I always heard or read about others receiving validation for a retrieval they assisted with. I would like to share a very powerful validation that happened to me.

In early 2004 I was traveling for a job interview flying to California. While on the plane I settled back and relaxed, thinking of catching a nap during the 3 hour flight. I was having trouble sleeping so I decide to try a retrieval even though there was some noise and activity around me. As soon as I sent out my intention, an image of a soldiers helmet came vividly into my minds eye. I relaxed and went with the flow. I was immediately taken to a desert area and was riding in a military vehicle. Beside me was a soldier that kept calling me sir. He was very anxious telling me he was going after the enemy to protect his men. I received the knowing that this soldier had been killed by a road side bomb that went off, killing him and the men riding with him. He told me all he remembered is a flash of light and the next thing he saw was his men laying on the ground dead or injured. He began issuing commands to create a perimeter to protect his men. As we where riding together he kept frantically saying, "sir, I need to protect my men, sir I need to save my men". I must have appeared to him as an officer or someone in command. In order to get him to refocus, I told him his men needed him and they where at the hospital now. He stopped and agreed. I asked him some questions as we traveled, he told me his name and that he was a 1st Lieutant in the Marines and that he was married for 2 years with a 1 year old daughter named Percilla. We arrived at the tent hospital where a nurse (helper) started to tend to his wounds. I felt I could leave him there with the helpers.

I accepted the job in California and moved there 2 months later. One evening my wife and I where walking in our new neighborhood when I glanced up and saw on the back window of a parked pickup truck a military sticker. The sticker was a Marine symbol with a cross inside. The sticker had printing that said In Memory of and it listed the soldiers name that I had done the retrieval for several months earlier. I stood with my month open and chills running through my body. This was unbelievable. This was physical validation. I stood there very confused, wondering if I should go up to the house or keep walking. How would I confront complete strangers about a loved one killed in war. I decided to give thanks for the validation and to leave the family alone.

Even now I give thanks for this validation and the continued inspiration that it provides me to do retrievals.

"our journey has no end only great beginnings"

Mikeel

That's wonderful, Mikeel !

It still provides a chill !
Please thank your Oversoul for providing us all with that inspiration!
Many thanks to you for sharing it.

Love, Bets

I suppose it is a good decision to leave a family in peace.....but, I would have been tempted to send a very carefully worded anonymous letter. Even if they didn't understand it. Promising not to contact them again.

But, wow. I can only imagine how you must have felt. I think I would have felt like the world was spinning....Oh, but it does!

Wow.

Thanks for telling Mikeel!

Spooky