Soulretrieval

Isis Solaris

Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 2

Week 1 – The structure of soul .................................................................................................. 6

Week 2 – East and South Shields ............................................................................................ 10

Week 3 – West and North Shields ........................................................................................... 17

Week 4 – When the 4 Shields are raised.................................................................................. 21

Week 5 – How to work with others ......................................................................................... 25

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Introduction
How might we recognize soulloss?

A simple form of temporary soulloss is known to all of us. We feel all right, centered and then
the phone rings. It comes to contact with a certain person and slowly we feel drained. We
react defensive with irritation, anger, shutting down, but since social conventions usually
keeps us from saying will you please shut up, we will seek for a way to end the conversation
as quick as possible. The less sensitive among us will recover quickly, the more sensitive
among us will have to deal with an echo lasting a bit longer. The day no longer looks so
glorious; it seems to take more energy to carry on. Some self‐critic may arise questions like:
what in earth do I do wrong, that this happens to me?

The more severe form of soulloss leads to something, known in psychology as dissociation.
Here an involuntary state in which a person feels a form of disconnection, emptiness and
alienation. Often it gets described as: a glass of wall stands between me and the world. The
person no longer feels participant, but experiences herself sole as observer, more than often
also from itself.

Many other symptoms can point to soulloss: Post‐traumatic stress syndrome, addiction,
chronic depression, chronic suicidal tendencies, feeling that one hasn't been the same since a
trauma, immune deficiencies, and protracted grief. Symptoms like faintness, sleeplessness,
emptiness resulting in addictions, bulimia, drinking or others, emotional emptiness, memory
loss, going as far as autism, cataleptic or comatose states.

A person can suffer from severe soulloss and not notice it at all. An example could be the
workaholic, which feels absolutely fine, highly productive and all of a sudden or gradually
crashes. It is called a burn‐out. My point is, that the soulloss doesn’t occur on the edge of the
crash, it has occurred a long time before that.

Most situations of soulloss however may also go unnoticed at all. But soulloss can be a lot
subtler or camouflaged. Soul may leak away slowly, building up. Then one day a soulpart
goes missing. So much for a bit of psychological explanation of soulloss. But let’s not cross
categories too much. It is not all about symptoms and problem-solving. It goes a bit deeper
than that.

More on a shamanistic worldview and philosophy

The shamanistic worldview is a simple one, it survived until today, but shamans never
organized to form a church or other club for their worldview or philosophy. The shaman
traditionally just had few apprentices if at all or it was just knowledge transferred in a blood‐
lineage.

The shaman is dedicated to the survival of the species, not to the survival of self. The
shamanic death in his ultimate initiation has as goal to overcome the selfishness of the self,
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not to lose any form of self‐preservation, but to expand it to service of the community. Those
who have died already and came back, have lost fear of death can assist those, who still have
it. No illusions here, please. We do talk about an evolution of consciousness, but we still deal
with selfishness, it just has gotten a broader tunnel vision. The modern shamanist is pretty
much a new invention.

The shamanist uses the tools and philosophy of shamanism for himself more than for others.
In that he approaches the magician, but hardly feels the need to organize in groups with an
outspoken belief system or a hierarchy based on that very system. A shaman can also be a
shamanist, a shamanist can be a shaman once in a blue moon, but in traditional tribes or
rather what is left from it, a shaman will only be a shaman. For all 3 groups I use the term
shaman.

Now while being a shaman was mostly a local affair, dressed with the local beliefs, the
knowledge was/is as much as universal as divers. Anthropologists created the belief that
shamanism transcended local boundaries, but a certain universalism or rather essence in the
various practices wasn’t of their making. It was for them to describe.

However they also went comparing tribes all over the world and without sensitivity to local
symbolism they cooked a soup in which the incredible individuality and creativity of
shamans worldwide ended up to fit for many people the universalism of the new age ideas.

Neoshamanism did arise with no leader. What simply happened was that a few people got the
same impulse of interest. No matter the various maps of differentiations, that did come from
the few real shamans willingly enough to steer the movement into some direction (a lot saw it
actually as threat and theft) the first thing that did got as virus in the heads of the new
shamans was the slogan we are all related translated into we are all one, instead we are also
one.

If we would be all one, soulloss or theft wouldn’t occur and chemicals put together wouldn’t
give an explosion. Diversity already occurs in the realm of particles. However what makes the
diversity also one is that on the material level unicum doesn’t exist. Particles X may differ
from the others, but it also has countless copies.

Expressions of soul however are all unica. Music, poems, writings, art, buildings. But looking
closer at the expression of the realm of soul one will find elements that expose the underlying
unity.

The point being here, that the more soul is present in a person, the more he will express
himself in some unique way.

Shamans as the first people to express individual soul with performance, art and storytelling
were looked upon as different. The term backwards people in North American Lore describes
that well. Often explained as also a term for homosexuality, it mainly also expresses different.

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The other point being here, that the most searched for experience of the new age, the
experience of oneness is just part of shamanism. The other part is the experience of
uniqueness. An illumination of shamanism would be the experience of both unity and
uniqueness at the same time.

The shaman cannot allow himself either to get lost in the bliss of the total, nor in the
specialness of the unique. Anyhow, the good part is, from this all a tradition of
Neoshamanism of various flavors did arise, trying to reinstall certain ideas in the collective,
that allow association with Chaosmagick to a high degree as well as mutual fertilization.

Today the shaman’s worldview gets often sorted under animism, panpsychism as well as
belief in animatism to name the most important categories. The term animism is derived from
the Latin word anima meaning breath or soul. The belief of animism is probably one of man's
oldest beliefs, with its origin most likely dating to the Palaeolithic age. From its earliest
beginnings it was a belief that a soul or spirit existed in every object, even if it was inanimate.
In a future state this soul or spirit would exist as part of an immaterial soul. The spirit,
therefore, was thought to be universal.

Animatism, according to Marett, another early anthropologist, gets used to distinguish the
concept of a life force from a soul. This concentrated life force gives certain objects, animals,
and people extra‐ordinary powers independent of the power derived from souls and gods. This
power can be called mana (a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be
concentrated in objects or persons). It can relate to non‐religious or quasi‐religious beliefs.
This is related to hylozoism which perceives a life‐force in all things, although not a soul.

Panpsychism from Greek pan and psyche, meaning everything is possessed of soul. Although
there is a distinction between possessing soul (panpsychism) and possessing life (hylozoism),
in practice this division is difficult to maintain. Early Greek philosophers viewed matter as
intrinsically active, some (Thales) even held that all things are full of gods. Aristotle plays the
line between panpsychism and hylozoism.

Giordano Bruno, in the late 16th C., advanced the first clear theory of panpsychism. For him
the basic unit of reality is the monad, animated with its own energy. Souls and gods are
likewise monads, and the innumerable worlds of the universe are interpreted in organic terms,
as having lives of their own." "Campanella (in the 16th and 17th C.) presented the notion of a
graded reality from matter to God, yet each level has to some extent the qualities of
knowledge, power, and love." Numerous theologians and philosophers, such as Leibnitz,
Goethe, Schopenhauer, William James, and A. N. Whitehead have followed the discussion
with such notions as: "all of nature [is] alive, even if slumbering on its lower levels; but all
levels of nature are directed toward consciousness" (Schelling); and "the world is
characterized throughout as a throbbing will, more or less informed by awareness, depending
on the level of reference" (Schopenhauer).

