Trust is a big issue for everyone, I think, at some point.  It seems to me that as we are starting out learning these new ways of exploring reality, we're not usually automatically going to know what we're doing.  So we learn as we go, and that's the beauty of it really.  Each experience is so different and there's always something we gain from them.

I definitely agree with you that the emotion we feel, whether it's in a retrieval, dream, or physical life, is the most important part of any experience.  I hear all the time that there's feeling and then there's logic, and we need to learn to balance the two.  I tend to sometimes lean too much one way or the other and am still learning to balance.  Guess that's why I'm a Libra.   

When I read your experiences I'm envious that you're able to get so much out of them, not only the emotion but the detail.  I have a hard time letting go of trying to logically control everything, but once in a while I do get lucky and have the most amazingly emotional experiences, and that realness is more important to me than verification of facts and details.

I think that what we're able to walk away with, emotionally, from an experience changes us.  So then it's not just a matter of how we made an impact "out there" in the world, but how we ourselves were impacted. 

Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing your experiences here.

Vicky

Josh Langley wrote on Jul 4^th, 2011 at 4:33am:


Hey, I like that.  It's like primping the pump too, it gets you open for receiving what's coming. 

Even if you knew you were trying to fool yourself as a test, it still works because if something unexpected happens that you couldn't have known, or if something happens that you know you aren't making up, you get that distinct feeling that it's real and you know you aren't making it up.

I've done that before...pretended to imagine a conversation with someone, only to be stopped in my tracks to find them walking into the scene, moving, talking, and doing things that I wasn't making up!  It was like, my mind was prepared to think/say one thing, but here's this person who is doing all the talking.  The first time that happened to me it scared me so bad I literally just opened my eyes, jumped up, and left the room because I was SO shocked by what I was seeing in my mind like a movie. 

So I really like the aspect of doing pretending to open the flow of imagination and open the nonphysical senses of perception.  And like your trick/test...you just can't fool yourself.  When you're surprised at something you didn't know or expect, or you have an unexpected emotion, you just can't fake that kind of stuff. 

Thanks for the reminder of ways to overcome the blocks.  I really need to make time to sit down and try a retrieval.  Haven't done so in so long. 

Vicky

WOW great retrieval! Keep it up!