… And in this way, writing can facilitate the kind of healing shamans call "soul retrieval," restoring our own wholeness. And writing can facilitate our emotional and spiritual growth in many other ways. Through writing, we can become more able to see ourselves, and others, and all things as they are – imperfect, and yet perfectly held within a continuous process of growth. We can learn to view that process, and the constantly shifting, churning, transmuting flux of ourselves and all things, wi …