Gathering Medicine: Stories, Songs, and Methods for Soul Retrieval

The shamans’ way, offers Angeles Arrien, is to “gather medicine” by reconnecting with yourself on the deepest internal level. This “soul work” utilizes imagery, reflective questioning, dream work, and storytelling to help you integrate inner and outer experiences. Thus you travel the “fourfold path” of the ancients to find your personal truth—the way back home. Gathering Medicine contains stories, spiritual teachings, and ideas for using timeless shamanic principles in your own modern-day life.