Here There be Soul-Eaters: Sacred Journeys of Nurse Healers

In Here There be Soul-Eaters a fascinating deep dive into the interviews of 11 nurse healers from Australia and other ountries Dr Martin Hemsley explores the awesomeness brokenness and ordinary joy of their mysterious inner and outer journeys of becoming and living as healers. What is revealed is a spiritual path over the edge of ordinary reality ... living in multiple worlds hard against the edge of madness.Read in these first-hand accounts as women and men come to be a healer or shaman how they drop their personal history and trust the gifted empowerment. For some it is connected to the ancient shamanism of the Earth nature and spirits and the deep transformation booms and resonates down the inner chambers and corridors of their lives. Their role too is to accept the imperative to not only serve and treat with the powers and the gods but to enter various worlds. Therein they will command the ghosts and dream figures spirit creatures entities diseases thought forms and even demons who come forward to teach challenge bedevil and to serve healers and shamans. All this is needed in many cases to participate in the healing process as healer therapist or shaman.If you are excited by these stories says Dr Hemsley this could be something that helps to open you to your nature as a healer or a shaman. This cannot be ruled out although it has not been my goal. It may well be one of the secondary processes of this work perhaps more interesting frightening and generative than its conscious intent. I dont know for sure.In the pages of Here There be Soul-Eaters you will have the chance to deepen your understandings of self and indeed of the mystery of healing in many forms.Dr Martin Hemsley is a process worker therapist and mental health nurse and offers here his rigorous exploration of the topic with his extensive knowledge and direct experience. The beautiful illustrations are by Edan Chapman an artist living in Melbourne Australia. He is a prominent member and spokesperson of the Australian deaf and deafblind community.