Jenny Funkmeyer’s

DIY SOUL RETRIEVAL

A SPIRIT GIVES ME
SOUL RETRIEVAL

O ne of my daughter's classmates visited us at our house.

He gave me a book his mother wrote, saying, "My mom
is strange like you. I think you'll like her book." I said thanks and
took the book. The boy was not memorable, of average height
and looks. I don't remember much about him. My daughter said
he was not a particularly close friend. That was the one and
only time he visited our house.

The book was Gifts for the Soul by Dawn E. Clark. The
book was about how spirits led Dawn to Soul Retrieval – a
technique of going into the past to bring home your lost soul.
Dawn began the book with a moving account of her
communication with her father after his death. The most
interesting part to me was the evidence for Dawn’s belief that
her father had actually reincarnated as her son.

So...in a way, Dawn's father came to me in the body of his

grandson to give me Soul Retrieval. I know, I know, this sounds
very fishy.
 After reading it, I realized Soul Retrieval is something I had
been doing without knowing that it had a name. Dawn had
developed a method for retrieving lost soul fragments using
what she callssoul images, which are different images that you
draw on a piece of paper, look at, and rotate, and so on. I tried
her method but it didn't resonate with me. I felt as if this was
her method of doing soul retrieval, so I didn’t actually follow it.
With her method as a baseline, I devised my own way that
worked for me. DIY, my way!

The night I finished the book, I was pretty excited to try it

out. Synchronistically, many traumas had arisen for Otis. I
called him in and I put Otis into deep meditation. He started to
see images of a past life. We recovered one soul fragment, then
another, then another and another. The defining moment was
when he said, "I see someone, his name is..."

Otis and I said the name "Philippe" at the same time! Okay,
this is strange. You don't have to believe me. But the truth was
clear to me and now I present the truth of soul retrieval to you.

"May you walk a blessed path as you fill

your life with love and light."
-- Dawn E. Clark
INTRODUCTION E very time you encounter trauma –
whether in this life or a previous lifetime –
a bit of your soul goes into shock and proceeds
to chip off and hide. This bit of lost soul
becomes stuck in your psyche, replaying this
trauma over and over. For all of eternity, the
soul bit relives the scene until it is one day
retrieved and reintegrated into the whole.

As an integral part of your soul’s journey,

you voluntarily experienced the trauma in order
to gain greater wisdom and compassion. Before
the trauma occurred, you might have been
more innocent, happier, or more vital. The
process of gaining wisdom wore down your
innocence, happiness, and vitality. You're wiser
at the expense of your innocence. In other
words, you've lost a part of your soul.

If you’ve lost a bit of your soul in the past,

you are incomplete. You're like a car that
doesn’t function at maximum capacity because
you’re missing some parts. Try driving
sometime without a battery or radiator! The
same applies to the missing piece of your soul –
you need to get it back.
 There are several
clever components at
work in the
soul retrieval process.
 ➊ NLP(neuro-linguistic programming)
THE COMPONENTS
T he general idea behind NLP is that each of
your memories has a specific home in your
brain. When you retrieve a particular memory,
your eyes go to a particular place to access it.

TRY IT NOW!

Think back to a childhood memory of your

mother; notice where your eyeballs are pointing.
Now think of an embarrassing memory from your
adolescence; notice where your eyeballs are
pointing now. Two different locations! Every
memory has it own place!

NLP is the process of changing a memory by

relocating it. So you can either shift a bad
memory to a new location or replace it by putting
a new memory in its place!

I'm no NLP expert, so I will not go further on

this. Suffice to say, when we retrieve the lost soul
bit we are in effect replacing where that lost soul
bit lives in our brain. Simple and brilliant! You're
not stuck in one point-of-view; you have the
benefit of many angles of understanding.
 ➋ Memory Loop
THE COMPONENTS
W e call our thinking a process a “train of
thought” because it just goes on and on
– one thought after another without stopping!
Memory is on a circular loop; it goes on and on
and then it goes back on itself and repeats,
eternally. It doesn't even change in form or
content; it simply replays itself over and over
again. That’s why if you have a bad memory and
don't deal with it, it just comes back to haunt you
over and over again with exactly the same
details, emotional content, feel, smell, and look.

