moving right along. Bruce recommends using the audio tape or making your own for the first time you try a retrieval, this so you avoid the distractions of the normal human mind which wanders.
a tape helps you stay focused. however if when using the tape you start to get images and your mind wanders anyway to its own area, he says to follow your own images or feelings down that road, to see where it goes; you might be led to something genuine or a genuine retrieval/experience which you realize could be real. I simply call this trusting yourself but nobody knows what trust is if they don't know how to pretend.

hmm. what am I saying? lol. I never used tapes to do retrievals. I just jumped in with both feet in the imaginative areas pretending it was all real. then it became more real than I could imagine, if that makes any sense!   when I would retrieve I thought one thing to get beyond doubt; I thought we are all One. therefore this person who is stuck in this circumstance is a part of me or could even be like a past life happening right now. therefore theres a possibility I can be helpful to myself to disengage this person from stuckness. not only that, but if this person, soul fragment, whatever is not myself in the way i am thinking, still, somewhere sometime, out of 6 plus billion earthlings existed once, and since we are immortal beings in spirit (I know this) then it could be true what I'm doing. the reason I can say this in all good faith is because everything a human has done on this planet, or whatever jam they've gotten themselves into for whatever reason, it's already been done a million times before. we repeat history here and we are not as unique and individual as we would like to assume we are and if that person over there is obviously amiss maybe a love tap would move them to a better place, or a "ready to go someplace else after a couple centuries buddy?"  of course time is different over there..its all the eternal now moment; like phyological time, or being obsessed with a project; you all know the state of mind that loses track of the orderly process of day and night, sun and moon movements. its so easy to do. did you know when a child dies here in physical they continue growing on the other side at a much faster clip than here? it's true but the guides make sure they have the right environment for that growth.
guides are everywhere working it. a lot of us die and become guides right away. after all, theres no 9 to 5 office jobs to secure. its more fun to be a guide and we need each other, face it. theres some kind of huge networking going on over there which once in awhile if I get myself in a jam   I can go find the guide connection helps me climb out. I'm not special, so I know anybody can find this network of helpful blokes. (blokes=normal persons, ordinary, man in the street, not lofty creditialed politicians) beware of politicians. lol. forgive me if you are an enlightened politician; they seem rare.

I have to go get some cat litter. love to everyone. alysia

Hi Rick..read a little more in the how to..section today and related strongly..everytime I read it I realize why I'm on this forum so much!   today there were about 80 numbered points to disgest...regarding your first retrieval. I know you've done some self retrievals so thats part of the retrieval business..maybe someone will like to try one and post it sometime. what I read is that beliefs can get in the way of especially your first retrievals and so true. so I'm remembering one of my first retrievals in relationshp to what was written. I remember seeing a vague image of a child. I didn't know it was me. she was all alone. one of my beliefs I saw right away that I thought it was wrong, and so I began to doubt what I saw. pushing in closer, not quite ready to bite the bullet I saw the image again, still wondering why a little kids sat there alone.
this is to illustrate how a vague image in the mind can expose a belief that you have to move past to get more info.  I also imagined that guides were there helping me make it clearer. this was a whopper for me of a self retrieval. good luck to everyone if they try this.

hugs, alysia

hi there Vicky, welcome to my laboratory of the ...hmm...

say, have u ever done a retrieval while you were sleeping? the reason I ask is its beginning to look like the sleep state is nothing more than turning off the robotic process of brain nuerons firing randomly so I can get on with my real life.
although thats a very simplified statement for a scientist wanna-be.

remember on star trek, the borg? they hook up to recharge themselves, but don't sleep. maybe we should try this. love, alysia

keep up the good work Vicky, retrievals have a way of having a life of their own and we need to write it down, more of us.