heres one as I think theres some here like to read about them and I didn't want to paint my house anyway.. :) maybe after I write this... 8-)

sometimes we have broken off parts of ourselves that a retriever can be helpful in retrieving for the other person. We can call these broken off parts aspects of self.
In the astral levels, maybe if we number them as planes of consciousness, like Monroe did, we could call them anywhere from focus 10 on up to focus 26. after 26 is 27, where the reception committee receives those beings who are sent or helped to get there.

or we can call it freed up energies. unstuck, if you will.

well, a ways back I met a fellow here on the forum and resonated with him on a friendly level and decided to go see him on the spiritual planes. he seemed to have a problem, I thought I could help him, as it turned out, it was a retrieval of an aspect of him, an aspect which followed him about causing him to feel badly, like something was following him night after night, a primitive thing he wished to disown or push away.

had no idea what i was getting into. I just liked this fellow for some reason.

Here's a bit of what happened on these other levels.
I glided up to his house and he had doorkeepers. most of us have protective influences around our house of consciousness, so that nothing can enter which is not of spiritual benefit to our particular tailor made journey into life, physicality.

so I had to get past the doorkeepers to see him. There were several, one in particular, a family blood relative of his, a woman, like an aunty vibe, just people, but of protective vibe.
I explained my mission to be helpful to my friend, to set him free of something that was bugging him. I had no other ulterior motives and they could see this was true, so we can call this PUL energy. no conditions on it for it to be returned.

they liked what I said so they sped off to get him for me. In a few minutes he came with them surprised I had found him out there.
I explained as soon as I could, I had some gratitude to deliver to him for helping me on the forum we both shared. he had sent boost. boost is a form of PUL given to another as explained by TMI. it has no conditions on it either.

so we were off on the right foot, so to speak. I went into his house and noticed he kept an aspect of himself prisoner. He would never let this aspect out to relax and play and enjoy life. It was study, study, study, 24/7.

well, this would never do and so i attempted to retrieve this aspect which was kept prisoner and was portrayed as a small boy full of adventure, and made to study a book way beyond his capacity when he could have been exploring the natural world where all the fresh air was, and the wonders of nature.

I told my friend to allow the boy playtime. Study was good, but not 24/7, it was out of balance here severely.

He expressed pent up anger and threw a tantrum but at the least he did agree to think about it, what I'd said. I delivered the gratitude I had for him and he received it. The gratitude, was the PUL that had given me the key to open the door and see him.

so that's why Bruce points out that when exploring, you think of a time you felt love, just before you go off exploring or to do a retrieval. this helps prepare you for what you will discover, or helps to make the retrieval go smoother.

PUL is Pure, unconditional love. we can all come up with examples of feeling it at some time or another in our lives.

there were several more trips to see him, to see how he was doing and he was always working it hard and came a time when I was told I had done what I had intended and now his guides would do the rest. My feelings told me this, along with my own internal guidance.
and so I said goodbye and went into my life and other explorations and studies.

I had regarded myself as a failure to retrieve this aspect but my friend showed me something different, and he delivered his PUL or boost to me once more in this next example:
In focus area 10, or we can call it the astral plane where emotional bodies are found, I found myself waking up in a car. I noticed the driver was my friend. Since he was driving, this showed me it was his own idea to contact me now.
I love to leave the driving up to someone else so I can look out the window!

we smiled at each other as we drove along, feeling PUL. He said he knew I was leaving his world. He wanted to make sure I was ok with saying goodbye. He placed his open hand on my cheek for a minute and pressed. he removed his hand. the physical sensation of his hand imprint remained on my face, similar to when if you wear glasses, you can take the glasses off, yet still feel as if they are still on your head. It is an imprint memory fooling you for a minute, but a real astral imprint of a finer type of energy. The universe is like this, it will accept impressions onto it, caused by thought, caused by strong emotions.
entire scenes of etheric substantiality can be viewed by the psychic person in this manner. they are memory imprints. some ghosts seen, are memory imprints, other ghosts can be examples of folks that need retreiving if they are attached to the physical plane, they may need to move on, but cannot be forced to move on, rather, a little PUL goes a long way in retrievals.