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I am not arguing with all that. Much can be grasped from the thinking level, thinking is a
soulforce too. In some ways the world is what one thinks it is and from that part of the soul,
levels of illumination can be achieved, that seem to outdo the others.

We have also to realize, that in the west the rational the thinking part was believed to be
immortal for a very long time and nearly became s synonym with soul. But not all can get
grasped at the level of thinking, soul has more forces then thinking and I know my territory
and as such I say: Shamanism transfers wisdom that comes from pioneer experience since day
one and the shamanistic world only opens itself for real, if one is willing to experience it. The
map is not the territory, nor will the map become the territory.

Every experience will again be universal, and divers and a pioneer enterprise, because each of
us has to wrestle with the unknown in his own way and with his own luggage. That little
excursion was meant to show how difficult the concept soul can be defined. Yet here we are
embracing the adventure of soulretrieval.

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Death is inevitable on the physical organic level. Organic life needs plenty of energy. You can
choose to live as rock, but it has disadvantages. The process of organic existence will have to
start all over again ever so often. So energy and soul in some way is something to be spent.

However that kind of spending isn’t involuntarily, the soulpart a mother gives to her young
child can be well invested and so is the soulpart lovers exchange. We do crystallize in some
way in our lives, we get different identities, we do get older. The process of becoming never
stops, but does get slower. The problem isn’t that we crystallize; the problem is often how and
into what. A strong soul lives basically until the physical program runs out; the causes of
death are then irrelevant. However in that view, soulloss not only influences the quality and
possibilities in life it also may influence the time of death. If that all sounds fuzzy it is. It is
the nature of the invisible part of our existence. ☺

The structure of soul

The soul gets seen as 3 fold: The part that is called unborn, inhuman or immortal is the one
that never experiences life in a body. It is not aware of itself or of the other parts unless it is
awakened. It relates to the unconscious. If awakened to the superconscious. Its quality is
willing. The nonhuman part partly experiences life, it relates to the subconscious and the
body. Its quality is feeling, memorizing and dreaming.

What experiences human life above all is the human part of the soul, the one that lives in the
middle world, it relates to the conscious. Its quality is thinking. Soul intertwines with the body
and gives it 5 soul forces from 3 different worlds: Willing, thinking, feeling, memorizing and
dreaming. If any of those functions come into unbalance, simultaneous with or without the
body, one looks for soulloss. A human body in the ideal case, will dominantly be the house of
a human soul as the human body gets seen as the creation of the human oversoul.

However a shaman doesn’t see a human body and its psyche only as residence of one single
human soul. He has not a Christian view, one body one soul each. Here it gets a bit more
complicated. The shaman too has a view of many selves, to him also the psyche is a
multidimensional as the 3 worlds indicate, however he also recognizes something, most other
directions don’t: Not every human body is necessarily also a house for a human soul, it also
can be devoid of human soul at all.

So he can see a human body, as a house for something else. The magician can explain that as
demons or gods, the shaman might go further than that. Inhuman and nonhuman are not only
part of a human soul, but inhuman and nonhuman is also used to describe a lot of other things.
To cut that short in this view one would say, human bodies are high in demand by all kind of
soulforms. The shaman uses that in the case of a poweranimal as much as the magician invites
a god or a demon. The modern view that this is all part of the human psyche is most certainly
not the view of the shaman. In his view, the human oversoul needs as much defence as the
human individual soul.

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The reason for that is the human body. It offers experiences, that others don’t. If my teacher
would still live, his inofficial version of the present situation of whole humankind would be
soulloss on collective level. Simply because it is not human to deplete the earth with all
resources, it is not human to overpopulate this planet and it is not human to go to war in the
scales we do. However what is going on depends on local lore. I only can tell the stories I
have heard, others will tell theirs. In the context of my story, we no longer face, what can get
called human, but we cannot think different, because that what we see are human bodies.

Anyhow, before we can do anything for the collective human soul, bodies and all, on which
all our form of existence depend, we have to strengthen ours any way we can, while we can.
Before one engages in the enterprise of soulretrieval one looks for soulfood and prepares the
ritual.

SO HERE WE GO FOR THE FIRS T WEEK.

Step 1: An altar for your soul

Find a place, that can serve as altar for the weeks to come. Keep it empty for now except for
two candles. Find a round Bowl or Plate of a considerable seize. Fill it with sand. The bowl
stands as metaphor for your universe, the sand for your soul. Play a bit with the sand,
visualizing some of your soulenergy transfer to that. Then make it the surface flat. Now with
your fingers paint a human figure into the sand, it will stand for your body, so do that with a
bit of attention and love. Allow yourself several tries, but end with a figure you can be happy
with.

Play some music you really like for the ritual, but choose something you would play for a
baby to feel good.

Enjoy the emptiness of that place, if all goes well you will see some considerable changes
here in the following 6 weeks.

Step two: Tracking for soul food:

You may need, a camera, notebook, alarm. Just for one hour go outside. Set no goal to were
you go, but a starting point. At this point you make a conscious decision to let your soul
search for the food it needs. Allow your self to drift, just walk to were your feeling draws you
to. Avoid thinking about this or that. Just concentrate on the sounds you hear. Don’t name
them, avoid associations.

If you have a camera with you, stop every 15 minutes and find some beauty of which you can
take some pictures. Take something that gives off an alarm, so you don’t have to look at a
watch all the time. Both camera people or not, make mental notes of anything that draws their
attention in a feeling kind of way. It may be subtle, so this walk requires a bit of high
concentration. Don’t analyze the feeling, don’t give a name, don’t analyze the object of your

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attention or the why, just make a mental note of what or whom you have come across. After
the hour, find a spot to make some notes. What was it that has drawn your attention?

Step3: Regeneration

Engage in activities that revitalize you. Allow a bit of indulging.

THE QUESTIONS FOR YOUR OWN THREAD TO ANSWER COULD BE:

 What were your feelings, thoughts raising the altar for your soul? Anything you noticed?
 What did you experience tracking for soulfood?
 In what revitalising activities did you engage? Think about the 5 soulforces and reflect
about, which one you use most? Which one do you use less or very little?

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Week 2 – East and South Shields

A short note on prey and predator

Recapitulation of the shamanistic paradigm I have presented so far:

1. The tree‐ 3 worlds

2. The soul‐ 3 soulparts
3. The Poweranimal
4. The Soulforces ‐ 5 forces willing, thinking, dreaming, feeling and memorizing.

The first step in soulretrieval is already done by most of us here.

Congratulations. ☺

The first act in retrieving soul for oneself is making the acquaintance of a poweranimal. To draw
power for his underworldsoul the shaman associates with poweranimals. In relation, not with
domination. More hel per s usually will be f oun d in t he foodchain. This may look like
opposi t es of some. To this also count symbiotic relations or animals that often appear together. We
get here a glimpse in what way the shaman engages in healing.