DIY!
Let’s turn our
lives into
cinematic
masterpieces!
This is why in soul retrieval we freeze the
scene into a 3D holographic still image. The
memory loop can only stay in tact while the
memory has not been fully examined. In soul
retrieval, weI effectively end the memory loop in
one fell swoop.
 When you feel you're ready to deal with it, you

THE COMPONENTS can start to play the scene in slo-motion – let it

move forward slowly, one frame at a time. You
can roll it back and forth – go forward and
backwards. I was a video editor and I've often
done this to analyze a scene. This technique
helps me become aware that this scene is under
my control. This is one of the chief benefits of
soul retrieval – taking a memory where you felt
helpless and bringing it back into your control.

As a filmmaker, I've always understood that

although the script, the direction, the acting, the
production, the music, and the art, all play a
major role in shaping a film, a film is really made
by the editor in the editing room. When you live
an incident in your life, it's like a film being shot.
However, the final say is still in your hands when
you edit it in the editing room of your mind.
 ➌ Talk Therapy
THE COMPONENTS
T alking to your lost soul, one-on-one, heart-
to-heart, is like hiring the best
psychoanalyst and having as long a session as
you like. You can stop the session if things get
too out-of-hand and then come back later. No
appointments necessary. You know yourself
better than anyone! Trust yourself! DIY.
In this section,

3
I’ll share

kinds of
soul retrieval techniques

that allow you to

revisit the traumatic event
give the scene new meaning
reintegrate the soul fragment
 ➊ Gather the Missing Pieces
THE TECHNIQUE
In meditation, relax and allow the
memory of a past traumatic event to
come to you.

Freeze the most impactful moment into

a three-dimensional still image like a
hologram.

Look for the lost soul bit that is hidden

in the scene. The soul bit is the exact
replica of the body but with less density.
She or he could be anywhere in the
frozen scene. The telltale sign is she or
he is moving and not frozen. The lost
soul bit is in the scene but not part of
the scene. Usually the soul bit is hiding
behind the body, standing over it, or up
in a tree, but she or he could be
anywhere.
THE TECHNIQUE
Interact with the soul bit. Introduce
yourself, ask questions, and explain the
situation. Use your imagination. Take
your time. Gain the trust of the soul bit.
Invite him or her to examine the scene
with you.

Together with the soul bit, walk around

the scene. View the people involved,
including your own body, from different
points of view. This is very important:
see things from a new perspective. Keep
communicating with the soul bit and
exchanging views.
 ➋ Bring the Lost Soul Home
THE TECHNIQUE
Explain your current life. Tell the soul bit
how she or he can make your life whole
by reintegrating into wholeness with
you. Invite the soul bit to come home to
your current life with you.

Listen to the soul bit's concern. Make a

deal regarding what she or he will do
with you in the integrated whole person.
Obtain the soul bit's agreement to come
home with you.

Together, walk through a tunnel of time

from the past back to the present
moment where your body sits in
meditation.

Hug and allow the soul bit to merge into

you and then merge back into the body.
 ➌ Integrate into Current Life
THE TECHNIQUE
This is the easy part. There is no action to take,
nor things to remember. It's done. You've
retrieved your lost soul. Now, trust the process,
and move on to living life. There is no need to
check up on the effectiveness of the work. Indeed
you will find yourself doing things differently.
Sometimes immediately and sometimes it might
take a while. Be patient; trust the process.

Once integrated, the lost soul bit will rarely split

apart from you. You will live as a whole. But if a
situation occurs that is very much like the
traumatic past and you do not react in favor of
yourself, the lost soul bit that you've retrieved will
emerge again, caution you, and give you advice.
This is actually a big benefit of the work. Once
you've learned to deal with the past in new
positive light, the soul bit will not be separated
from you ever again.
 I will now share with you
three examples of soul
retrievals: beginning with a
childhood soul retrieval
and then moving into a
past life and then
future self soul retrieval.
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL
I t's a nice day at work and suddenly my boss
comes into my office. He yells at me for not
doing something right. My face turns red and my
temper flares up. I swallow my pride and keep my
mouth shut.

I feel like a seven-year-old being scolded by

a teacher... ah!

Myself as a seven-year-old...

ah...this thought triggers a memory...

When I get home from work that night, I find

time to sit comfortably, turn off the phone, close
my eyes, and go into an empty state of mind:

meditation.
 ➊
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL
Gather the Missing Pieces

A scene presents itself: In a classroom

during my childhood in Hong Kong, a little
girl stood with her head hung low. I recognize the
little girl as myself in second grade. I'm being
punished for "talking too much" in class. The
teacher looks mean as she ridicules me in a harsh,
loud voice. The rest of the class laughs at me.

