INTRODUCTION TO...
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Recovery of Soul
Fragmentation
Soul-Mind Fragmentation
Soul retrieval is a shamanic approach to healing. In the native tradition of shamanism
illness was an indication that the soul had vacated the body. The shaman journeyed into
the underworld to retrieve the soul and return it to the sick person restoring wholeness
and health. The technique can be modified and used in the clinical setting.
 Soul-Mind is the term used to define the mechanism
which records the sum total of experiences through physical incarnations of the spirit
being. It is the permanent intellect or consciousness that composes a person's character
or individuality.
In the process of treating people for the symptoms
of spirit attachment, it is not unusual to find a fragment of the mind of a living person
as an attached entity. This condition invites speculation about the other person whose
mind fragmented and from whom the fragment separated. As part of the exploration within a
session, the therapist can be alert for signs of soul-mind fragmentation in the client.
Fragmentation seems to be a common condition stemming from the many perceived traumatic
situations in life, ranging from minor to severe, real or imagined.
Life in human form can be considered a physical
experience for a spirit being. In this human experience, most people suffer trauma,
physical and emotional. Physical traumas which lead to soul-mind fragmentation can be any
bodily intrusion with a real or imagined threat to survival such as surgeries, organ
donation and transplants, amputations of limbs, beatings or damage to any part of the
physical body. Any sexual abuse such as rape or incest usually causes fragmentation of the
personality or soul-mind. Severe fragmentation with intense emotional residue can develop
in military combat situations with death caused by explosion, decapitation, and atrocities
such as severing of the genitals.
The emotional trauma caused by these physical
violations can initiate dissociation and splitting of the consciousness as a coping
mechanism. Emotional trauma following loss of a loved one, or the sight of a loved one
being seriously harmed, can lead to fragmentation. The experience of the trauma is
literally stored in a fragment of the consciousness, the subpersonality which becomes
separated and isolated from the main consciousness.
Multiple personality disorder is the result of
severe emotional, physical and sexual trauma. In most such cases extensive fragmentation
is inevitable. Further study of MPD patients reveals that some of the fragments have
indeed separated.
Some people can recall and describe incidents of
childhood molestation during which they stood across the room watching the molester
fondling their little body. One client reported leaving her body lying in bed while father
was touching her. She just went outside and sat on the roof until he went away. Many
molestation victims report floating near the ceiling during the periods of molestation. In
many cases the fragment separates only briefly and rejoins the consciousness within the
confines of brain/mind, forming a sub or alter personality the same age as the child at
the time of the molestation.
The percentage of fragmentation can range from
minor to total. There can be any number of separate fragments. Each fragment maintains a
connection with the main consciousness by a thread, a fiber of the silver cord which
attaches the soul to the body. Bodies can function as long as the silver cord maintains
its connection, even if there is total evacuation of the fragments. Evacuation can result
in coma. It also opens the way to total possession by an intrusive spirit.
The fragments continue to be connected to each
other by the silver threads, even after the being leaves the physical body in death, when
the silver cord is detached. The fragment of the soul-mind associated with a severed body
part remains with the body part, yet maintains connection to the main consciousness by a
thread.
A fragment can become partially dislodged and
still remain connected to the body. A fragment can separate and follow the person like a
balloon on a string. It can remain in some distant location or structure, it can also
attach to another living person. A fragment can actually move into the Light.
A fragment of the mind of a living person can be
attached to one or more other living persons. The condition of fragmentation is not healed
by death of the fragmented person. The newly deceased spirit, the discarnate entity, is
also fragmented. This fragmented entity can then attach to still another living person.
Thus a discarnate entity can be attached to two or more living individuals.
Another aspect of this situation provides an
interesting twist to the classic condition of spirit possession in which a living person
is considered to be influenced by the spirit of a deceased person. If the living mind
fragment remains connected to the spirit of the newly deceased person, then a deceased
spirit is being possessed by the mind of a living person.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis of fragmentation is fairly straightforward. Nearly everyone who has suffered
trauma has some form and degree of the condition. No one symptom is diagnostic, though a
combination of symptoms may be indicative.
The language of the client will describe the
condition of fragmentation. A person may describe the experience of feeling dissociated,
ungrounded, disconnected, or feeling like they are not in the body. The eyes may appear
vacant. The senses may seem muffled, a person may sleep a lot and feel apathetic toward
life. They may feel like they are "not all there," "not at home," as
if something is "missing." There is a feeling of emptiness, of having no heart,
of having an empty tube or a big hole inside.
As a client in altered state of consciousness
scans their body they may discover dark or shadowy spots, voids, holes, and empty places.
These are the spaces left by the fragmentation. The client is directed to look for the
threads that lead out from the spaces. When these threads are found some will appear
darker, some lighter. Joyful or happy episodes can cause a fragmentation almost as readily
as unhappy occurrences and the threads to these fragments may appear light, even silvery.
In all cases of fragmentation and separation the silver thread connection remains, and it
is this link that makes possible the recovery process.
Recovery of the Fragments
The trauma which led to the fragmentation is processed for the mental, emotional and
physical residues as for any traumatic event. These residues are retained by the fragment,
the subpersonality formed by the fragmentation.
The traumatic incident which originally caused
fragmentation might be located in another lifetime. The fragment can literally be floating
free or clinging to a location or structure on earth in the present time, even though the
event occurred in another era. Past life therapy can assist in recovering and healing this
fragment.
A child can be born with the condition of
fragmentation. For a young child the recovery of the fragments must be done remotely.
Witchcraft and black magic, spells, hexes and
curses can cause a fragmentation of the practitioner, witch or sorcerer. Their fragment
remains with the victim of the magic spell or curse, even though the practitioner is
deceased. There is always dark energy involved in this sort of intrusive activity. The
demonic entities must be release appropriately and the fragment sent to the Light. If the
practitioner is still living, a remote releasement of the attached dark entities is
completed and the fragment is sent back to the person.
When the conflict resolution is complete, the
fragment is invited back into the present moment. It is welcomed into the body wherever it
belongs, sometimes into the empty hole inside, often into the heart. The client will
report a feeling of warmth, peace, and a pleasant new sense of wholeness.
The term holistic stems from the word wholeness,
meaning completeness, totality of body, mind and spirit. Fragmentation as the source of
illness is an important concept in the native healing traditions. It may prove to be an
important contribution to the concept of holistic healing.
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