Power Animal Retrieval



When you start doing shamanic journeys it can all be a bit overwhelming and you can get confused and forget what you are supposed to be doing. This happened to me when I journeyed to meet my "Power Animal" for the first time on October 1st 2018 (link to post). I did that journey early in the morning and later in the day I realised that I had forgotten to do the Power Animal Retrieval as described in Paul Francis book "The Shamanic Journey".

Here is my journal entry from later that same day:-

I realised that I had forgotten to do the power animal retrieval on my last journey (earlier this morning). I had left Rabbit in a hurry when the drumming "call back" started.

I lay down again and started the drumming track (short 12 minute track) and set off to my Axis Mundi dressed in my usual monks habit with my walking staff. I entered the tunnel and descended - it was the same as earlier, with crystals and flints in the walls near the exit.

As I came out into the Lower World, Rabbit was waiting for me. We skipped and jumped down the slope to the lakeside, then we danced together like old friends (or lovers) to the beat of the drum.

Rabbit pushed me down onto my back and jumped onto my chest. Rabbit began to dig into my body, working on my stomach and intestines ( I hadn't asked for healing or gone with any intention of being healed but I have been suffering from chronic, painful indigestion - I sensed that Rabbit knew this and was helping me). Rabbit began kicking dark matter out of my body and replaced it with a sort of green moss, some of which he chewed up first.

When the call back started I remembered that I was there to perform the "retrieval", so I picked Rabbit up and eased him into my Heart space. It was an amazing, wonderful feeling of warmth and happiness. Rabbit and I returned to the normal reality of Middle World together.

Postscipt :-

After the journey I looked up "moss for digestion" on Google and found that Irish Moss or Carrageen (sea moss) is useful for digestive problems and for clearing mucus from the system. I ordered some and found it very helpful. My digestion has become more robust since the healing and after taking the moss for a few weeks.

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