The prey and predator pair is for the shaman most certainly not seen as social Darwinism likes to
present it. To him it is just nature, one emerging from the other, one living of the other. The death of
one for food is seen as sacrifice to the whole. And as the predator goes hungry many times, because
he was not up to a smart prey, the prey predator paradigm isn’t taken as top‐dog/underdog
translation. It maybe our fantasy that needs to sees a stronger one. The belief that the strongest
survives may come from a tunnel vision as victim seeking safety in the opposite.

Yet: Kings get poisoned, presidents murdered. Rich p o w e r f u l m e n g e t a h e a r t attack, a

serial killer has chances to be caught and even be killed. And if it comes to a war, get the
bodybags ready. On both sides. But enough of the mimering. The warlord may not make
from his enemy as trusted a l l y ; t h e s h a m a n i n h i s g e s t a l t o f poweranimal can do that
with no problem. I also haven’t yet told one of the main reason why a shaman works with a
poweranimal, why he draws power for his underworld soul, the subconscious or intuitive
part. He doesn’t expect to work his mind ver y well if he doesn’t.

In one way one can see the poweranimal as attempt to get more awareness of what we
call the reptilianbrain, if you know your poweranimal you can get strange experiences of
your animal nature in just daily interactions, in another the reinforcement of the
subconscious hinders the subconscious material to flow over unnoticed into the mind. My
teacher used to joke, when somebody got a bit crazy that his poweranimal was on a
walkabout and now that pour soul was taken by something a lot more interesting and we
usually cracked up laughing.

Another effect, I cannot explain why that is, is that after a given time, there is a quiet mind.

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A lot of initiation rituals were designed to make that transition easier. If they still do I
cannot say. From what I have read about tribal puberty initiation rituals left in present days
most strike me as much dead as most stories of religions or they only work local.

On the other hand a society in which a person gets only considered to make a transition with
21 isn’t much help either. If the shifting of shields hasn’t fully taken place during the
adolescence the person in question has problems to take his place in society and community.
Care of self may get valued more important than care of others. Or worse may stay the sole
goal for the rest of life. The m a n /women s h i e l d i n t h e b a c k g e t s blocked and cannot
unfold despite potential.

The west shield is on the right, the Eastshield on the left. This is called the nagual axis. As
thumb rule, that we can talk about is the tonal, even those glimpses we have gotten from
the nagual. Anything else is the nagual. Other keywords would be, the unknown, the mystery,
the abstract. The shields don’t always fit the above image in position.

It is one of the diagnostic‐tools of the shaman to see the position and the seize of shields and
draw some conclusions from that regarding the process of healing. The Youth‐
Southshield of women and men represents a l l e x p e r i e n c e s f r o m p r e n a t a l , several
stages of youth until puberty.

The quality of the southshield can get seen as trust and love. Both qualities most of us
lost or partly lost with soci al iz ati on and i t got repl aced with fear. So a lot of people
carry that shield in front of them long after puberty. In parts or total, it really doesn’t
matter. Soulloss occurs here not only because shields fragment, it also occurs because the
other shields get blocked in more or less degree, by the fragmentation.

The more a child has been traumatized, disillusioned about his i d e a l and h as b e e n
discouraged to use his soulforces, the bigger and the more rigid the south‐shield becomes.
What can we see as begin of puberty? I leave that entirely to you. Maybe it was a notice of
change of body, maybe the awareness of sexual desire , the first period, the first erection.

What most impressive for you at that time? Make this to your keyevent.

The age you remember with it, will give you the s e c o n d c i r c l e o f p o s s i b l e
repet i t i on of events in your life. The first is the birthmatrix.

So let’s say the begin of puberty is with 11 for you, you add 11 years for the completion
of your adolescence. It is then that you have become grown up. It is not that you stop
growing or learning, but from that moment you have a different base for that. That way we
can look at the early birds, the late birds, every person may have his own spiral based on
his second circle.

To repair the damages growing up the shaman dances his other shields awake. In order to
balance this first shield, we turn to the nagual axis and the Eastshield. To the impeccable
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inner child, a boy for a women, a girl for a men. This shield relates to the soul essence of
the upperworld soul. Without this part many children couldn’t survive their childhood‐
trauma’s at all.

Now most people think of trauma as a sudden and single events, often more dramatic are
situations that lasted longtime. The child of this shield is said to live the soulvision on
earth. We usually call that an ideal.

The quality of the Eastshield can get seen as vision and the willingness to unfold
potential.

His parents are mother earth and father sun. It doesn’t give the weight to his physical parents
as the Southshield‐child do es , but it respects them as representations of the great parents. It
comes with sudden inspiration as it relates to the willing of the uppersoul with its
“begeisterung” for das “lebensspiel”. This child has never been hurt, never been
programmed. It can become quiet, but it never can be lost to the degree of no return.

It will always steer you in the direction of its mission under all circumstances, you may
not know, what it is, but the child of this shield does. If people tell about illuminations in
very hard circumstances in this paradigm it comes from this s h i e l d . Strange s u r v i v a l ,
u n u s u a l l u c k , synchronicities, a flow one can feel, all that comes connected to this
shield. If you can terribly laugh about life see surrealistic m o m e n t s , i t c o m e s f r o m
t h i s shield. If you can get drunk by m ystery it comes from this child. It will manifest in
all circumstances, if you let it.

Now while psychology is very familiar with the inner child, it only works with the
Southshield. That is only half work in shamanism. Only when the South and East shield of
the Youth start dancing together, the totality of the power of the child can get integrated.
So it is here were our history will begin. We enter the circle in the east. Once we have
awareness or retrieved the east –shield with its help we can retrieve the lost soulparts of
the Southshield. The magic on which this is based is the law of attraction.

THE WORK FOR WEEK TW O

1. Task: Prepare to journey.

You journey with your poweranimal to retrieve your Eastshield. You are looking for the
girl or boy t h a t represents it. Let your poweranimal guide you to which world. Once you
have found it, notice the age of that child and any details you can grasp. How does the
landscape look you find it in. Are you in the upperworld or underworld? What is your reaction
on this child?

Now let t hi s chi ld take you to a m om e nt before you incarnated. The moment of
conception. What was his desire for it, what soulvision did it have, what did want to manifest
in this life. What was it that attracted y o u to your parents? What qualities did it feel it
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could use of either of them? Don’t interfere with the vision. Accept what the vision of
Eastshield has to offer. Be alert on feelings of your bodyimpressions, Often that child
transmit directly.

Then ask the child of the East‐shield show or you in what way it wants to support you right
now. Then you return and you bring the east‐shield back with you and while you that, you
touch with your right hand the left hand. The seat of the Eastshield.

The integration ritual for the east shield

Make a little mandala in which you draw the child o f the opposite gender, you add colors that
transfer your impression. Any symbol you like for that child. You can do that again as much as you
like, end with something you are happy with. Again play some music you would do for a child.
Glue a toothstick on the back of the shield, raise the shield in the bowl of your soul. Light y o u r
candles a n d m e d i t a t e o n t h a t shield. Imagine how your potential to find soulfood and
inner wealth will be growing, now that you have contact with this shield.

Second Task:

Wait at least a day or two after you start with this one: Recapitulate keyevents of possible soulloss
from your Southshield as long as you can remember of the second circle youth to puberty. It is not
that important if you remember them yourself or if you have been them told. If you want, you can
take a photo album to help you with it. If there is a year with no memory at all just write
the year down. Pay attention to any situation that could have caused soulloss.

