Shamanism & Spirituality

The primary difference between "Shamanism" and "Spirituality" is that Shamanism involves working with spirit in an internally intimate yet clearly shamanic way, whereas, Spirituality may not necessarily involve any aspect of shamanic methods and focuses. However, I have adapted most of my work to fit the shamanic definition even though they weren't taught that way to me, originally. My offerings include modalities that you can delve into at any place, in any order. Any place you feel called to work with me is where we will start; the choice is up to you. Spirit is involved in all levels, and everything you share with me is confidential. If you're not sure where to start, I can do a brief reading for you at our first meeting, to discover what Spirit says would be most appropriate. For descriptions of each modality, click on links in the directory below, or see the side bar at the right----------------------------------------------------------------------->

DIRECTORY of MODALITIES

• Shamanic Healing
Shamanic Healing with the Archangels
Removing others' soul parts
Power Animal Retrieval (retrieving energy resources)
Shamanic Hospice & After-Death Communications
Psychopomp
Aura Cleansing and Depossession

• Soul Retrieval
Soul and Soul Loss
Soul Retrieval
New info! Integration and Transformation

• Shamanic Counseling
Shamanic Journeying & Spirit Guides
Soul & Diagnostic Readings
Celtic Shamanism
Ancestral Lines Blessings
Ancestral Lines Clearing
Karmic Matrix Clearing

• Spiritual Counseling
Past-Life Regression
Between Lives & Pre-Birth Instructions
Spiritual Hypnotherapy & its specific modalities
Thought Field Therapy

• Other Offerings
Weddings, Baptisms
Shamanic Feng Shui

• Shamanism & Spirituality (see below)
Spiritual Growth and Healing
On-going, with Specific Recovery Needs
Chronic Fatigue Recovery
Cancer Recovery
PTSD Recovery

Below are several long-term purposes for spiritual growth and
healing. Each involves numerous of my modalities, which
you and Spirit can choose according to your unique needs.

Spirit says: "Where 2 or more are
gathered in my name, there am I
with you." Meaning, it is not just
the healer and Spirit who brings
healing to you. It is also you! You,
working in like intent with Spirit
and Maryphyllis. To that end, your
willingness, receptivity and faith are
crucial components of our sessions.

SPIRITUAL GROWTH and HEALING

Seriousness regarding your spiritual growth and healing can manifest in various ways. I’m here to help you in any way you see fits your circumstance. Your needs may require specific modalities that are listed above, or periodic short-term work. If you find that numerous of my modalities are "calling" to you, perhaps an on-going shamanic framework is appropriate. The open-ended program below can give you an idea of what may transpire, but the pattern and timing you choose is up to you and Spirit.
• Your purpose might be for transformation of dysfunctional patterns, in-depth healing, spiritual growth, or all of that. Modalities can include anything I offer; look at other pages of this website for that information. Here’s a partial list of additional topics: Revisiting lost dreams, “rewriting” personal early history, working with your “child shaman”, obtaining new spirit guides for specific purposes, obtaining stronger boundaries and psychic protection, accessing your Akashic Records, becoming more self-empowered, increasing your self-esteem, joy, gratitude and love for all life, restoring right relationship with others, self and the universe, healing pertinent lifetimes, releasing karma patterns, finding your life’s purpose. You name it, we’ll address it.
• At the end of each session, you will be assigned “homework.” This will always be life-application of the healing, what you learned in the session and have a grasp on how to apply it in your life. In this way, you will reinforce your growth and healing.
• According to modalities you choose at any given time, our sessions will vary in frequency: weekly, every other week, monthly.
I ask you to commit to at least 10 sessions. During this time it is imperative that you commit to your own healing and spiritual growth. Without that, no amount of outer intervention will work; your free will is paramount. What you will experience will be tailored to your unique needs.
NEW! • "Package" deals are available at a lower hourly rate if you pay for a minimum of 4 or 5 sessions up-front. If you want this, tell me so; I also ask you to commit to regular sessions (1 to 2 weeks apart in most instances) with the rate you choose. Please understand that these lower rates apply only to sessions in Pittsboro or by phone.