so back to our goodbye situation, I laughed when I saw he had removed his hand and yet I still felt it to be there. "See, he said these words to me, I HAVE made an impression on you, haven't I"

He was reminding me in his way, of what was important within PUL to him. That I not forget he was a good guy, that I keep him as visually healed in my mind, despite he was too harsh with himself, he was worried he had lost me. Not so. No PUL ever extended is lost in this universe.

yes, you certainly impressed me dear lite I said and then the scene faded away.

so my point in doing retrievals, never assume that any effort is a direct failure and feel bad about yourself. Later on, you can see we are all trying to get it right, and the least effort is noted and accounted for. love, alysia
and by him visiting me this time, instead of vice versa, he showed me he cared.

I like the way Dude started writing his thread journal for us so I thought I'd follow his example for a bit to show how once you did one retrieval then everything that happens starts to look like another retrieval even if it's just a self retrieval, those are of more importance sometimes than retrieval of others.

I met a person here on the forum years ago who retrieved, or helped to start a self retrieval for me.
this story has out of body aspects to it as well partnered exloration (PE, see PE thread)
aspects, as well as some group dynamics aspects. This was not phasing and not lucid dreaming, it was more along the lines of the traditional out of body experience which Monroe did in the beginning book of his. Nonetheless, it was important to me.

I am trying to give forth with some commonalities to these out of body or phasing explorations, to tie in the different reasons we may develop this art, and advance to Monroe's phasing, upon the crook of a finger, so to speak. I hope others may come forth and share their own thoughts, and maybe we can get something from all the talk, maybe not, but looking back, this sort of thing has been my life's work. aint much, but gotta start somewhere!

My buddy, RM, I'll call him, ironically has the same inititials as bob Monroe but it's not our founder of TMI. I was interested in this poster as he does hospital retrievals because he works in a hospital and can see and hear the spirit leaving the body as well he's spoken with the souls of the babies getting themselves born!
You'll be hearing more from him later when his book gets here.

For sure I'll be rooting and hooting for him.  Here's how, or why, I think my particular experience was induced or set up, by my desire or thought. When I first read him, or even when I read anybody I get a buzz whether the person is truthful or not, sort of if they speak from the heart or just the mind. I find most people here are truthful. I was interested in learning more about retrievals, so I was interested in what RM had to say as I got that buzz sensation.
As I got the buzz, I thought a thought/desire. It was just a passing thought but it got created in that moment my experience with him out there. All I thought and felt as I read his posts was "wow! I wish I could meet him someday!"
Well, I did meet him; out of body and he shared with me some group interactions (individuals from this forum that he calls "they or them.")  he shared what they said to him with me, as well some forays into focus 15, where past and future interconnect.

I'll post more tomorrow about this retrieval where he came and "collected" me bringing me to some truth about myself, with an unconditional love. meanwhile, a word from our sponsor!
the following is written by Robert Monroe:

There is no beginning, there is no end,
  There is only change.
There is no teacher, there is no student,
  There is only remembering.
There is no good, there is no evil,
  There is only expression.
There is no union, there is no sharing,
  There is only one.
There is no joy, there is no sadness,
  There is only love.
There is no greater, there is no lesser,
  There is only balance.
There is no statis, there is no entropy,
  There is only motion.
There is no wakefulness, there is no sleep,
  There is only being.
There is no limit, there is no chance,
  There is only a plan.
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note from moi to the above: if any of the above causes a twinge of resistance, that's because it's supposed to!  :) the more you object to something, the more there is in it for you to look at, the reason why you object. once u find out why, in your own belief system, you are well on your way through your own personal journey.

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