A disease, specially periods of disease, operations, the birth of a sibling, an accident, any
kind of loss, even loss of an animal, loneliness, being misunderstood, being bullied, fears,
nightmares, being punished, separations, failures, friendships that did break up, injustice,
betrayal, abuse, boredom With each of the events try to feel your body. What kind of
reactions did you have pure physical. What emotions did arise in response to the
physical reactions?

List both next to the event as well as a number from 1‐10 for intensity of feeling. Now for the
events of that period that calls most of your attention you undertake a journey to bring
your soul back.

Prepare for the journey: Focus on the begin of the journey on the physical feeling you had
remembering that event, the emotion as well. Make it as strong as you can. Let your
poweranimal bring you to the inner child of the south. May be many inner children. Be
alert of the surrounding, the landscape. Even the tunnel. This all tells about this soulpart
more than many words.

When you meet the soulpart, this inner child of your own gender, again how does it look,
what are his nonverbal signals? Don’t ever be shocked about eventual looks. It can happen
that you see something that is not pretty. Limbs can be missing, faces may be deformed.

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This all will heal, when the soulpart is brought back. When you have found it, engage in
a conversation as good as you can. Why did it go back into the underworld, what was it, that
it made loose trust, what of needs weren’t fulfilled? Let it tell its own story if it wants. Not
all parts are willing to come back immediately, it may take negotiation. Above all you
may have to tell a part of this shield why it is safe now, to come back and integrate again
with the South‐Shield. You may have to give a promise for change. If nothing helps, you can
call in the child of the Eastshield. At times you have to accept failure. Another child, soulpart
then the one you are looking for may show up. Trust the process. The procedure is the
same, now you have to ask what situation did trigger the loss. More than one child may show
up. Don’t take more t h a n 3 a t a t i m e . There i s a l w a y s tomorrow. ☺

Since those are you own soulparts, you don’t work with a container. You can just invite
them to come with you or ride your poweranimal home. If it is a small one, ask it to
grow to convenient seize. Together you return. You bring the child into the part of the body
it wants to be in. If there is no choice, you bring into your heart. After that, you withdraw
from the situation all soul energy that is left in it. To help you with that, visualize a color. You
breathe it out of the situation and back into the body.

The integration ritual for the southshield

You draw a mandala for the Southshield. This time a child of your own gender. Colors of which you
feel that will give this child or children what needs. A symbol that will raise the power of this inner
child. Again you raise the shield in your bowl. You place it to the south. You leave it here until you
have the two other shields on which we will work on next week. You don’t have to make a journey
for every shieldfragment of the south. Other parts may return now, in the trail of the others and by the
attraction of the Eastshield. Keep concentrating on t he E a st s hi e l d after that.

After a while, you take the list you have made, read it over again and you see if the intensity rating
of your reactions has changed. Only if some events still score as high or even higher you repeat that
work. Then you have to give it six month rest.

THE QUESTIONS FOR THIS WEEK

What do you want to share about the journey to the Eastshield and the integration ritual?

What do you want to share about the journey to the Southshield and the integration ritual?

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Week 3 – West and North Shields

The west shield

The next shield we are about to retrieve is the Westshield. Here the man finds the female, the
women her male, that what they look for in one or several partners. Understanding between
man and women comes by the grace of this shield. When they dream together they do that by
the grace of the Eastshield. When they trust each other they do that by the grace of the
Southshield.

Here in the Westshield the man understands the women and the woman understands the man,
while the sexual attraction between both comes from the Northshield and their poweranimals.
The last tend to bring in a bit of libido. This shield also represents deep will; it is also called
the healershield. A man draws power from his inner women, a women draws power from her
inner man. Only with this shield self‐love can happen. The shaman often takes on the gender
of this shield when he attempts to heal others.

The Eastshield may hold the vision of the direction in life; it is this shield that gives the will
to the manifestation of the vision. This Westshield also seen as source of the many male and
females gods. To a shaman gods are representation of people who have lost their West
shields and have given their power to their self‐made creations. In that way they have become
slaves of their gods, slaves of their archetypes. And unless all gods aren’t destructed,
humanity will not be free and no love will happen between them, because they cannot love
themselves anymore, because they love their gods more.

The genius so often attributed to gods in this paradigm would come from a strong connection
between Eastshield and Westshield and would be seen as strong manifestation of soul. The
Eastshield as much as the Westshield has its own archetypes in the egregore grown from it.
Eastshields cannot be given away as the Westshields, as the Eastshield is rather
indestructible. Instead they leak their power into the collective and what they form here are
“tell you what to do” angels/entities that nobody owns. We find here the higher self, guardian
angels, anything of that range. “Tell you what to do angels” for the pleasure of the new age,
channelers and magicians. Personally a leak will not matter much, as a whole humanity loses
direction and the sense for a meaningful life. Now the question may arise can a shaman work
with gods.

Most certainly, he too can draw power from those archetypes that are vortexes for the shields
from others, but with strong shields he will not suffer soulloss of his own and he is not
dependent on them for evolution. Gods don’t evolve. They have no soul. But they can get
bigger and more powerful the more followers they have. The gods have no will of their own,
because they have no soul. What the gods have as will is that what is given to them by
humans. If they are allowed to take the Westshield, they may reward with power, unusual
power even, in the end they often destruct. Because of those gods and demons the shaman
also has become a warrior.

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 What did any of the persons you have known in close relationships mirror of this
shield?
 Would anything have been different in the past if this shield would have been more
active?
 How will your relationship(s) improve with this shield?
 Here relationship also grows bigger into all relations.
 What deep will does the Westshield men or women express, how will s/he help to
manifest the vision and ideals of the Eastshield?
 With the Eastshieldmen and women you are now ready to undertake the soulretrieval
for your Northshield.

The north shield:

The Northshield contains the memory from puberty till the present day. It stands for what
one can call a healthy ego unless parts of this shield are lost. It represents thinking and action
your role in daily life. A grown up that can take responsibility and wants to be constructive as
member of his community. It is here that you look for soulloss that happened through
relationship, love‐ relationship first , then wider relationships. Divorce would be a big item
here, loveless relationships, loss of job, and failure of study. Soulloss to teachers occurs more
than one expects. Religions, cults, ideologies belong to that as well. The procedure for
soulretrieval isn’t any different than that of the Southshield. The Southshield instructions to
work with a list can get used here as well.

Shields interconnectivity and your own story.

The graphic above shows the way the shields feed each other. Desire and Meaning comes
under the soulforce of Dreaming as the Eastshield has the knowledge of the “mission” of this
life. Looking back at your life with the help of this shield, may unfold a red thread if you
interpret main key events in relation to your mission. Success and crisis all maybe understood
and instead of single events become a story related. The question is simple: What was the
function of situation x in relation to my mission.

