Greetings Laughingrain,
When Robert Monroe saw Helpers as energy curls and you and Mair saw cornpuffs, does that imply you were  in a higher focus level where reference to earthly attributes wasn't as necessary? Had he named the levels yet ?
Thanks, bets

Hi Bets. Maybe someone else here can tell us when he developed the focus levels..it must have been during the 3rd book? where he started phasing instead of astral body traveling. Bob did not say the curl was a helper. I think the curl was attached to Bob to receive assistance from Bob's energy field, a boost as it were to get where he/she/it was going. a purely natural thing to happen within spiritual dimension. here on earth it is sometimes referred to as sucking up, or drawing energy from another with or without their permission. we are energy beings without flesh, so you can understand this I think, we do it all the time consciously or unconsciously. that the curl asked permission to ride his field shows the curl had love inside of it (at the very least a polite contenance sadly lacking in our Earth residence to my opinion) but it was Bob who was helping it, so Bob was the helper. I tried to visualize a curl in C1. what I saw was a corn puff of light, of wispy and fluid movement, an energy construct with intelligence and 'I am' presence. but this was C1 visualization as far as the image goes, as it was Bob's experience and just my interpretation here.  adding my experience of having taken a C1 journey and becoming an orb, having lost my arms and legs on the journey, just being an intelligent, frisky orb being flying out of the body, from a fully conscious state of mind, I had no trouble to conceive curls do exist in that form, and that only within slowed down physical habitat do we take on flesh and house ourselves in that. Yet not to frighten anyone with these thoughts, guides, helpers, CW workers, they have the ability to define a form around their consciousness when they so choose, because for some of us, we truly need this..they are not real to us in other words, we are so entrenched in what we can see, feel, hear, touch and smell, that we rarely pay attention to anything outside the scope of these 5 senses.  I believe all of us have at least one designated guide who agreed to implant positive thoughts thru the journey and act as helper. I've read a lot of books where helpers will implant a profound thought into the one they have promised to help thru the journey. this thought is at once accepted as an "aha" moment. we think it came from us. I am of the opinion it doesn't come from us, unless we can say it comes from our higher self, or guide. higher self can be seen as a guide of great proportion, possessing much knowledge. I dislike using the term higher self, so I use mind within holographic capacity nowdays. higher and lower paints a picture of separation and within spiritual dimension it is a non-dualistic plane of existence. what I've learned is C1 is the area of egos and duality. our egos are shadows of our greater selves. not to say we cannot enjoy life..we can...and I do..but this world pales now for me having seen the other dimensions of life.
thats why my guides gave me the name laughing rain...they knew I'd start hee hawing once I discovered none of this world is real in comparison to my real home.

oooweee, rambling! my best to you dear, and thanks for lighting my fire once more!

wow Mair a channelled retrieval..this puts a new light on it for sure! In Bruce's book I believe he mentions this retrieval and it made him very emotional..so now I see exactly why.  thanks so much telling us about this.  hugs, alysia

I've heard the Patrick tape in the Gateway Voyage, it's really impressing. The voice of Rosalind McKnight was changing and became such emotional that it was really hurting from listening.
Spooky

Speaking of curls, Michael Newton's books speak of souls being shaped like grapes. Timber has seen them this way. A couple of times my guidance has shown me symbolic representations of groups of souls by showing several bunches of grapes with each bunch having different colors.

I visited astralpulse.com today, and found this post. Scroll down see the posters drawing of what looks like a curl.


http://astralpulse.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=c8bafad2b74cc0a3df067c537f4f44...

That's definitely not a curl- at least in my book! Looks more like a kind of nothing...or a damaged circle...
Spooky

I saw a curl in a dream once too and it looked like a cheeto. Now this looks like a jelly bean to me. LOL  Actually it does look kinda like a cheeto, but I like crunchy cheetos which are skinnier and kind of curly.  Maybe I should change my way of thinking to a cheeto looks like a curl. Maybe what that depiction of a curl is was a 'big fish' which is one who comes in with more remembrance of their life plan. Now I can't remember which book the 'big fish' was in so maybe it wasn't this book. But do you remember the 'big fish'?

Happily, Mairlyn