george stone wrote on Nov 23rd, 2009 at 12:32am:Hi,Im picking up something here.those kids may have all died in a fire on that same place where they were playing.It seems they all died at the same time.just my opinen.george
George,
I don't think that all the children I saw at the orphanage died there. Some of them did, but I think it was a small number.
I think what I encountered for the most part were aspects of children who lived at that orphanage. Sometimes a person cannot stand to experience some parts of their life. Sometimes those experiences are traumas or feelings that arise from some part of their lives.
Sometimes that person with split off a fragment of themselves, an aspect, and that fragment exists to be the part of the person who holds those feelings, traumas, etc. The aspect is "spun off" from the main conscious awareness of the person so that the aspect holds the feeling or trauma at a subconcious level. Often the person is no longer consciously aware of the trauma because it is being held subconciously by the aspect of self.
Many times we read or hear about a person suddenly remembering some terrible thing that happened to them that they had completely forgotten about. Sometimes this is an indication that the aspect has rejoined the main conscious awareness of the person. That can be a retrieval.
From the perspective of the aspect of self, it is a self aware being. It is aware of its existence and that existence of often a very narrow, limited version of the more whole person. The aspect of self may be completely unaware of the existence of the greater part of itself that it was spun off from.
For example, a child who has a parent die my not be able to cope with the feelings of loss and grief. The child may spin off an aspect of self to hold the feelings at a subconscious level. The child may then not experience those feelings of loss and grief. But, for the aspect of self those are the only feelings it is experiencing. If we are on a "mission" to do a retrieval we may be led to this aspect of self by a Helper. The child who originally spun off this aspect of self may have grown up, grown old and died. But we still find the aspect of that person's self, stuck in a Focus 23 state of mind stuck in a perpetual state of grief and loss.
That aspect will appear to be the age the child was when the aspect was fisrt spun off. That aspect will be suffering the feelings of loss and grief it has been holding and experiencing since the moment it came into being by being spun off. It will be hopelessly stuck in those feelings, not knowing or experiencing any other feelings.
Not every person we retrieve is a person who died and got stuck after death. Sometimes we are retrieving an aspect of a person's self that came into being during that person's childhood, or at other times, and is still stuck in a Focus 23 state long after that person's death.
Practicing the Art of Retrieval is so important for so many reasons for so many people.
George, thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk about this.
Bruce