmony in our four energetic bodies will cause us to be vulnerable, so that darkness and confusion can enter. Being aware of this is empowering. I stress this, do not go into fear now that you are aware of this. Simply take the steps to protect yourself. Darkness consists of anything that is of a lower/heavier vibration such as anger, fear, depression, jealousy, hatred etc. When angry thoughts are directed at you, they can penetrate your weak and vulnerable areas like arrows. What happens is they take away your clarity and fill you with confusion and drain your energy. Following are some tools to empower yourself from Psychic Vampires.

Here is a simple cord cutting exercise. Cord cutting should be done on a daily basis and much more often when we are going through a stressful period in our life. These cords should be cut from our loved ones as well. No cord attached to anyone or thing is good!

Take some deep cleansing breaths. In through the nose and out through the mouth. Call upon Arch Angel Michael and ask him for his assistance in cutting all cords that are attached to your being. Visualize Michael swirling his sword around your entire being severing all the cords. Know that no cord can remain intact and they are returning to where they came from. When you feel Michael has completed this process, thank him for his assistance. It is done. Easy as that!

Here are some physical steps for purification.

• Burn all relevant photographs or objects holding memories of the person, place or situation.
• Write down all feelings of frustration, anger, hurt, fear, etc., and burn the paper, flush it down the toilet or bury it. Please don’t give it to the person! Repeat this step as often as necessary.
• Clear all the clutter from every room of your home. Rule of thumb. If you haven’t used in 6 months it’s not likely you will! Get rid of it.
• Clean and if necessary redecorate your home. Bringing nature indoors is wonderful energy!
• Check there are no books in your bookshelves or pictures on your walls that have negative energy. Surround yourself with high vibrational objects, spiritual books, spiritual pictures, plants, fresh flowers etc.
• Sprinkle holy water in all rooms starting at the center spiraling outwards.
• Smudge with sage, cedar and sweetgrass and invoke the help of God, the Ascended Masters, the Great White Brother and Sisterhood, the Archangels and Angels, your Higherself and I AM Presence.
• Play sacred music and sing, chant OM or say The Lord’s Prayer.
• Cleanse and purify your crystals and dedicate them to the Light.
• Light candles and use high vibrational pure essential oils.

You now have the tools and knowledge to take back your personal power. I invite you to empower yourself today!

Sunny Dawn Johnston is a Psychic Medium who has helped thousands of people across the country find their personal spiritual connection, learn to listen within to their own inner truth and recognize and own their natural spiritual gifts. As a child, with the support of her metaphysical parents, Sunny was given the opportunity to follow her own truth, beliefs, and life path. She was a spiritually gifted child and has since devoted her life to the enhancement of her spiritual gifts and to the application of these gifts with humanity.

From her website bio:

Sunny was born in Cheyenne Wyoming, spent the majority of her childhood growing up in Salt Lake City Utah (living in a metaphysical household), and now resides in Glendale Arizona with her husband, two children and two dogs. Her psychic abilities manifested themselves when she was a teenager and, after being a stay at home mom she began working full-time as a psychic and medium in 2000. Since that time, she has conducted thousands of readings for clients all around the world.

Sunny has become widely known and respected as an International Intuitive, Medium and Spiritual Teacher. As a national speaker, Sunny’s dynamic methods effectively reach out to help people to help themselves. Sunny will help you become aware of the power you have to change your life. Sunny’s spiritual guidance has supported and directed her through many difficult life challenges. As a teenage single mother, Sunny knew she needed to make major life changes in order to feel hope and find peace for herself and her son. Over the past 19 years she has found the courage to embrace life’s challenges and changes by discovering and teaching that ALL answers lie within. Sunny has become a widely known and well respected spiritual teacher, psychic medium, healer, spiritual counselor, author and minister. She has witnessed incredible miracles in her own life through her connection with her Angels, Guides and spiritual helpers and has served as a guide to thousands of others on the path to intuitive development, personal power, awareness and healing.

The Paranormal Moms Society out of Chicago is making waves, with a team of adventurous “mom’s” investigating many types of Paranormal activity and events.

The Paranormal Moms founded in 2007 is a non-profit research team of 6 members based in the Chicagoland area dedicated to furthering the study of paranormal events.

