Our Souls May Know Something that will Help

"We must face the brutal fact that neither religion nor science is going to save us from our self-inflicted tragedies.  Our technologies, psychotherapies, politics, and religious organizations have been leading us further everyday from wholeness and soul, and from harmony within ourselves, between each other and between us and the more-than-human world.  It is time for a radical change that can only begin with the wild reaches of our individual lives, each of us asking whether our souls may know something that will help."

This morning I read this in chapter 2 of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche by Bill Plotkin, and these sentiments have been on my heart for quite sometime, but I did not know exactly the work required or how it is to be done.  This process of meeting my own soul is as frightening as it is exciting though I am certain this is where true healing begins.

A friend of mine introduced me to a book and practice.  It is precisely the thing I have been longing for.  I've only just begun to read it, but am ready to surrender to the work.  Now whether I can do this amidst being a mother of two boys, homeschooling, and also being a wife and living with my in-laws remains to be seen.  However, I do feel called.  The wild woman who introduced me to this idea of descending into meeting soul is Yasmin Suarez Shaddox.  Please look into her work.  She led me on a journey she calls Soulskin that helped me to hear the call of my soul.  So many of us know things are not right in the world, but we feel helpless to do anything about it.  We cannot create change in the outer world until we've made changes within ourselves.  What I love about this process of Soulcraft is that we may learn our souls purpose and our gifts so that we might bring about change.  It gives me hope.  It is this hope that drives me into the descent of soul.  I've not fully begun the journey but I have been called.