Learning Astral Projection Retrieval From John L. Brooker
I came across the books of John L. Brooker some years after my own practice was underway but I still found the experiences of other psychics and mediums to be of continuing interest, usually to see and perhaps learn from their methods and approaches. John grew up and out of the spiritualist tradition but his experiences and explorations are slightly beyond the level most spiritualists are comfortable with. His take on rescues/retrievals is worth quoting here.
(1) One man who had been blown to bits could see pieces of himself blown all around him. I told him I could reassemble him and proved it by a wave of a hand. I usually tell a person it is in their power that makes these changes not me, for once free of earth limitations we can manifest ourselves as we wish.
(2) A woman came through to me once, crying and saying she could not understand what had happened. She was trying to reach her son who was swimming. She said she had jumped into the water after him because he had trouble. He said he was very tired and could not swim against the current. She said she kept reaching for him but could not make contact. I explained to her that she had drowned and I could pull her from the water. I turned her into the light and she saw her son waiting for her there.
(3) “The only hell is a personally created one. I have actually had people come through who are looking for hell, thinking that is what they deserve. One man came through whom thought he was in the pit of hell. Whenever he tried to get out hundreds of hands were pulling him back. I told him I could release him and simulated that I pulled him out. I told him he was now free and asked him to help by telling all those in the pit that they could follow him into the light. He went one to those who were waiting for him, followed by a stream of others who had witnessed his release.”
(4) Brooker notes that despite all the love and careful organisation of the spirit world and its guides, some of the hardened criminals are difficult to convince that there is another way open for them to outgrow the past. Their anger is like a barrier around them and they do not want to hear about love and a new life.
(5) Brooker speaks of an angelic looking nun who specialises in child rescues. When the children see her they all say how pretty she is and ask if she is an angel. Although ‘Sister Mary’ is the one who always comes for the children Booker contacts, she has told him that there are hundreds of helpers for that task. What always amuses him is that when she comes for a four year old she is surrounded by four year olds and if a teenager she is surrounded by teenagers, which always seems to ease the transition.
(6) In some situations he can “show the person being rescued a victim who has been hurt by his behaviour. The victim may be waiting for the one who hurt him, not out of revenge but with love and forgiveness. Other times when the guilty person is confronted by a victim he may have difficulty accepting the situation. The guilty one will first deny any involvement; then he will admit to what he had done and then may go to the one who is waiting for him.” Often the sense of guilt is “so strong he will still refuse to admit involvement.” In such cases he “sends them to another, perhaps a relative or guide who can help.” He then observes “how amazingly fast a personality change can happen. On leaving this plane the years seem to drop away and we begin to forget much of our experiences. Memory is kind and the past becomes like a dream, just like out pasts here.” Despite our ‘total being’ being enriched by the varied experiences the details are soon outgrown. And elsewhere he makes it plain that by ‘varied’ he means the many lives necessary for growth.
(7) Some rescue cases are more funny than tragic. “A man in a nursing home was panicked as he thought he couldn’t move.” He assured him “he could get out of the bed anytime he wanted” and the assurance worked. When he was turned to the light, he said “Oh god I thought I was in trouble before. I was married eight times and there are seven of them up there looking at me. What do I do?” Booker commented: “What do you think they’ve been talking about up there? Go and enjoy the reunion.” He said “I was always good to them, there was always plenty of money.” Booker continued that “they would not be there if they didn’t want to be.” All he had to do “was go over to them and all would be resolved.” Another time a bank robber was “holed up in a cabin with his loot” without realising “he’d been shot and killed by police.” At first he resisted the intrusion, suspecting Booker was trying to steal his bags of cash. Then he suspected he was a cop in disguise. Finally convincing him “he was not any of them and that money was useless in this next world,” he wanted to give Booker all the money. In other cases men will remove their money from the bank and bury it somewhere that the wife cannot find. Booker tried to convince them to communicate the hiding place, annoyed at all that cash rotting under rose bushes, but often the negative attitudes cannot be overcome. Generally Booker finds that along with possessions like homes and jewellery, money is the worst of attachments. In the astral some who have partially transited take their materialism with them and finding thought to be so useful make “beautiful clothes, cars, furniture and jewelry and will try to protect them from intruders like me.” One man “surrounded his hiding place with a pit of snakes and was amazed that I could get in. I told him snakes were in his imagination but not mine.” Another man came “roaring through like a lion, thinking he was keeping a number of children away from his property. He imagined they would run away as he roared which they did. Brooker told him he was “creating the whole scenario and it would go on forever unless he changed his attitude”, which eventually he did.
(8) Brooker often acts within a rescue circle: “One day during a regular sitting the medium was surrounded by a beautiful light. A soft spoken voice identified itself as a nun who had sinned, become pregnant and committed suicide. This meant she had a triple burden, including a baby’s death. She wanted confession, punishment and absolution so I sent her on to Father Ralph to take care of her.” Father Ralph, as you can imagine was another of his spirit helpers who specialized in such cases. Then there was “the hit-man for the mob who had died in the electric chair” and didn’t get why he was still around. Booker reminded him he was speaking to him and thus could not be dead and likely all the folk he’d killed were all alive in the spirit world. When Booker “tuned him in he saw a crowd of people he had killed and wonder if “it was alright to go there”. Brooker suggested he could confront them or go to some family members who were also waiting. Then he adds: “He didn’t think he deserved much, and I had to reassure him that he had a different understanding of life when he did what he did back in the days of prohibition.” For me this indicates an attitude I’ve seen quoted in various documentaries where gangsters, having served their time, will say it’s all part of the lifestyle and they expect as much. Very much that ‘live by the sword die by the sword’ attitude and who would be surprised to find out they’d all had past lives as mercenaries, pirates, slave traders and the like?
(9) Brooker also makes the point that it is “those on earth who had little or nothing, and then finding they can fulfil their desires, do so I until they can outgrow their need for material things” before Booker convinces them he will “look after their goods while they go to the light and talk to someone they know”. This reminds me of the many pretty bungalows, cottages and stylish condo developments one can see almost anywhere in the astral planes, and while not sumptuous they are the slice of luxury poor folks could never attain on earth.
(10) Religious teaching hampering transition: “Many Catholics who die in air crashes or in isolation cannot receive last rites. However, Father Ralph can take care them. Brooker also comments on all the folks who are “waiting in sleep until Jesus awakens them”. As I have myself, Booker has toured the dormitories where they are housed and “was told to be quiet”. He quickly “made them all wake up and told them I was a messenger from the Lord and they were to go to the light to meet him and it worked beautifully”. Echoing an experience I have had in graveyards, Booker reports that some “ministers tell their flock that they must wait with them in the afterlife until they are allowed to go to heaven. Sometimes hundreds are waiting. Dialogue thus: “Minister: Have you come to be saved? Booker: No, I have come to save you. I am a messenger from the Lord and I would like to address your flock and tell them to tune into the light and go to their loved ones there above you. There is not need for you to all stay here. Minister: Don’t listen to him he is a heathen.” Some will “hear the message and start going over. The minister will start screaming at his people and me, but I will eventually calm him down and get him to see the error of his ways.” One actually did and said “Oh god what have I done?” Booker helped him to “see he had acted in good faith”. My own experiences are, by this standard, only partially successful: some move on up and others do not. The belief system they died with is stronger than the one I’m providing, and you know, I can live with that.
Brooker provides many more experiences, some in the obe state. These are but a few.
