Coming Alive

Scent as Soul Retrieval and other Sensory Oracular Gifts

The other day, I was dousing myself in citronella to keep the sandflies at bay when a strong memory from the past flooded through me. It was not only a memory in my mind’s eye but a full-body memory. The hairs on my arm stood up as sparkly tingles washed through, my heart warmed as if oriented to the sun, and my body deeply relaxed.