At this moment, my soul jumps out of

my second-grade self's body and flies to the
top of the ceiling. She hangs on, frightened,
sad, and confused.

My modern-day self freezes the scene –

capturing the teacher, the classmates, and my
second-grade-body in a three-dimensional still
picture – a hologram. I'm in control of the
hologram; I can stop the action and take my time
examining the image. I can move around the image
the way they do in The Matrix. The entire scene is in
my control. It feels much less scary already.
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL I wait until I feel emotionally capable of
handling the situation – only then do I proceed. I
place myself as I am today into the scene. I look
up to the ceiling and spot my second-grade soul,
who looks exactly like my second-grade body,
but with less density.

With a gentle voice, I tell my second-grade

soul who I am, almost as if I’m cooing to a baby, "I
am you! All grown up!" She's amazed. "You! Are
me?" It takes some convincing but eventually she
believes who I claim to be.

I invite my second-grade soul to study the

frozen scene in front of us. The soul agrees and
comes out of her hiding place on the ceiling. We
walk around the hologram of the classroom,
marveling at how each person is as still as a statue.
We examine the teacher, the students, and our
second-grade body – from many different angles.
We look at the teacher's mouth frozen in an ugly
shape, the students' faces frozen in unkind
merriment. We see their body postures from the
back, from the sides, from the top, and so on. We
see the image from many perspectives – not just
one viewpoint – giving the scene new meaning.
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL My modern-day self slowly processes my
second-grade self's feelings and emotions in the
situation. I listen to my second-grade soul's
complaints, confessions, regrets, wounds, angers,
and hurts. As an older and wiser adult, I show my
appreciation and sympathy by listening intently. I
don't offer "advice" or tell her the "correct" thing
to do. I simply allow myself to be fully present
with my second-grade soul and allow her to
freely speak her mind.

I keep telling her I'm on her side and offer my

appreciation at her strength in handling intense
emotions under pressure in a highly charged
situation. We're talking like kindred souls. "Bravo!"
I say to her and she begins to feel vindicated.

From our intense observations, a new

understanding arises: the teacher is having a bad
day, and she takes it out on her helpless students.
The other students are simply little kids – unable
to comprehend the consequences of their
actions; they have yet to learn to have kindness in
their hearts.
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL After a while, we both feel complete. I ask if
my second-grade soul wants to do anything. I tell
her I'm here to support her in whatever she wants
to do.

To my surprise, my second-grade soul wants

to kick the teacher's butt. I say, "Yay!" My second-
grade soul goes up to the teacher, tells her to
bend down, and kicks her butt.

We laugh and enjoy ourselves as the teacher

tumbles over and falls. My second-grade soul
demands an apology. The teacher apologizes,
and my second-grade soul makes her promises
never to talk to her students in such hurtful way.

My second-grade soul then proceeds to give

the entire class a scolding on what a shame it is
to laugh at another's misfortune.
 ➋
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL
Bring the Lost Soul Home

I tell my second-grade soul that we are one.

She still lives – as me – in a current life!

I ask if she will return to the present with me. I tell

her the incident has caused me to feel
inadequate in dealing with other unkind people. I
need her perspective and cannot be whole
without her. She agrees to alert me when others
are acting unkind toward me and give me
strength when I defend myself. We look into each
other’s eyes and smile.

Together, we walk down a tunnel of time,

traveling from my childhood to my youth to my
present-day self where I sit in meditation.

We hug and she merges into me.

We are again one.
 ➌
CHILDHOOD SOUL RETRIEVAL
Integrate Into Current Life

T he next day when my boss yells at me again,

I don't know where my strength comes from,
but I stand up and tell him, "Don't talk to me this
way! Even if I didn't do the job right, you have no
right to be impolite to me!" He is totally taken by
surprise.

All I can say is

that, while I may
get fired, nobody
has ever talked
to me in an
unkind way
again. I feel her
presence inside
me. She is loving,
she is poised,
she is forgiving.
She is who I am
becoming.

My second-grade soul is now inside me.