ON-GOING, WITH SPECIFIC RECOVERY NEEDS

The following programs require our meeting regularly, i.e., usually on a weekly basis at first. We will reevaluate after every 5 sessions as to the kind and frequency of work you feel is helpful. Each of the programs below do not have a "quick fix" healing. In most cases they did not arise "over night" and have set up a lot of hidden attitudes and blocks. Plan on a commitment of at least 9 months to our work together. It is also imperative that you commit to your own healing and spiritual growth. Without this, no amount of outer intervention will work; your free will is paramount. Payment? • NEW! "Package" deals are available at a lower hourly rate if you pay for a minimum of 4 or 5 hours up-front. If you want this, tell me so; I also ask you to commit to regular sessions (1 to 2 weeks apart in most instances) with the rate you choose. Please understand that these lower rates apply only to sessions in Pittsboro or by phone.

Maryphyllis Horn, Copyright May 2008 (all of the following) • www.soulshaman.com

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)

Shamanically, we view PTSD as an “identity” disorder, with “anxiety” as a mere symptom of that. (Read “Soul Loss Symptoms” for clues as to why this is so.) We will proceed gently, with full attention on easing pain, removing negative influences from your aura, bringing peace, reattaching spiritual resources, bringing back wholeness and strengthening your boundaries.
• Sessions generally are 1 hour a week, with occasional modalities needing 2 hours.
At the end of every session, you will be assigned “homework” and it will always be life-application of the healing and what you learned in the session. In this way, you will reinforce your healing and growth. Your healing will need to involve all of the following components, although not necessarily in the order written. We will use whatever modalities are appropriate.
• Shamanic Healing, Aura Cleansing and Thought Field therapy, as needed, in every session at the beginning of your treatment, and as you request it later on.
• Counseling instruction within the weekly session, as needed: meditation, boundary sovereignty, spiritual protection, beliefs (about self, life, others, not about religion), self-esteem, self-worth.
• When your aura is clear enough and you’re ready, Shamanic Journeying will get you in touch with your spirit guides so that you can do further healing on your own at home. Spiritual Hypnotherapy (self-hypnosis) is an alternative to this.
• When ready: Soul Retrieval & Soul Transformation, to heal holes in your aura and restore personal resources and wholeness.
• Depending upon the causes of your PTSD, and when ready, we will also address any of the following that is pertinent: claiming your hidden and known beauties and that of your Ancestral Line’s, and healing and removing hidden and karmic causes of PTSD.

CHRONIC FATIGUE AND PAIN DISORDERS

From the spiritual view, these ailments may be the result of a lifetime of adapting to dysfunctional environments and relationships, both culturally and familial. Due to the longevity of their development, all levels of your being may have been affected: physical, emotional, attitudinal, spiritual. Therefore, healing requires that you also change on all levels of your being. Strong openness to change is crucial for healing. It is imperative that you commit to your own healing and spiritual growth. Without this, no amount of outer intervention will work; your free will is paramount.
• Be sure to thoroughly check out your situation with your allopathic physician and other health practitioners. Chronic fatigue and pain may have physical causes that would be dangerous to ignore. You will probably need to work concurrently with other health practitioners as you see fit. For example: massage, Reiki, acupuncture, chiropractic, allopathic physicians, holistic healers.
• In weekly sessions (about 1 hour each) we will focus on psychological, spiritual and healing issues that have given rise to the disorder. Some of these are: Stress reduction avenues such as Meditation and Thought Field Therapy, various cultures’ shamanic instructions, shamanic healing, learning to follow your heart, and beliefs work (beliefs about self, life, others – not about religion).
• Energy boosting avenues will include aura cleansing, retrieval of spiritual energy resources, and shamanic healing.
• As strange as it may seem, you will need to rediscover who you are, separate from family and other loved ones, and how to effectively relate to old situations in new ways.
• Using regression therapy we will strengthen your inner spiritual resources and at the same time discover and heal hidden causes of your illness.
• Chakra reading, clearing, rebalancing and realignment encompass healing on numerous levels.
• Soul Retrievals will restore wholeness, inner personal resources and physical ease.
• As it relates to your situation, we will address: your reclaiming hidden and known personal beauties and that of your Ancestral Line’s, and removing family-trait sabotaging.