Trust comes under feeling, because trust shouldn’t be blind. A functional Southshield is alert.
But the trust of this shield is high enough to enjoy life and strife for a good life and remind
one to take soulfood in whenever one can. When you look back at your life you can find here
the story of your life’s pleasures and in what way they did help you with your mission. But
also struggles with survival and overcoming struggle of survival would fall under this shield.
Growing from surviving to living. Love comes under will. No codependent relationship, no
wish to become somebody’s better half. However it also reminds one that to love is the
deepest will and unfolds only if it is consciously willed. The story of this shield will not only
show in what way your relations can be interpreted in connection to this shield, but in what
way your relations did play a role regarding your mission. What did your relationships learn
you, in what way have they been initiators, how did they help you to grow so that your
“mission” can unfold even better? Action comes under thinking, simply as in think before
you act. The story of this shield is that of a hero, the life path is seen here from the view of
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the hero. Again in relation to the mission. What obstacles were you able to overcome, What
personal wars did you win and what functions had those you lost.

If you can tell the stories of your 4 shields and they start to intertwine slowly a vision or
pattern may arise of what the soul manifests with you in this form and even that what may
have been seen as chance alone may fall into place. Single events may start to connect in a
way you haven’t seen before. You slowly may start to remember. This remembering is
beyond ego, beyond self‐image it is a very subtle thing. It may appear that what you thought
as rewriting your memory may actually have been an act to undo you of false memory. A
deep sense of meaning of life may arise a trust in the unknown. A sense of wonder, a
realization that this universe may be a lot better as with what it is usually advertised.

That versus the experience that one is just a leaf in the wind a fleeting moment, a grain of
sand in the whole and deep at the bottom life is truly meaningless and nothing really matters.
A machine version of the universe ruled by chance. While from that a sense of freedom may
arise at best resulting in a heroic battle with ruthless forces for the heck of it, it is exactly
that experience the shields help to protect against or rather enable one to return time after
time.

The warrior shaman stands up and battles for his soul, those of others and a life worth living.
His weapons are his shields and his story. Shielded the chaos of the universe will become
his trickster, the open opportunity, a realm of possibility; change will be welcomed as the
living story needs to unfold and change. The fear of life can be left behind. A relationship
with soul leads to a relationship with spirit, the shaman can meet the unknown with trust.

TASKS FOR WEEK 3:

The tasks for week 3 aren’t much different than those for week 2. By now you know the
procedure. The only addition in this week: A love poem or letter to your Westshield man and
women.

QUESTIONS FOR WEEK 3:

 What do you want to share about your Westshield?

 What do you want to share about your Northshield?
 Keep the work at your own pace. Some of you are working very hard.
 Next week we will look at the practical application of the shields.
 Go for more soulfood and have fun.

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Week 4 – When the 4 Shields are raised

We have worked with the oldest human archetypes that exist: Male, female, adult and child.
One could add the old wise men or women, but the shield grows into that by itself in the
Northshield.

One of the main goals was to combine a transpersonal or subconscious personality with the
one of which we mostly feel that exists for real. The adult and child of the same gender and if
you have done the work well, by now you should have a different identity feeling with all
four shields + the fifth, the medicine‐shield. The shield to which all your allies belong such as
the poweranimal, a certain herb, a certain stone. That shield belongs behind the Southshield
in position.

It is one of the ideas in shamanistic magic, that for results to happen it takes at least two to
combine. What is fire without wood? Earth without water and if atoms wouldn’t combine
with others, what would be the purpose of their existence? The same goes for repulsion. Here
simple magick start with male and female. Another way of looking at it are the signs + and
– With two action can arise.

Ego in this paradigm is seen as something that is appreciated, but certainly not seen as
singularity. More as an unfolding flowers in a garden as from all shields different qualities
can rise, most certainly if their qualities become combined.

Also not as a coming and going of identity by chance as in some eastern traditions. That is
seen to happen to those, that aren’t shielded. A crazy person in that sense wouldn’t be
shielded however being unshielded can also be something to seek by purpose.

I have always found wisdom in this concept: It is old, but already here it says I‐dentity as
construct of selforganization, function in the world, as protection. Selforganization as main
quality of the soul. Those 4 identities aren’t seen as mental constructs as they didn’t happen
by intent, but through soulpower. May be good way would be to say they are organically
grown identities. Roots on which intentional identities, such as those of actor or those of a
magician can be added as layers.

However we have also seen that the shields can be repaired and changed. Whenever you feel
like you can create a new shield of all directions by the method given. However for now stay
with the shields you have made. Their sigils are sigils of power and you meditate on the
quality of each until you know them very well and they serve to construct a realistic, yet
powerful selfimage. Those shields shouldn’t also been seen as masks or false personalities.
Those rather would be seen as soulloss, parts of the shields missing.

Another way to describe the results of this kind of soulloss is saying that a reaction pattern
has been stuck in the past and is repeating the situation of the past. Soulretrieval as such can
also be seen as shield repair.

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The meditation that belongs to the shields is to visualize them dancing around the body, you
know their original place, their original energy, their original feel. In one way the meditation
has a goal to realize that you are none of those personalities, at the same time you are.

Another goal is to realize fluidity of reaction and interaction with others. In that meditation
you can also observe the shields, their energy level. The main goal is also to observe if the
shields harmonize with each other.

Shieldpower

If you have understood your shields well you realize that each shields has a certain range of
reaction pattern and qualities. For each of us they are unique and different in all 5 shields.
And here we get to the use of shields in daily life. I have talked about the natural shift that
should happen with puberty.

The Northshield should come into front; the Southshield should go to the back. The medicine
shield should stay on it place. With an adult it mainly should serve his Northshield. That
could be seen as general configuration of a strong ego approaching life.

Simply translated:

The first approach to everything is using the soulforce of thinking in front of a new task or
problem. Because thinking gets attributed to your Northshield. Backed up by the intuition
of your allies. A neutral approach asking or determining: What are the best strategies to get
clarity here? What connections can I see? What can I learn from this? What is here the
function? Is it worth to activate my Westshield and its will for this? A common sense
approach. But you are not fixed to use that shield, it is rather a recommendation. Your first
approach can also be using the Eastshield. It could be like: How exciting, I am curious what
will come out here. What kind of creativity can put into this one?

A Westshield reaction could be: I have a lot of power and I am going to solve the problem or
the task. I am responsible for all that happens in my life and therefore I also have the power
to handle it. I sort of love this of situations. Let’s be quiet for a while and go inside to reflect.
A Southshield reaction may be: This feels a bit awkward; will there be time to enjoy myself
as well?

The above are just examples.

In what ways you use the shields is something that you only can find out by daily
observation. Is there a shield that comes as your favorite? So in daily situations not only
notice what shield you use at first, but also try to look at each situation from the perspective
of the other shields. At given moment you will notice that you will able to handle your
shields with intent and also combination of these. Also observe others; what kind of shield
are they presenting you. The sensing of shields in others belongs to the communication skills.

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If somebody presents you an unrepaired Southshield, what do you think will happen if you
mirror that with a neutral Northshield? Or vice versa. As thumb rule here:

Same sex and young/old shield for understanding.

Crossings for attraction and sparkle.

Defence: Medicineshield + North and west.

To lighten up: East

Best is to practice that in daily situations.

Specific soul food for the shields

Now at the beginning we started with soulfood, now we are going to make that more specific.
Whenever you have a trouble with one of the shields you have been given a repair method.
Soulfood however is a method to keep your shields strong and fluid and to help to solve
problem from a more lighter nature.

