Vicky
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My thoughts on PUL:
PUL is a specific state of awareness and feeling. Once there, you're there. It is what it is. Take the idea of a light switch for instance. The light is either on or it's off. When the light is off, you can remember it, know it, think about it, describe it, tell others about it, think of ways to use it, think of all the benefits of it, etc. However, only when the light is on are you actually experiencing the light being on. That's what I mean by a specific state of feeling. For the times you aren't feeling it, it doesn't mean you aren't being as good a person as you could be, and it doesn't make the real moments of PUL feelings un-genuine.
As for the parts of speech and definitions of the words...to me, the "pure" part of the term PUL refers to the state of being that PUL is. It just is what it is, nothing else, and it's never just so-so or nearly. The "unconditional" part of the term PUL refers to how Bruce explains that PUL "opens and expands awareness automatically beyond its normal perceptual limitations". Certainly there are limits to our perception and there are things that change and alter it. There are times when our perception is this or that, depending on what we are experiencing and feeling at the moment. However, when it comes to specifically feeling PUL? It is a state of being, feeling, and awareness that is an unconditional state. While there, there is nothing blocking your perception, nothing hampering your awareness, and nothing clogging up the system so to speak.
Imagine kids standing behind a fence trying to get a bigger picture of a neighborhood baseball game. The littler kids are trying to get a peak through the cracks between the fence planks. One kid might be lucky to have found a knot hole, even if it isn't very high up on the fence. Some other kids might only get to hear the game, but not get even a little tiny glimpse of it. There might be bigger kids who can stand on their tippy toes and just maybe barely look over the top of the fence. These are all examples of states of perception and how perception changes depending on your experience. PUL's state of perception is so open and expanded that it's like a clear, perfect view with nothing blocking your way.
As far as "having PUL", if you think of PUL as being a state of mind, being, feeling, or awareness then yes you could say you "have" it while you are feeling it.
As far as sending PUL, on a most basic level it is really only a matter of having the intention of sending PUL to actually "send" anything. Ultimately you are not required, nor is it your place, to be responsible for what the other person actually receives because of it. By putting your awareness into a state of feeling PUL, then having the intention of sending that feeling to another person, it is with implied intention that that person benefits in some way from also being in the state of PUL. Sending PUL in that way has a direct and immediate effect on that person, basically whether they like it or not! There is no condition, limitation, or rules on your part as to what that person experiences, feels, or receives. You are only lifting them into the state of being of PUL. Their own perception will open and expand beyond its normal limitations. That, to my understanding, is the true nature and meaning of PUL.
Even merely just occasionally feeling PUL, not doing anything particularly special with it, just living your everyday life but feeling that feeling has a dramatic effect on yourself and those around you. I, myself, like to give credit to this state of awareness as being the thing that makes it possible for me to have all those paranormal experiences I'm always talking about...ESP, premonitions, visions, sensing someone's energy, seeing spirits, you name it. I think that those kinds of experiences are experiences I'm capable of having when my normal state of awareness is open and expanded and heightened to a certain level. However, when I'm feeling the lower perceptions or normal state of things, I'm essentially clogged and bogged down, and my awareness is not open to receiving such experiences. Personally, I see that as the pattern in my life of paranormal experiences.
I personally can even relate PUL to what Rondele initially gave as an example...a mother not being too happy with her child having a temper tantrum. Yes, while the tantrum can make the mother feel something like frustration, it doesn't mean that the mother can ONLY feel frustration in this situation toward her child at that moment. She may feel the frustration one moment, but then raise her awareness to a higher, broader level and think to herself that this is just what children do, it doesn't have to affect me or ruin my day. Losing my temper won't help and will only make me feel worse. I choose to feel how I want to feel regardless of my child having a meltdown right now. So you see, you can still see a situation for what it is, frustrating, but you can see it from the perspective of the state of PUL. What I'm saying is, the state of PUL is like a frame of mind. The FEELING of PUL, what Bruce is trying to teach us, is the experience of actually feeling that heightened state of awareness, actually feeling it happening to your awareness at that moment.
Don,
It sounds to me like your take is that retrievals people have written about here on the board are fake because there wasn't good enough specific, verifiable evidence gained to prove its veracity, therefore the retrieval itself cannot possibly have been a real retrieval. That's your line of logic?
You might as well tell someone who is standing in the room, "Since you didn't walk into the room as perfectly as you could have, you are obviously still standing out in the hallway".
As Recoverer stated, we have our experiences for ourselves, for our own growth and guidance. It really doesn't matter one way or the other whether someone can prove his own experience to you or to anyone else. The whole reason for sharing experiences here on the board, or anywhere else for that matter, is for the purpose of sharing. What other people say or do doesn't have to be perfect in order for me to learn something from them or their experience. I think that if the person reporting the retrieval had something happen in their experience that proved to themself that it was real, then that's more important than if that person can convince anyone else it was real. If anything, as Bruce says, your own interest and curiosity should make you find your own proof through your own experiences.
Vicky
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