LOCALIZED-CANCER SURVIVAL

While all of the below will help anyone with cancer, there is a much greater chance of it actually bringing permanent remission when started while the cancer is contained in a localized area of the body. I say this from my own experience. My cancer was surgically removed in 1966 and there has been no reoccurrence; I attribute that success to having innately discovered and followed all facets of the treatment pattern given below.
• It is imperative that you commit to your own healing and spiritual growth. Without this, no amount of outer intervention will work; your free will is paramount.
• Definitely continue with physical treatments, as you are advised and choose. However, to survive cancer you will need to work at spiritual and psychological levels as well as the physical. Louise L. Hay has said that the psychological components of cancer usually involve either a “victim” attitude or an extreme imbalance towards meeting others’ desires without thought of your own needs. Although my own experience agrees with that, I find it judgmental and not really helpful to healing. Rosalyn Bruyere’s assessment is much more uplifting and tangibly helpful for healing from cancer. She says that the spiritual components of this illness usually relate to not feeling a connection to Highest Spirit (God). You may have a very strong faith, follow ethical principles, know you are being spiritually guided throughout your life, yet you do not feel connected to Spirit (God). My experience confirms this.   In my own cancer-healing-prevention treatment, I attribute success to developing a strong feeling-connection to Spirit and to working with other disciplines, as described below. It is the feeling-connection on which your work with me will be focused. To that end, each component here is geared to helping you at all levels of your being, to survive the cancer.

Your Personal Private Regimen
• It is crucial that you immediately embark on a daily meditation practice. Then learn Shamanic Journeying as soon as possible. Both allow spiritual energies to surround and nurture you. Journeying brings in spirit guides who accentuate the nurturance, caring and “you are totally ok” feelings so necessary for healing from cancer. They are instrumental for attaining the feeling-connection to Spirit/God and thus are paramount for survival from cancer! Understand that this is an on-going process, and not attained “over night.” Your persistence is paramount.
• Start eating a healthy diet: based on organic foods as much as possible (90-95% at least). Eat organic whole grains, whole-grain breads and NO processed foods. Also start changing over to sweeteners that are whole-foods (such as organic cane crystals, organic honey) rather than the foodless white sugars and chemical sweeteners.
• Develop healthy regular exercise, as much as possible in nature rather than indoors. That is, unless you are instructed to stay out of the sun and/or smog.
• Daily at-home healing work with your shamanic spirit guides, Reiki and/or other spiritual healing modality.

Your Work In Session With Maryphyllis
• Cancer creates holes in the aura that attract negative energies and beings; these must be removed. To this end, frequent, regular sessions (1 to 1.5 hours) in Shamanic Healing and Aura Cleansing will remove those energies. Shamanic Counseling will be integral in understanding what’s happening and how to deal with it peacefully and surely.
• When negative energies are removed, positive Spiritual energy will be inserted. We will also either do an "energy source retrieval" or energize existing resources to help ongoing healing.
• To completely heal the holes and restore personal spiritual resources and wholeness, your own soul energy must be retrieved, i.e., Soul Retrieval & Soul Transformation.
• Deeply hidden yet active dysfunctional beliefs & attitudes perpetuate cancer. These must be uncovered, healed and transformed through Spiritual Hypnotherapy or Shamanic Journeying.
• Chakra reading, clearing, healing, balancing and realignment will aid your healing at all levels.
• As pertinent: reclaiming your hidden and known beauties and that of your ancestry’s, removing sabotage from your Ancestry, uncovering and healing hidden causes of the cancer.