SOUTHSHIELD

For the Southshield you look for place with water and seek its wisdom and the way it handles
obstacles. Let the child of Southshield play with the water; enjoy it, becoming the water.
Turning to the direction of south is also a source of power for that shield. Flowers are another
source of power for this shield. If you meet obstacles you turn to the Southshield and
Water.

NORTHSHIELD

For the Northshield one would look for a mountain and if that is not available as in my
country here for rocks and stones. You go for a walk a pick up a stone just by intuition. Then
you meditate on that stone, what has it to say for your Northshield. Look if you can find an
animal in it or a rune sign. The Northshield also combines all signs on the walk. The animals
you meet. Plants you come across. The Northshield looks for an overview. A vision quest. If
there is a problem one looks with this shield how to give it away or to solve. If you have
picked up a stone, you return it to nature only after you have solved the problem.

Another source of power for that shield is the pole‐ star. In the night whenever you have the
chance turn to it and draw its radiation in. Air and breath belongs to the Northshield.
Breathing techniques strengthen your Northshield. If you meet resistance in yourself and
others you turn to the Northshield and Air.

WESTSHIELD

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For the Westshield one would look for the woods or a cave. Here too you can pick up
something in case you feel blocked, stuck. If you can release your block, you bury that object.
Lying on the ground strengthen this shield. Every journey within strengthens this shield,
because you go into your own dark and most of the time you can resolve something. The dark
is empowering to this shield. If you meet blocks or feeling stuck you turn to the Westshield
and Earth.

EAST SHIELD

For the Eastshield one looks for an open space. Gras, sand, anything that is pretty horizontal.
Sun is the power for this shield and sunrise will come as strongest. This is the time of birthing
of every day, the time that new life awakes. However sundown is also important as it gives
An Eastshield Westshield combination. Every candle you light is soulfood for that shield,
every fire you sit around. If you feel lack of inspiration or lack of pure desire for life, lack of
happiness you turn to this shield and the fire and light.

THE TASKS FOR THIS WEEK:

Task 1: Examine you first walk for soulfood in the context of the shields. What shields were
involved mostly looking for food? What shields did draw most attention. How does this relate
with the work of the shields you have done. Report, what you want to share.

Task 2: Go for a soulwalk for the shield you feel the weakest of all. No matter how strong
they might feel now. Bring back pictures and report what you want to share.

Task 3: For at least 3 days experiment in daily situations with a multiple shield response.
What was your experience? Was there a shield you noticed coming first or favorite? Are you
already learning to hear the voices of the shields in yourself or others? Report what you want
to share.

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Week 5 – How to work with others

Suggestions in how to work with others have been covered in the thread “Working with
others” so I will not go into that subject again in this writing. If there are still questions they
can be asked in the thread.

Attachments of the shields

For lesson 5, I would like to list the various attachments or layers one can encounter in
working with the shields.

The Eastshield: Genetic, collective or former live memory. All 3 can form pseudo
possessions and can include memories that don’t stop in the earthly realm. Experienced
based beliefs of the Southshield, transferred to the Eastshield. Impersonal HGA or other
Higher Self forms like channelled avatars.

The Southshield: Parents parts and voices. Parts inserted from peer pressure. Attachments or
possessions of Plantspirits, archetypal demons, ancestors.

The Westshield: Parts of living partners, former life partners, dreamlovers. The patriarchate
archetype. Experienced based beliefs of the Northshield transferred to the Westshield.
Possessions by Gods, Goddesses

The Northshield: Concepts and beliefs that have enough supporters to form an egregore.
Zeitgeist. Temporal as in hype or long‐lasting as in tradition. The Egregores can be old or
new and both. Religions, ideologies, cults, traditions. Possessions by ideas, thoughtform or
living persons, such as gurus, but also from dead entities. Books even. Possessions of animal
spirits.

It should be clear that this is neither meant as positive or negative in the listing to start with.
You have to trust your intuition in this in judging attachments in a journey. Attachments can
work positive or negative. The listing also just describes what I have encountered most as
attachment with each shield.

Replacement of the shields:

One talks about a replacement of one of more of the shields if possession has happened to
such a degree that one talks about a permanent or impressive personality change, that wasn’t
intended. One has to think here of persons awakening from coma and behaving in a way
hardly recognizable anymore to others. Transplants of organs can have a similar effect, heart
transplants in special. To a certain degree that also goes for blood transfusion. but a lot less.
Weak ego by constitution, extreme soulloss can be another reason. What we have in
institutions to punish or protect society from is seen as possession of Egregores or entities in
this paradigm. Today I have heard that we have in one town alone 30.000 teenagers engaged
in criminal activities a behavior that doesn’t stop at schools and is concentrated in certain
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areas. That may come pretty close to possession of an egregore. Think alike, look alike and
do alike and closed off to influence. At times I think we may need magical workers to sustain
the social workers.

Another possibility is willful and more often unintentional invocation happening simply by
resonance. As example: No alcoholic drinks alone. He will have one or more attachments
(ghosts) to one or more of his shields pushing harder to self‐destruction. Physically one may
see one sitting alone at the bar, but is the one really? Look twice. Plantspirits as well as
animal spirits can have dangerous sides. Plant sprits can create addicts, animal spirits
people, who deny human soul and the responsibility that goes with it and glorify animal
behavior or that what they think it is.

The body as shield

So far we have introduced 5 shields. In some ways the body is another, the 6th shield. There
is a 7th and an 8Th, but those are beyond this course, for advanced Shieldcarriers really. The
first 4 shields do come body based in image to begin with, but alone from the body flow a lot
of other beliefs, as well limits, what a person can do or not do. We mostly experience our
body awareness together with the North and Southshield, but may be it is good to mention
that body awareness also comes all by itself.

Think of it as always awake even during sleep. I never forget the situation that a blazing cow
in my dreams was really my snoring partner. As such the body has also an own memory and
some soulloss can only concern the body or in the first place the body. One can think here of
operations, loss of limbs, long time of severe stress, time of hunger. I worked for several
months exclusively with people that had been in camps. A lot of work on the bodyshield was
required even after many years. Heavy work. But brought me the nicest compliment I have
ever had.

An interesting theme in this may also be meno and penopause. The last a usual occurrence in
everybody life. In nature an organism that no longer participates in the procreation process
becomes useless and dies. That kind of body memory still lives in our body as well and many
physical reactions mainly come from that. In those times it is good to work with this shield as
singularity as well. Regarding all problems with menopause, I can only say, what problems?
And, no this wasn’t luck or constitution.

The extreme (often negative) judgments we have these days towards this shield can create
attachments for it that also create dysfunctions. The same can happen with over and under‐
identification of this shield. Hypochondria or reduced body feeling. By all means be happy to
have a body in the first place. Mind over matter is not seen as result of control in this
paradigm but as cooperation between shields. Healing often gets prevented or acted against as
the bodyshield may be seen as enemy in case disease occurs.

In the shamanistic paradigm disease comes from outside in the first place. It is either a spell,
psychic attack, an overtake of a spirit (virus or microorganism) a collective infusion
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(thoughtform) as in the case of cancer. So again attachments. An interesting idea really,

because per definition the body is seen as healthy. He can be wounded, aging, but he is
always healthy.

