Setting Intent is always important. I did this years ago so that I would be able to see/sense what I needed to during retrievals. After that it just automatically came whenever I've gone into the non-physical. I don't even think about it anymore when I do a retrieval. It just automatically happens because of my first Intent to see/perceive what I need to according to where I'm going.

Love, Mairlyn

betson wrote on Aug 21^st, 2006 at 10:37am:


thanks Vicky, I knew you could find some words!

We do expect to perceive with the five senses. I believe according to my experiences and the reflection afterwards, that the nonphysical senses are extentions of the physical 5 senses. when Bruce says "brought to my awareness by whatever ability there is"

I think I can interpret his words this way, that he is leaving the show "open" by not utilizing or depending on previous conceptions, expectations how the display will appear, but he just allows for what will come forth. this way of doing it, might be related to an experience he had with Monroe. He came to a TMI program one day, to my recollection and was full of high expectations, which were actually acting to block his otherwise open mind. Monroe perceived him correctly and dashed his expectations so to speak, in order to open him up even beyond his greatest expectations.

The way I see some explorations, in the beginning and even later, is to see pictures unfolding, vague or not, and just "play along" as if I'm actually getting somewhere, a matter of trust for me. trust in myself, trust in the hidden guides.

then upon getting to the locations set by desire and intention, I do find some of my physical senses could be involved, especially if I make sure that is a part of the intention as well, and then the experience tends to produce it's own personal verifications, or inner knowings.
love, alysia

ps. sorry it take me so long to find you here dear Bets!

well you're a fine energy moderator here no matter that u think you're coming up short, when you compare Lelands stuff he got...he is a word person anyway..some of us are better with expressing what other's can't, the way I see it. and I so appreciate his book and others.

Bets said:  What started this thread was Bruce saying/writing 
"Whenever I desire to be aware of non-physical 
energies, they are to be brought to my awareness
by whatever ability there is to sense them".
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exactly some good words. Bruce leaves it up to us again to gleam what we can, find whatever means or ability to sense and gain understanding in these areas. Bruce is the best teacher I've ever found because he always thrusts me into my own journey by saying something totally vague....    (then other times in his books, it hits me between the  eyes, so theres 2 sides to everything)
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as far as we just glimpse parts of the picture of our own journeys, its like that over here too Bets...I get frustrated when I know I'm obe, or lucidly "there" and get I'm fed but a tidbit of whats in store for me. yet we can deal with the frustration of receiving just a glimpse by relaxing and just giving thanks we even got that little bit of info, or feeling, or experience.

somehow what I plugged into insofar as gratitude, that it causes greater insight into our explorations by opening us up to accepting ourselves the way we are, whatever part of the path we are stepping on.
the day I accepted your advent here on this board was a day of gratitude, even if I don't tell you much, everyone here is special to me for their open search, which is what we all are doing.
Sometimes my affirmation is "be still and know that I am god." or to put it another way Be still and know you are already in possession of all your knowledge.

hugs! bring on the shift! we're there and don't know it! haha!