Greetings, and weclome to WEAVING WORLDS, the site of WORLD SOUL RETRIEVAL.COM

We would like to tell you about a vision, and invite you to join us

in a global expression of shamanic practice and healing. Picture links at the bottom of this page will take you onward to pages offering further clarity about this vision and its implementation on June 20th, 2004.

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BRINGING A VISION FORWARD

Frank MacEowen, left, and Timothy O'Donoghue, right

The vision for World Soul Retrieval Day quickened within our hearts,

was birthed from ceremony and shamanic practice, and soon took shape and further clarity in a weaving of visions via a sacred dialogue. With its inception an invitation went out to the shamanic community.

The shamanic community, globally, answered the call last year for the First Annual World Soul Retrieval Day.

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One facet of World Soul Retrieval Day originated with

Timothy O'Donoghue, Executive Director of The RiverWind Foundation.

He was shown a vision of the shamanic community--globally-- coming together to address the collective state of soul loss in the world at this time, within this era.

In this vision, O'Donoghue was shown the shamanic dimensions of both the tragic events of September 11, 2001, as well as other events before and after.

Another year has passed and with it have come further and further expressions of soul loss on the global level. Initially, Tim saw that, in addition to the crumbling buildings and loss of life in ordinary reality, in addition to other expressions of violence, there have been gaping holes left on the soul level in non-ordinary reality.

"What has filled these holes or this void," O'Donoghue says, "is the energy of fear. This fear has set up in the soul of the world and in each of us, affecting us to a much greater extent than perhaps at any other time in recent conscious memory."

In regards to the events of September 11th, and the ensuing military response in Iraq, these are certainly not the first expressions of large-scale soul loss within our era. For many people, however, these events have served to make us even more conscious and aware of other manifestations of soul loss within the human fabric, on the macrocosmic level.

Other wars, massacres and ethnic "cleansing," the decimation of indigenous people and their lands, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, . . .the list goes on. . .

We as a shamanic community stand at a juncture in time characterized by much loss, but also a rich and vital opportunity to address these things with the unique tools of our practices and traditions.

O'Donoghue's vision suggests an earth-wide shamanic intervention, rooted in the principles and practices of shamanism, activated and aligned for a common purpose. His vision was to initiate the practice of World Soul Retrieval Day on June 21st, 2003--a practice that can be activated annually, and in response to other events.

According to O'Donoghue's vision the collective efforts of the shamanic community working together on collective issues can have a profound effect. And, when all is said and done, this is not about a one day event. It is about a new way of being, together.

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Another facet of World Soul Retrieval Day comes from

a similar vision of bringing the global shamanic community together.

This vision quickened within the shamanic earth ceremonies of Frank MacEowen, an Irish-Scottish American wisdomkeeper, author of The Spiral of Memory & Belonging and The Mist-Filled Path, a shamanic guide in the primal Irish Earth-Spirit traditions, and founder of SOLASDANA, an experiential education program exploring the healing power of nature, nonordinary states of consciousness, and the shamanic and ecopsychological insights of the Irish tradition.

MacEowen saw the altars of various shamans, medicine people, and shamanic practitioners all over the world, being activated and "linked up" on a common day to create a "world altar." This "world altar," made up of many altars anchored simultaneously in the deep energies and "light" of primal earth, serve to focus us on not only transforming grief, but also calling toward us a powerful spiritual reality, a shared dream of the future, what he calls "the future Earth-Spirit culture."

MacEowen speaks of this shamanic phenomenon as "weaving the worlds,"--- shamans and shamanic traditions working together toward a common cause.

This Weaving of Worlds is a process he sees extending well beyond a single day. It is about collectively gaining insights for the road ahead, sharing these, and weaving shamanic wisdom across cultures and traditions as a means of promoting an earth-honoring spirituality of the future that embraces all people and our kinship with our planet.

The vision of Weaving Worlds, and the vision of World Soul Retrieval Day, have been woven together here. It is now one vision, one of luminous connections across time and space as a means of fostering a reality of healing and wholeness.

We invite you to join us, to make this vision your own. Put another way, we invite you to answer the call you have already been feeling for healing, community, and new vision.