Retrievals, a term coined by The Monroe Institute (TMI) are helping folks get out of mind prisons or focus prisms. Human nature is such we can get stuck in a certain belief system and need a little assistance to get unstuck. It would be like a mule that has blinders on, so it goes straight ahead, not noticing there's fresh grass to eat alongside the road because the mule has not used peripheral vision in so long it has ceased to believe it can utilize this vision once more. The retriever removes the blinders with love; still, the mule believes there is only one way to go because it's in a habitual mindset. It's like being anorexic; the thin woman looks in the mirror; she's thin now, but she only sees her former self; the fat one. It takes time also to build a new self-image but time is all we have and it's all we really need.
Retrievals occur in the dream state or out of body state,(obe) or even in the conscious imagination area which is like a portal to another dimensional layer of reality. Retrievals can take place on the flesh and blood people in our lives or the nonphysical spirit being who is no longer in the RTZ or real time zone.
Retrieval is a new name for the idea of people taking care of people and it's been going on since time began by the loving random gesture of kindness which revives the spirit to freshness. When we do retrievals or acts of kindness, it is self-serving because what goes around comes around; the more you give, the more you get.
Doing retrievals made me aware that I was more than I thought I was. It was a boost to my self-confidence level in daily life.
I was reading Robert Monroe back in the 80's for the 2nd time, I forget if it was Far Journeys or Ultimate Journeys, there was a story about a little *curl which attached itself to Monroe on one of his obes. So unobtrusive was this curl Bob hardly noticed his energy form clinging on. I wondered intensely about this. Bob inquired of his clinginess and the curl then asked if it was ok to ride along with Bob's energy form to which Bob replied he didn't see the harm of that.
As they traveled on through the ethers it wasn't long before Bob became aware the curl had blinked out, He assumed the curl had found his station of interest.
What intrigued me was the thought that Bob had given the curl some help to get from point A to point B. I thought that Bob's energy field must have been larger, and able to accommodate a hitchhiker as it were. I had seen this happen in RTZ. (Real time zone) where a certain strong person attracts side kicks, supporters, people who want to learn something from the stronger, leader type persons, so they could be a bit like the goffers of the president, I didn't see anything negative about the little curl's activities.
Actually, I was proud of Bob that he would give the strange little curl a ride. Maybe Bob was like a current of consciousness and had plenty of room in his back seat for those to ride as long as they did not put a drain on him. Evidently this curl did not drain him as Bob forgot about him until he looked down and noticed the curl had blinked out; here he explains that he thinks the curl had found his belief system which suited his interests.
I thought of spirits and curls then. Wondering what these levels of being were about. Did some float out there? Looking for their place? And was it possible we could help each other, once we were in the afterlife to find our places? I was sure this was a retrieval of sorts and that Bob had helped the curl with the "lift."
I wondered what sort of person I was and if anyone would "ride" along with me should I be out there and about? I wanted to help a curl to find its place. I also wanted to help people in RTZ. But I had no knowledge of myself or capabilities in this area. I didn't think the universe was so unorderly that floaters were a possible reality on the other side. I wanted to go see what was up. The act of concentrating intently on what is true and what is not true set up an intention within my soul to see what I could find out, to access my worth in helping another if I could.
I think I almost felt sorry for the curl when maybe this was how things were and we were supposed to help each other here in the evolution of our souls through acts of charity or retrievals or just letting a curl ride along.
It wasn't long after I completely forgot about my desire to “know,” that I had an amazing experience. In the dead of night, in a deep sleep, I was awakened by some being, I call her a guide and I went with her to the scene where she said I would be tested on my ability to retrieve another. I was of course a little nervous, as I might fail to help someone or I might not be the right stuff.
I had one moment while I was talking to the retrieves where I became one with his emotions; feelings of desperate yearning. He was in a heavily charged area of this. My guide shouted at me not to merge my own yearning with his as I would surely blink back into my waking consciousness, a failure. I collected my wits and made another approach to the boy in the alley. This time I was successful in not being pulled into the terrific, terrified emotions.
I was to practice my “soothing” voice. This is what secured his attention upon me, as at first so caught up in his emotions was he, that he could not see me.
As I continued to sooth and talk to him that it was time to stop running from the cops, do his time and start over fresh, he at last stopped the running and some guides closed in and took him to another level.
Many years went by until I found this board and asked Bruce what it was all about. Bruce Moen, an author who writes of the afterlife and retrievals and how to do them, said that if I wasn't sure I had been successful, I could return in my mind to the image of the scene and ask further questions about the success or reality of this retrieval. As I took his advice to return, I saw it was successful and that I could help others and it would get easier.
I took up the study of retrievals and found it a valid pathway to help myself become more than I thought I was. As the years went on I studied A Course in Miracles, as retrievals seemed like healing miracles to me. I discovered that the human being at their core have inside a wish to do well, a wish to extend themselves to others in our unique compassionate ways. We love each other, we just don't quite know how to show it sometimes, or we're learning that as we go. And it's ok what it is. At sometime in life we may ourselves feel like a floater who needs a lift somewhere. Thank god a ride does sometimes come along! Now is the time that Speaking from the heart begins to get logical.
*curl= a nonphysical being with I am consciousness, living and having it's being in a nonphysical vibrational dimension seen or felt by those who have developed or expanded their awareness or perception abilities to include invisible to the eye beings.