The mom’s goal is to add documented evidence into the field of paranormal study and also to offer assistance to those who wish to have their experiences documented and perhaps in some way validated through photographs, EVP session recordings and video.

To learn more, or become a Paranormal Mom yourself – visit: www.paranormalmomssociety.com

By Guest Contributor

Does a universal spiritual healing energy exist that can seemingly create miracles in your life? Can this energy accelerate your spiritual enlightenment? Can this energy also heal your body and mind?

Many cultures think there is. Let’s take an imaginary vacation around the world and explore this energy.
Imagine traveling to the big island of Hawaii. You investigate an active volcano and witness scientists placing steel rods into the lava.

The steel rods melt. However, much to your astonishment there is a woman walking through the lava unharmed.

Of course you want an answer to this mystery so you approach the scientists to ask them why. How can steel melt in the lava, yet the woman’s feet are totally protected?

The scientists look at you and shrug their shoulders. It’s an anomaly,” they explain. This answer doesn’t help you very much. So you ask the woman how she does it.

She explains that she is a Kahuna and that she believes in a universal spiritual healing energy known to her as Manna.

She believes this energy spiritually benefits her and it can also protect her from the lava. She further counsels you that it can benefit you as well but only if you believe in it.

Let’s continue our mental vacation and travel to Tibet in the winter. You are met by a Sherpa guide. Imagine you are wearing a parka and but are still cold. You travel to a location where you find several monks nearly naked, sitting upon large blocks of ice.

These monks are being filmed and to your surprise they are melting the ice! Of course your rational mind demands an explanation. You turn to the scientists and the camera crew that is filming this event.

The scientist proclaims, It’s an anomaly.” Again the explanation doesn’t give you any information. You approach the monks with your Sherpa Guide. You learn that the monks believe in a universal spiritual healing energy which they call Tumho.

They believe this energy will benefit their spiritual enlightenment and it can be used in spiritual healing. They further believe that it protects them from the cold. They wisely counsel you that this energy can work for you too, if you believe in it.

Let’s continue our investigation and travel to China. Much like Bill Moyers discovered n the 1980′s we find a small elderly man in his 80′s. He is a Tai Chi master and we learn that no one can budge him from his spot.

When we ask the scientists how this is possible, they proclaim, “It’s an anomaly.” Wanting more understanding, you approach the Tai Chi master and learn that he believes in a universal spiritual healing energy known as the Chi.

He believes this energy accelerates his spiritual evolution and it is also a healing energy. He further explains to you that if you believe in this energy it can work for you too.

The next leg of our journey takes us to India where we meet a spiritual yogi, perhaps the supreme yogi, Sri Babaji, the Immortal One. We speak with this young man, a spiritual giant in India, who never ages and wonder about his secret.

He tells us he believes in a universal spiritual healing energy known as Prana. He believes that this energy is most beneficial for spiritual enlightenment and it keeps his body youthful.

He further believes that this energy can be literally brought into one’s life with an intention. Babaji says that this energy can work for you, if you believe in it.

For the last part of our vacation, we journey to France, to Lourdes. While visiting the sacred healing area, we are faced with numerous miracles that science can only explain as an anomaly.

A man riddled with tumors the size of lemons bathes in the water and emerges totally free from them. Crippled women told by medicine they would never walk again bathe in the waters and walk again.

When you ask the nuns what is happening, they proclaim, “We believe in a universal spiritual healing energy we call the Holy Spirit.” They believe this energy furthers spiritual understanding, creating healing miracles in the body and mind.

They believe this energy will work for you as well, if you believe in it.

In our travels we’ve discovered a universal spiritual healing energy known as Manna, Tumho, Chi, Prana or Holy Spirit. It appears that this energy becomes available to believers.

What about you? Are you ready to believe and to receive the benefits of a universal spiritual healing energy? Do you want to feel more connected to a sacred energy that will further your spiritual enlightenment and assist in healing if needed?

If you are ready for the transformation from non-believer into believer, then take a tip from a successful pharmacist of the 1800′s.

His name was Emile Coue and most recognized through his affirmation, “Every day in every way I am getting better and better.”

Coue believed in the effects of his pharmaceuticals, but also believed that the mind was able to affect and even accelerate the action of these medications.