In this paradigm all organic bodies are connected because they are made the same material.
All bodies in the world are also seen as one body as strange as it may sound. Hence collective
diseases can occur the same way as collective behavior can occur. In this view charity also
doesn’t exist. The chain is only as strong as it weakest link and to live in a strong chain you
have to make sure to work on the weak links. Societies in which everybody has a good life,
one he can be reasonable happy with, last longer than those in which it is not the case. Ideas
like the morphogenetic fields would fit into that idea.

Also often when the bodyshield is concerned, one will find intrusions instead soulloss of the
body. These intrusions can be removed by the sucking method described in Harners book or
psychic operations. I have learned to do the last a bit from a Philippine healer, because he
asked me to assist him for a couple of days and look closely. I have seen several of his
successes with own eyes. He didn’t use slight hand tricks usually used to impress the public,
but at times I saw weird things really. He usually asked me what I saw, if it was ok he
nodded, if not he just shaked his head. He had done two operations on me before to repair a
couple of things, it felt quiet pleasant really. The last he did, was the total horror and I had
aftereffects from it for months. But as he had done, what I wanted, after refusing at first,
nobody hears me complaining. Amazing guy, he could work ten hours a day and then was
just as cheering as he begun. I can’t say, I am very good with it, but I usually give a try if I
know nothing else. At times it works. But the feeling one gets with it can be pretty nasty. I
mainly mentioned it here, because the idea of operation can be a useful alternative to the
sucking method.

If journeying for the bodyshield one basically looks for one owns or the person astral body to
see if there are intrusions or fading parts. The fading parts soulloss of the body can get
restored during the journey by a healing technique you know and you can perform astral.
Intrusion can also be removed astral, but at times a physical ritual will be necessary to get
more effect. Energy leaks may also appear. Sort of something really flows from that
shield. Another remark, that shield may not always appears as a nice astral body. You may
see parts only, organs, cellstructures or all of a sudden journey as if inside a body.

Should you work on somebody else, make sure you have a container ready with you, to
which you transfer the intrusions. I usually have a crystal, I hold in my hand journeying. Any
intrusion you find, you have to take out of the system, which means you cannot leave it in
any world, but you have to bring it to this one in a container. At times you may need to bury
the whole thing, throw it into water or burn it. I usually clean the crystal from the intrusions
with water and bring it out to full moon to recharge.

Also look if soulloss, blocks or attachments in a corresponding shield has occurred once you
find phenomena with the bodyshield. Corresponding: left right side – east –west. Up down:
North – South.
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In extreme shock or disease, a shaman’s treatment will always come directed to this shield, as
the body is seen as much as creation of soul then all other I‐dentities.

The flower ceremony is an expression of that. The person in question gets first ritually
bathed then layed down outside on a beautiful spot, tightly wrapped and rolled in a clean
sheet full of strong smelling flowers and gets layed into the sunrise. A shaman sings softly a
songs of praise of all shields during the sunrise. Then the person gets unwrapped and
welcomed as if he came back from the land of the dead. As many people as possible
participate. A wonderful ceremony to open a treatment.

Translated to modern terms this can get compared to aroma, sound and light therapy. Or
rather a combination of these. However a shaman will also have his pallet of other treatments
for this shield, herbs, massage, cleansing and alike.

One of the reasons the body is seen as shield may probably best become expressed with the
words of Feldenkreis:

“The function of the nervous system is to organize chaos.”

“The nervous system is the greatest anti‐entropy device in existence”

The same really goes for all shields. I would like to add it is not its function to resist chaos
because chaos is spirit really and neither is this the function of the other shields. However it
happens.

Soulloss and beliefs

If the shields are organizers (a manifestation of the self organizing power) of chaos or
resisting to chaos depends on the stories of each of them. Each shield can be seen as a belief‐
nucleus around which a set of believes dance around as electrons. The hidden story of the
experienced based beliefs, who really make up what we can believe and cannot believe.

That versus beliefs as in concepts, models, ideas, paradigm and philosophy. It is important to
understand the difference. With the last category we may be easy‐going and readily
acknowledge that there is no ultimate truth, with the first we may have a personal truth of
which we often know little.

Let me illustrate that with an anecdote: A pretty well known therapist did a session on me in a
masterclass. He found one of my corebelieves: The world is not safe. Pure experience based
and with the life I have lived traveling a necessity. I would have been in deep trouble several
time, if I wouldn’t have had extreme sensitive trouble sniffer. This therapists saw no good in
the belief, but feared that it would act as self‐fulfilling prophecy and call for situations
that would confirm that belief. Not that he had not a point here as well.

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In the meanwhile, I was in deeply in trance, experiencing a death as pilot in the second world
war. How in earth could I believe in that very moment, that the world was safe? It was in
total discrepancy to my experience in that parallel world as anybody can imagine. In that state
I simply considered him as nuts. After he had emptied his whole bag of NLP‐ tricks on me to
make me believe the world was safe, I kept disagreeing.

At a given point, I stood up, deeply in trance and went out of the door and outside the
building. All the time the journey as pilot was carrying on, had gone looping replaying the
same scene over and over again. I nearly got run over by a car, not only to confirm my belief,
but mostly because I couldn’t see very well. I finished the session myself under a tree.
Something I would not have believed as therapist to be possible, as shaman I had not to think
twice and I did a good job.

For those who have never been in a masterclass: You don’t walk out on the master and most
certainly not if you have been graced with a session. I felt awkward going back unsure about
the reactions. When I entered the room again, he stormed up to me with full emotional
flag and embraced me with an endless hug. (We are talking a huge American guy here. Insert
tankfeeling.) “How in earth can I make this world safe for you “

On my trycorder appeared the undertitles: I am honestly concerned. I am OK, when I am in

charge and you are OK, when you let me be in charge. I asked him if he believed that the
world was safe. "But most certainly I do believe that" he called out. I said to him, it is great if
you can believe that, I can't. Finally I was off the hook, he accepted. Then I noticed the others
in the room. The people were mainly concerned as he was, several had gone looking for me,
others were still flabbergasted how I could have walked away in trance in the first place
wanting to know, how I did it. Later the day, when we drove back to Town, he was right next
to me in the car. He asked me, if I could recommend any safe gaybars and excused himself
for asking, but he couldn't trust anybody else with that information and since the town was a
dangerous town.... I should have nailed his sorry ass right then and there, but I didn't.

Like I said, he was a sweet guy really, I have learned a lot of him and it was OK that he
couldn’t make my world safe. Well, I still believe the world isn’t safe, but I also believe that I
am very, very lucky and under protection. All the above beliefs are experience based.

I hope this funny story will illustrate how strong experience based beliefs can become. And if
they rational or irrational really doesn’t matter.

Each and every soulloss we discover represents also an experienced based belief, resisting to
chaos. By focusing on the process and not on any goal we allow that belief to change.
Experienced based beliefs get changed during another experience and trance and its story
provide that experience. After all the subconscious doesn’t know, what happens for real and
what doesn’t. Is this creating a false memory? May be. But then we cannot know, if the first
one wasn’t false either or rather said, elected constructed on unknown criterias. With this
procedure, in principle we don’t have to know, what the belief was or what it has become

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after we allowed the story of our trance‐dream play out. But it will also not hurt trying to
discover the mental version.

