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“Everything in your dream means exactly what you think it means.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation

“Most people think we believe our experience. This is not true; we experience what we believe.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“The earth will support anything that supports life. What I have found after a soul retrieval is that one cannot "numb out" anymore. Each and every one of us must make personal and planetary decisions to stop abusing life. Whether a person a has to give up an abusive relationship, take a more active political role, or increase awareness of how we continue to abuse our environment, we all now have to be responsible. Being responsible means responding to what is needed. We find a need to wake up and change our reality to a stance of power...”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation

“The earth will support anything that supports life.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“Life is just the seeds of light.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“I Creation and Union Imagine yourself sitting in a quiet place in nature, being still and silent inside yourself. Breathe in the power of the universe. Breathe out the power of universe. Breathe in the love of the divine. Breathe out the love of the divine. Breathe in the light of the Absolute. Breathe out the light of the Absolute. As you inspire the power, love, and light of the universe, you exhale sharing love and light with all living beings. As you breathe, experience yourself expanding into the eternal light of all life. You are not a separate entity, you are one with all that is. Imagine.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins

“There is also a paradox that you have to dance, and it can be a challenging dance. The dance is to engage in creation and dreaming practices while letting go of the attachment to the outcome at the same time.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life

“Consumerism has become a hypnosis that keeps our culture immature, as it keeps us overly focused on ourselves and on material desires, instead of on cultivating deeper soul richness. Corn”
― Sandra Ingerman, Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth

“Or we return from having major surgery and do not feel as if we have come fully out of the anesthesia.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a mind and thoughts, but I am not my mind. I have emotions and feelings, but I am not my emotions.”
― Sandra Ingerman, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation

“The ego is reaching for help while the body holds the truth.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Walking through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss

“The basic premise is that whenever we experience trauma, a part of our vital essence separates from us in order to survive the experience by escaping the full impact of the pain.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“individuals dissociate as a defense mechanism when “the trauma is so great and the fear so terrifying that one needs immediate relief.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

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― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“Imbalances or displacement in the spiritual essence of a living being can cause debilitation and disease.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“I consider it to be our birthright to practice direct revelation and to be in contact with our personal spiritual guidance. Today, we might not practice the same way as people do in native cultures, and it is vital to bridge the ancient ways so that we can work within our culture. As long as we use discipline and stay focused on our spiritual path, we do not take away from the power of the work. While you might not have been born with the destiny to be a shaman, it is your responsibility to live a spiritual way of life. The practices in Walking in Light teach you how to do this.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life

“Many people in our culture only focus on making changes in the outer world. Well, of course we need to come up with plans for our life, but we need to balance out our rational planning with exploring our inner world and learning how to cultivate a rich, peaceful, and powerful inner space. We need to move from outer visioning to the power of working with our inner visions. We need to wake up out of the collective trance that teaches us to only focus on the material realm. It is time to explore how to open ourselves to new dimensions of life.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life

“There is no way to take away the pain of another. What we can do is hold space for them, such as by performing little ceremonies for them like lighting a candle for them each day, thinking kind thoughts about them, or imagining a day when they will be happy. But we can’t take away their pain.”
― Sandra Ingerman, Walking through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss