The term ‘soul theft’ is commonly used for this area of the soul retrieval work and comes without judgement. When it comes to soul ‘stealing’, someone is quite literally has taken or is holding on to a soul part of another person. In our society this is usually an unconscious process, it is learned behaviour. Classic situations in which soul theft can for example take place in co-dependent relationships, in situations where one person is trying to ‘control’ someone else or is trying to manipulate another person. And often times it can be innocent. For example a mother holds her new born baby in her arms and looks at this pure, happy, shining being. She feels desperate herself, her partner has left her, she is broke, and suffers from post natal depressions. Now she looks at the baby thinking ‘if I could only have a little bit of that light, of that happiness that my baby has, oh that would be so wonderful!’ And what she may start doing is pulling on the soul of that baby – pulling on its essence and it’s light – until finally the baby has to let it go. No one wins.
We cannot make use of another person’s light, we carry it as a burden with us. There is only one reason why anyone would consider taking another person’s soul, and that is that the ‘thief’ has suffered soul loss. We would not have the need to take light from another person if we are shining in our own light. There are indications that can show us whether we would be tempted to engage in soul stealing. This would be for example strong emotions such as extreme jealousy, envy, greed, anger, rage. Something happened to us that was deeply traumatising and is unprocessed, and may drive us to ‘taking’ soul parts of another person in order to control them, to feel that we have power in some way over others or over particular situations. We feel threatened by other people who are in their power and we want to bring them down. This is all learned behaviour and most people have been involved in this in one way or another. Oftentimes it happens between individuals who deeply love each other such as couples, parent and sibling etc. What also falls into this category is that someone for example is ‘giving’ you part of their soul and you accepted it. Someone who is looking for another person to take responsibility for his/her life, they don’t know how to live their own lives – classic co-dependency issues. Soul theft training is part of our Shamanic Practitioner training which you can learn more about here.