The reason I highlight it here, is that magic is all about programming the subconscious, but
little attention is given to the programs already running. Now suppose that you want to
become rich but you have an experienced based belief, that there is something wrong with
rich people. You either may become rich and something will be wrong with you ever after or
you may resist your own magic, because you don’t want to be someone with whom
something is wrong. And that is an easy example. Many experience based beliefs come a lot
deeper, cluster. Second experienced based beliefs can work as unintentional magic, also
called self‐fulfilling prophecy. Third you have to know, how to end beliefs or at least
rearrange them. Because of memory, consciousness does have a structure and you have to
know, how to bring shifts into that structure and use it’s plasticity to the max.

The shieldcarrier and his abilities

The repaired and nourished shields (all 6) are seen to work as protection. Already visualizing
your shields, the very icons you made, should make you feel happy, self‐confident, strong
and capable in that order from east to north. There may also be other main feelings that you
have anchored with the shields. If so those should be felt visualizing the shields. In the end
thinking of a shield should be strong enough to cause a mood change in a second. Monitor
your shields for losing power. Keep nourishing them. If needed go for repair. You don’t have
to make the whole round all over again, usually it is enough to focus on a particular shield. If
a shield doesn’t feel right anymore or feels incongruent visually change it. Do another vision
quest for how it should look. As the poweranimal may change over time, your shields may
too. Go with the flow, don’t get flowed away.

For person that will not work as shaman or magician, the handling of shields isn’t important.
For most people working with the South and Northshield will be enough and usually the
attention will have to focus on carrying the Northshield upfront.

If you want to become a shield carrier and reach for the 7th and 8th shield handling of the
shields will be necessary. Handling of the shields, changing association and dissociation with
all of them, calling upon their power by intent, the 7th shield will slowly develop and reveal
its mystery and the opportunity to reach for the 8th. Your East and Westshield are stronger
than the North and Southshield. You are also able to define the reaction (pattern) of others
according to the shields. You can recognize soulloss or potential soulloss. You can sing a
song of power of your own shields and that of others. You can enter trance and operate in 3
worlds. You have a relation with your poweranimal(s) you can use the techniques offered.

Optional:

By the recognition of the red threads in your life, you can trust your soul as main navigator in
life. As shield carrier you are true to your shields and you do nothing that would dishonour
any of them. You don’t give, what you don’t have, you make no promises of which know that
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you cannot fulfil them in advance. You are true to your mission you have discovered in the
Eastshield and you think of ways to make that concrete and that allows each shield to shine.
You honour worthy traditions of others, integrate what they have to offer as a gift and share
yours.

AS HEALER YOU ARE ALSO A KILLER.

Before anybody screams not me, think twice. You may not have killed animals as I have for
food yet, but most certainly you have killed an animal. How was it with that last mosquito?

Each shield will have its own weapon. You journey for that and try to manifest it in reality.
Those weapons are for defence. Each shield however has its own dart. And those are for
attack.

The darts need to be made physically from wood at the end you have to insert feathers. The
darts have to be consecrated by a spell. Use any you want. Each shield may want to have
certain colors and signs on the dart according to the power of the shield. Here you look for
the dark opposite of each shield, because that is the poison you can send with the darts.
Neither the darts nor their poison can be revealed to others ever. For the body feel the best is
to practice with a real darts game.

Their use is purely astral and their intention is to cause soulloss by slow poison. The ability to
kill with those comes with the 7th and 8th shield.

Now why would one as healer want one of those? Pretty simple. You can be called to
someone who is stuck in a death struggle and needs to be released.

Now 7 of those darts come as a one time package. You cannot use them too early because
their power increases with every healing you have facilitated. You cannot use them in any
way that will dishonour your shields. But you can strike 7 times and twice deadly if you have
all shields. Why not 8 times? The dart for the body has no dark opposite; it gets regarded as
neutral and can be used as many times as you want. Compare it to a ki‐ball.

You should you ever encounter the situation that a poisoned dart is thrown at you and your
shields haven’t been strong enough to protect you from it, stay calm, but go as soon to work
as you can. Find out the poison. Induce the opposite. Avoid a counterattack at all costs. Not
because you are such a nice person and above everything, but because it will increase your
power in the long run. Strengthen your bodyshield with all you have got. Never feel too big
to ask for help.

THE FIRST SHIELD TO CARRY

The more your power increases, the more you will run into tests. In real life and in dreams.
Watch the dreams, because they usually predict something of the real life situation.

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It is hard to differentiate a crisis from a test situation. One may turn into the other and vice
versa.

But my take in this is that tests really enforce integrity, in a crisis integrity gets diminished or
lost. In a test hardship is often taken wilfully, despite other choices, in a crisis hardship gets
avoided.

Something like this. Whatever…

If your power increases, people may have stronger reactions then they usually would have
with another. Not all will be nice. So most definitely if in function you carry a shield. As
symbol for all your other shields. The first shield you make yourself. Shields are made from
metal, because they influence ki ‐energy.

The first shield is from copper. A simple little sheet of some mm will do. It may be round or
square, but if it is square you have to imagine the square in the circle. You have to take the
seize from your hands. If you make a circle with two forefingers and two thumbs, as well a
round shield as a square shield, should fit into that area. The shields gets engraved with the
directions and in each direction a single symbol of one of your actual shields. You can also
use words or make little sigils as you know to do. Your poweranimals have to be represented
too. With some actual material belonging to them, little figures or again sigils.

You can glue something on the shield, you can fix it into some other material, but you avoid
making a hole in it. And if you do, one in all 4 directions. A piece in the middle has to be
clear. Imagine the centre in which energy comes together and from which it flows out again.
Contraction‐expansion. Shields and mirrors are not worn with a chain. One uses natural
material, braided often with beads. The braid has to be long enough that the shield can hang
over the stomach. The seat of the solar plexus. Again use your creativity. But make sure
everything you use has a meaning for you and represents something. This shield is not an
amulet, neither is it a servitor. It is what it is, a shield. Not resisting to chaos, but tapping into
the selforganizing power of it. Diverting energy directed at you into way that you can use it.
If that is positive or negative will not matter.

Tasks for week 5 and 6:

Task 1: A journey to check on your bodyshield. If you experience a problem with the body
journey on that intent.

Task 2: A journey to check on somebody else’s shield. Children, partners. If you don’t dare
to act yet, just have a look.

Task 3: Rerun the soulloss parts. Ask yourself what could have been the experienced based
beliefs and formulate those in one sentence. In what kind of beliefs did they change? Again in
one sentence. That, if you haven’t done the formulation yet.

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Task 4: You journey for each weapon of each shield into the upperworld. Stay open for
surprise. What you get may not be, what you normally understand under weapon.

Task 5: Create your first six darts. Practice those astral. Your visualization of those should be
strong and they should have remote control by mind. What are your ideas on how to use them
exactly? Did you do any physical dart practice, how did it go?

Task 6: Create your shield that you carry in function. In function: While journeying and
working for others. Report that you want to share of all tasks as usual. Images of your darts
are not allowed, neither are reports on their poison.

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