By consciously directing one’s thoughts, he observed that his patients could cure themselves more efficiently by replacing their thought of illness with a new thought of cure.

Coue believed that repeating words or images enough times causes the subconscious to absorb them. The cures were the result of using imagination or positive autosuggestion to the exclusion of one’s own, often negative thoughts.

Let’s use this idea to attune you to the universal spiritual healing energy. Start with the idea that you need to believe in the energy. Replace your thoughts of non-belief with thoughts of belief.

What is a belief? It is a thought held with passion. Just as a yogi consciously believes he can inhale this sacred energy, cultivate the belief within you that you too can breathe in and absorb this energy.
Place your body in a comfortable position.

When yogis want to relax and meditate, they lie down, allowing their shoulders to sink to the earth. They also focus their attention on the middle of their foreheads.

Next, they take a few cleansing breaths to relax their minds and have the right attitude. A cleansing breath is breathing through your nose and exhaling out your mouth while making an audible “aaaaaaahhh” sound.

While doing this, try to imagine you are sinking into a tub of warm, soothing water.

Now prepare your mind with some thoughts. Say the following affirmation aloud three times with PASSION:

“My body and mind are about to receive the universal spiritual healing energy.”

Pause after each repetition and believe this is about to happen. Believe this is the case.

Repeat this affirmation three times:

“My body and mind are now receiving the universal spiritual healing energy.”

Again, after each repetition, pause and feel it. Anticipate and expect it to happen.

Now for the final step with the affirmations, repeat three times:

“My body and mind are completely receiving the universal spiritual healing energy.”

Pause and feel that you are receiving and absorbing this sacred healing energy.

If you practice this affirmation every day, you will find that your ability to receive this sacred energy increases. You are learning to receive and absorb this energy. It doesn’t matter if you call this energy the Holy Spirit, tumho, prana, manna, chi or the power of thought.

The greatest discovery in human history was the discovery of mind. Your thoughts can draw this energy into your life and create surprising changes.

This energy exists if you believe in it. It won’t force itself upon you, but you can choose to bring it into your life. You have the power of choice. Your moment of power is always in the present. It’s your choice.

You now have the power to become a believer and a receiver of this spiritual universal healing energy.

By Guest Contributor

The recapitulation of life force is the body of work, which restores or recapitulates lost life force. Soul Retrieval is one of the most well-known and effective practices to this end.

To understand how recapitulation practices work, we need to look at the multidimensional nature of reality and move away from a linear sequential perspective. From this expanded perspective, ‘anything which has ever happened to anybody, anywhere; it is still happening somewhere’. If a traumatic event occurred for a person ten, twenty and so on years ago, for that person it is still happening, and I would venture to state that it is also in some way still influencing the person’s life.

Shamanism does not dwell on past events; there is only this vast awesome ever-moving great moment of now where there is no separate past, present, or future. It is possible for a practitioner to journey and move outside of linear time to go to the place where that energetic event is still occurring for that individual, find and bring back that person’s life force which is held in that energetic event, and when this has been carried out, then the therapeutic healing of the event and it’s consequences can truly begin.

The loss of life-force is known as soul-loss, and this can take place when we suffer a trauma, have an accident, experience strong emotional exchanges with a loved one, separation from a partner, death of a loved one, go through a pervasive period of difficult circumstances. When we undergo a severe trauma typically a part of our vital nature goes away, so that we can survive what ever is happening to us. It is a way for the body and consciousness to survive severe trauma. Problems develop when the soul part or fragment does not return. It may not want to come back, or may not be able to return due to the nature of the trauma

Joseph Campbell writes in his classic work The Masks of God ‘…sickness according to shamanic theory, can be caused either by the entrance of an alien element into the body, or by the departure of the soul from the body and its imprisonment in one of the spirit regions: above, below, or beyond the rim of the world. The Shaman’s clairvoyant vision must discover its lurking place. Then riding “on the sound of his drum”, he must sail away on the wings of trance to whatever spiritual realm may harbour the soul in question, and work swiftly his deed of rescue.’

