batfink wrote on Jun 16th, 2008 at 10:18am:This is very interesting as I hadn't considered the possibility of retrieving without consciously intending to do so. First post, btw - hi!
I've had a recurring dream since my mother passed away last year. Just to give a very brief background, she had to move from her home in something of a rush to a more suitable apartment because of disability. Many of her possessions were disposed of without (I thought) much regard for whether she wanted them. The same happened after her death - lots of items she had cherished were thrown away.
In the dream I always find myself in my mother's house, or a version of it, trying to gather all these items and save them. I had thought this was me trying to deal with guilt or something similar. More recently though I keep seeing my mum in the house - she seems to be involved in a similar activity and I can't seem to get her attention, or if I do she seems very preoccupied.
Having read this account of dream retrieval it makes me wonder...
Batfink! welcome! I am wondering too, whether you are in process of a retrieval on your mom, as you said you are having dreams of gathering her things. her things are like what her spiritual values were while living her life here. she seems to be involved in leaving attachments behind, which we can do here on the earthplane before we transition however we don't always learn to do that first.
what u can do to help the retrieval along is keep trying to get her attention. Your love is what does it. is what helps her along.
for example let me run my own retrieval of my mother here by you. it has some similarities to your own mother's retrieval in process.
What makes this retrieval different is that consciously, what we call level C1 here, I had not been informed mother had passed.
this vivid dream took place as one of those unconscious retrievals that we're talking about here, does happen.
Although it was I am 100% sure, an authentic retrieval, it had to be portrayed in dream symbols to my C1 level.
My mother was also "rushing". she was portrayed as rushing through a crowd of people on a busy street, she was looking for my address, in this large city. A guide helpfully instructed her to go to city hall and get directions. However, just before she would take his advice, I spotted her in the crowd and called her over to my own apt. my station.
to really get the flavor of this retrieval, you have to remember, I had no idea she had left this world. my sister had been too grief stricken to be able to tell me this.
as I called her over I felt a burst of joy I could help her now. and what's more she was enlisting my aide. something she had never done in real life. I brought her into my apt. as portrayed as a normal apt filled with light, and somehow I knew I had created this apt and spent time here, just doing retrieving, bringing others here as an inbetween station, where other guides came to get them and move them on towards wherever they fit the best in our new homes.
I also knew I had to leave her there while I went for guides to continue the retrieval. A retrievers first job is attaining their attention. this I had done by calling out her name. symbolically illustrated, I brought her into my home, as she was lost, and rushing to find our bond of love. our oneness. love is eternal and guides.
she immediately relaxed when she found me. it was her job to return to our bond of love. she succeeded. I knew she had to wait there for a time and another symbol was supplied of Her service to life, her labors of love.
which this symbol was a thing. it was her old sewing machine. she sewed for people at different times in her life, and she loved sewing, and the people who came to her loved her, even though she wasn't the greatest seamstress, the people had a need to do business with her, to see someone as industrious and cheerful, maybe that was what the light around her head was all about.
anyway, it was the last service that one did in life which puts them in their level of the heavens, and secures their place there, which was important for me to show to mother, she had done good work here for others. and this is a spiritual principle, that we are in service to one another.
so up pops the old sewing machine and I sat her down before it and she began sewing again happily, as she was no longer out in the street, rushing around looking for an address of her daughter.
and I knew the guides would come at the right time for her, and that the apt was stocked with everything she could want in the meantime for her short stay.
then a couple months after this retrieval which had me confused, I find out later, accidentally, by looking on the internet of death certificates for my father, I found instead my mother had died and I had done a retrieval already.
she had come looking for me though, as she knew in life, I did retrievals, but she thought I was just her looney kid. after death though, looney or not, her love was strong enough to find my love for her and this is the greatest feeling I've ever had in a retrieval circumstance.
I hope you continue and succeed to bring your mom home. love, alysia