She protects me and does not allow any harm to
come near me again.
 The technique
sometimes yields
unexpected results. You
may encounter yourself
in a past life situation. I
will give you another
example of how I
recovered a frightened
bit of my lost soul from
a past life.
PAST LIFE SOUL RETRIEVAL

O ne fine day, I'm hiking down a country

path. I look up at the blue, blue sky and the
bright, bright sun. A glorious day of creation!

Suddenly, out of nowhere, I begin to sweat –

frightened by something. I sit down, close my
eyes, and go into an empty state of mind:

meditation.
 ➊ Gather the Missing Pieces
PAST LIFE SOUL RETRIEVAL

A scene presents itself: A young man I

intuitively know to be myself in a former
life is walking down a country path. Another man
jumps out of the bushes, knife in hand, and stabs
my past-life self in the back. At that moment, the
soul bit jumps out of the body and flies to the top
of a nearby tree. Clinging onto a tree branch, the
soul bit watches in horror as the man murders my
past-life body.

My modern-day self freezes the scene –

capturing the murderer, the victim, and my
former-life body into a holographic image. The
hologram of the scene is under my control so it's
less scary. I’ve successfully stopped the action so
I can take my time examining the images and
process the emotions. No harm comes to me
because I know I am the one in control. I know I
can take as long as I like to process the images.
PAST LIFE SOUL RETRIEVAL If I feel I'm not ready to deal with the
situation, I can stop the entire soul retrieval
process altogether. I can keep this hologram in my
memory for another time. I don't have to deal with
it today. I wait until I feel emotionally capable of
handling the situation – only then do I proceed.

I put myself, as I am today, into the scene. I

look up into the tree, where I spot my frightened
soul bit. In a gentle voice, I invite him to come
down – and then remain patient while waiting for
his response.

When the soul bit comes down from the tree,

he expresses his shock, dismay, and anger that
someone took away his life while he was in his
prime. I comfort him and ask if we can study the
two men who are in the frozen hologram. The
soul agrees.

We walk around, examining both the

murderer and the victim from many different
angles. We look at their faces, their body postures,
the hand with the knife, the back with the blood,
and so on.
PAST LIFE SOUL RETRIEVAL We see the image from many perspectives –
not just one viewpoint – giving the scene new
meaning.

From our intense observations, a new

understanding arises: the murderer was a
deranged, starving, homeless man, unable to
comprehend the consequences of his actions. My
soul bit slowly processes the dying body's
feelings and emotions. The scene also takes on
new meaning when we affirm and recognize that
the soul has survived death and move forward
into new lives and new experiences.

After a while, we both feel complete and

then share our feelings, talking like kindred souls.
My past-life soul and I decide to forgive the
murderer. We remove the knife from his hands
and bury it so he’ll never again have this weapon.
We offer food to the starving man and tell him to
leave – and he complies. We give the dead body
a proper burial, burn incense, and say our prayers.
 ➋
SOUL RETRIEVAL
Bring the Lost Soul Home

I tell my former-life soul that we are one.

He still lives – as me in a current life.

My former-life soul expresses much interest. I ask

if he will return to the present – and alert me to
danger and offer protection. I tell him the attack
in the past life has caused me to fear other
people. He retains his trust in others and his
carefree happiness because he took refuge in the
tree before the man died. I need his perspective
and cannot experience wholeness without him.

I convince him that it’s better to lead an

integrated life than to hide in a tree crying over
his dead body. I tell him about my wonderful life.
He nods in agreement and tells me my words are
music to his ears. We look into each other’s eyes
PAST LIFE

and smile.

Together, we walk down a tunnel of time,

traveling from my childhood to my youth to my
present-day self where I sit in meditation.

We hug and he merges into me.

We are again one.
 ➌ Integrate Into Current Life
PAST LIFE SOUL RETRIEVAL

A fter I complete this Soul Retrieval, my

bottomless fear about walking alone in the
wilderness is gone. I'm still cautious about wild
animals and strangers, but I am rarely afraid. The
old, unfounded, psychological fear is gone.

Your past is not set in stone – and neither is your

future. You can retrieve your soul from a future
you desire. Your power of creating who you are is
in the present moment. Your imagination is your
ticket to create the person you want to be.

