Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Chapter 17D-Soul Retrieval
The three of them had a lot on their minds as they broke up the meeting and went back to join the others at the drumming circle. Tobal felt thirsty and went looking for fresh brew and light conversation. Later he even joined in with the dancing although he kept his robe on. So did many of the others as the wind was chill and it was several degrees below zero.
He and Crow said their goodbyes and left the circle early the next morning after the usual hugs and kisses to the girls. The days were getting shorter and there was only six hours of light for useful travel. As they snow shoed their way back to Tobal's winter camp they talked about Crow's initiation.
"They are worried about you", Crow said to Tobal suddenly.
"Who is worried about me? What are you talking about."
"The Lord and Lady. They came to me during my initiation and said they were worried about you. They said you have a piece of your soul missing and you need a soul retrieval."
"What is a soul retrieval?" Tobal asked puzzled.
"That is when a shaman goes on a soul journey and brings back a part of someone's soul that has been missing or stolen from him or her. My grandfather trained me in the spirit journey method and I can do this for you. The Lord and Lady want me to do this for you. You will let me do this won't you?" He implored looking searchingly at Tobal.
Tobal was a bit uncomfortable talking about things he didn't understand. "I need to think about it ok? What else did the Lord and Lady have to say?"
Crow was very excited, "They told me to tell you they are still alive! They are very weak and not in good health but they are alive. They are trapped somewhere and can't free themselves. They use the energy generated by the circle to communicate with us. Not many can see or hear them though. Usually it is only the High Priest and High Priestess that can see them or hear them.
"I have never heard them or felt them so strongly", he told Tobal with tears in his eyes. "We do not have circle like this at our village. Our circle is different and they don't come to us as strongly. They showed me my parents, Tobal. They let me speak with my parents."
"But I thought your parents were dead?", Tobal asked slowly.
"They are in the summerland", Crow replied. It is where the spirit goes after the physical body dies. My parents are happy there but they miss me and my sister. They told me there is danger for all of us coming soon and we must be prepared. The Lord and the Lady will help us if they can but we must learn how to talk to them and listen to what they have to say. I need to teach you and your friends the ways of the shaman so you are ready when the time comes."
Tobal didn't know what to say. The thought that his parents might still be alive stunned him as did the thought that Crow was able to carry on conversations not only with the Lord and Lady but with Crow's own dead parents as well. He felt them now, the Lord and Lady, at the back of his mind urging him to believe. Oh, how he wanted to believe but did he dare? These thoughts troubled him as they made their journey home through the bitter cold and snow.
He spent the second month with Crow gaining advanced knowledge in the art of survival and craftsmanship. Crow had grown up in a community that lived a primitive life close to nature. His training had went beyond simple survival into quality of life areas such as art and decorative clothing and functional tools such as hand axes made of flint with razor edges and the knowledge of how to sharpen them. There were fun things too such as games, drums, whistles, flutes and other items carved from wood.
In the evenings he worked on the small carvings he intended to give to his friends at Yule. He also very much improved the look of his wardrobe seeking to match the stylish clothing Crow created so easily from the leathers and furs they had caught over the past two months.
Mostly though, in the evening he listened to the stories of the old ones and of the Lord and Lady of the Oak. Crow said the Lord and Lady talked to him at times during circle at his village. They taught him things and protected him in the wilderness. He said they also talked with his grandfather and his grandfather also knew they were still alive but it was not time to free them yet.
Tobal asked questions and tried to make sense of as much of it as he could. Crow offered to teach him special meditations that would prepare him for the time when the Lord and Lady would talk with him also. Tobal accepted gladly and each night they would practice meditating and other shaman practices Crow felt were important.
"The soul has many parts", Crow told him one evening. "There is a physical part, an emotional part, a mental part, and a spiritual part. Each of these parts must be strong and complete and full of energy before the soul can travel. Howling Wolf, my grandfather, developed all the parts of his soul until he was filled solid and completely like a crystal. His soul was so hard and packed with energy it filled his physical body until it too could travel and he could be in two places at the same time. The Lord and Lady called this bi-location and wanted to learn it from grandfather.
"Grandfather told them it was an ancient mystery of the shaman since the dawn of time. Grandfather knew about the sanctuary training program that your parents created and he approved of it. He said it helped to develop the physical and emotional parts of the soul but not the mental or spiritual parts of the soul. He told your parents the soul could not travel until all of the parts were completed and filled with energy. That was why things were not working right for your parents in their research.
"Grandfather offered to teach them the ways of the shaman to build the mental and spiritual parts of the soul and they accepted. He came to them in secret and taught several of them in a secret meeting place near the lake. Soon the Lord and Lady were more powerful than Howling Wolf. They were scientists and discovered ways to use machines to force even more energy into the soul and physical body than ever before."
Crow continued his story as Tobal listened in fascination."Grandfather had only been able to bi-locate or spirit travel to the point where he could be in two places at once. His spirit body that traveled was made of energy so tightly packed and compressed that it could be seen and felt like a physical body. It was a physical body made completely of energy. When he traveled he used this physical body of energy and left his normal physical body at home sleeping.
"The Lord and Lady used machines to develop this process to the point where the actual physical body would disappear and appear some other place. Later at the secret meeting place they were able to take others with them on journeys to strange and wonderful places and bring things back with them.
"Grandfather says he still goes on journeys to some of those places he visited with the Lord and Lady. He has taken my sister to some of those places too but it is very secret and he says I am too young to go on such journeys yet. Now my sister goes on journeys by herself without grandfather and he worries about her because the journeys are dangerous. He says my parents and the others at the lake were killed because they knew these things and that if the evil ones knew about us they would try to kill us as well."
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