The concept of Soul-loss , and the ceremonial retrieval of souls is found in many cultures. For example in the Tibetan Bon Shamanistic tradition, One of the most important practices performed by Tibetan shamans of the Sichen path is Soul Retrieval – Lalu (literally redeeming, or buying back the soul), and chilu, (redeeming the life-energy). These practices are widespread in the Bon tradition and also in all Tibetan Buddhist schools.

Although the terminology is different, the concept of soul-loss is a phenomenon well known to psychology. Jung recounts in his memoirs a fantasy in which his soul flew away from him, that is, the libido withdrew into the unconscious and was carrying on a secret life there. The libido representing the life-force, and the unconscious typically representing ‘the land of the dead’ .

There are a number of symptoms of soul-loss, for example, when people feel that they are observing life as an outsider, rather than engaging and being fully involved. Other common symptoms are when people feel that they are being ‘spaced’ out a lot of the time, not really here. Other symptoms that indicate possible soul loss are life-themes such as a pervasive fear, inability to trust people. I have also found that a severe depression can also be a symptom of soul loss. Chronic illness may also be a symptom of soul loss. This directly relates to Power. In the shamanic worldview, power and maintaining health go hand in hand, if the body is power-full, there is no room for illness or disease, which are often regarded as an invasive force.

In my practice I have worked with many people who had done considerable work on the original trauma, but still were stuck in this. One of the differences between Soul Retrieval and some modern Western psychological systems is that Soul Retrieval focuses on the return and integration of the lost life-force, rather than focus on the original trauma itself. In my view Soul Retrieval and therapy work very well together, the best combination being first the recapitulation of the lost life-force, followed by a therapeutic approach to support the person through the process of working with released feelings and emotional energy which can be uncomfortable and even raw for the individual. This release and subsequent experiencing of the emotions is a fundamental part of the whole healing process, and I cannot stress this enough.

This healing process leads to what I call the union of the life force, when the person can then move forward in their life without being anchored to the past, and live a life of creativity and productivity.

Life After Soul Retrieval

When the soul-fragments are returned, the memories and emotions associated with the departure of the soul fragment may also return. Although this may not always be a comfortable experience, it is a sign that healing is taking place. The experiencing of the emotions and feelings although they may have not been felt prior to the Soul Retrieval , the effects are still working, but at a deeply unconscious level i.e. a place of the not known. The person may have been experiencing a chronic and pervasive depression, yet not able to come to grips with this. Soul Retrieval works very well with other therapies. A therapist can only work with the parts of the person which are there, it is an encouraging development that people are now coming to Soul Retrieval sessions accompanied by their therapist.

The most common immediate response after a Soul Retrieval , is that the recipient feels that they are more ‘full’, that there is more of them. They may even experience the density of the body to have changed.

It is important to recognise, that each person is different and everybody will react differently after a Soul Retrieval. Some may feel heavier, bigger, happier, angry, sad, laughing, or perhaps nothing for a few weeks. My observation is that most people will experience a change within a two week period, two weeks seems to be the magic number when the person really feels the effect. It is important to trust the persons psyche completely.

The only role that the recipient has is to receive the healing. It is important that they keep open, and concentrate on staying open to receive this energy – that is their only task.

After Soul Retrieval , recipients should allow themselves space to be with the returned life-force. For some it may be quiet reflection, others may want to be in nature, in the countryside , in the parks. Nature is a wonderful healer, being in nature, enjoying the beauty of the outdoors, of the Earth, will help the soul-parts to integrate with the recipient.

As reported by ninemsn.com.au, an Indian clairvoyant allegedly kidnapped and decapitated a toddler before drinking the boy’s blood in a bid to attain magical powers.

Abdul Gafoor told police shortly after his arrest on Friday that he had a dream where “evil spirits” told him he would have to sacrifice a child if he wanted to possess supernatural abilities.

The Times of India reports the 31-year-old man and female friend Ramala Beevi, 28, snatched the one-year-old boy from a shrine in Madurai in the country’s south where the child’s widowed mother was living.

The boy was taken to Ramanathapuram, a nearby city, where Mr Gafoor, reported to be a clairvoyant practising black magic, slashed his throat and beheaded him.

The head and body were buried about 128km apart.

Police ordered Mr Gafoor to dig up the body, which was covered in a red cloth, beads and a portrait of the goddess Kali Amman.

The man has not yet been charged.