Go far!
Reach for the stars!
You are limitless in your creativity.
 Now I’ll walk you
step-by-step through
an example of how I
seek guidance from my
future self.
FUTURE SELF SOUL RETRIEVAL
It's a sunny day outside, and I'm sitting at home
with no place to go, no one to see, no
performance to give, no money to make. For
someone as "famous" as I, I feel very small. I close
my eyes, and go into an empty state of mind:

meditation.
FUTURE SELF SOUL RETRIEVAL
➊ Gather the Missing Pieces

A scene presents itself: Jenny Funkmeyer –

inspirational speaker, performer, healer,
goddess – giving a speech and dancing on stage
to a packed house. Thousands of fans clapping
their hands, swooning over the material I'm
presenting. She's changing the audiences’ lives –
leading people to a higher place, to a better day.

Jenny takes her attention away from her

adoring fans for a moment to look behind a small
fold in the curtain. There I am, my today-self,
squatting, looking up at my future-self with my
jaw hanging open, eyes wild with admiration.

I will never forget how my future-self smiles

at me, bringing me on stage and introducing me
to the audience. "This is me! Only a few years
back!" She looks me in the eye, "Keep doing what
you're doing! You're on the right track. Don't give
up! I need you to be fully you, to sail forward
without fear, to reach for the highest goals, so
that I can be who I am today!"
FUTURE SELF SOUL RETRIEVAL I survey the audience. I see who they are. I
examine the stage, I see the decorations and the
equipment. I closely observe Miss Fabio Jenny
Funkmeyer: I see her clothes and her hairdo; I
examine how she stands and how she talks. I take
note of her confidence, which I lack. I see that she
knows she has something amazing to offer,
whereas I'm not so sure I actually know what I'm
doing.

I ask for her advice, "Do you think I should go

to England this summer?" She says without
hesitation, "Absolutely!" Hmm....I think to myself,
absolutely, huh?....

We continue back and forth, as I ask all kinds

of questions and she gives me unconditional love
and encouragement.
FUTURE SELF SOUL RETRIEVAL
➋ Bring the Lost Soul Home

After a while, I have a whole notebook full of

things to do, and I feel complete. I ask my future-
self to come back with me to today. "Please stay
inside me and give me advice whenever I need
it." "Of course!" she says with a twinkle in her
eyes.

Holding hands, we walk down a tunnel of time,

traveling from the stage to the present-day self
where I sit in meditation.

We hug and he merges into me.

We are again one.
FUTURE SELF SOUL RETRIEVAL
➌ Integrate Into Current Life

Armed with my own successful self from the

future, I copy her shamelessly. I dress like her, I
talk like her, I walk like her. I am her!
A few things to bear in
mind...
IMAGINATION IS REAL In meditation, your mind is in an expanded
state. Insights and images come to you. You
might think to yourself, "Am I making this up?"
The answer is not an easy one; it’s both yes and
no. Yes, it's all in your imagination; every
thought that ever comes to you is in your
imagination.

There is no real
difference between
making things up
and having a
connection to the
divine.
But there is something indeed magical in how
certain thoughts, sounds, and images come by
themselves – almost as if they have lives of their
own. Each of us has a higher self that supplies
information through our imagination. There is
nothing wrong with that. Your imagination is
you. The gut feeling is you. The strange little
scenario that comes out of the void is you.
BE CREATIVE T here is no such thing as a "correct image,"
and you don't have to get it "right". The
images that come from out of nowhere are
from the land of your juicy mind! Run wild!

So what if the teacher in my example was

actually justified in punishing me because I was
a wild child? I felt and still feel the
consequences of being belittled. That's reason
enough for me to go back into my memories
and remake my past. This is my life and these
are my images. I can cry at my own party if I
want to – or I can kick some butts!

So what if I was never a man murdered on

a country road by a homeless man? Look at this
as a treat from your higher self to you – like a
nice movie complete with free popcorn! Why
not simply have fun? Enjoy the story and have
some imaginary popcorn too. Go heavy on the
butter and sprinkle amply with sugar or salt – to
your heart's delight. You might be surprised!

As for my future-self, Miss Fabio Jenny

Funkmeyer, the jury is still out. Who’s to say
whether I’m right or wrong?
TRUST YOURSELF W hat I can tell you from my own
experience with soul retrieval is:

IT WORKS!
Slowly but surely I gain a certain trust in myself.

I care less what others say. I stand up for my

rights. I love my shadow, ugly, fat, unkind self. I
accept my dark side with grace.

This technique is not about achieving success in

one session. It's about a slow process of
regaining trust in yourself, re-imagining your
past and creating the future of your dreams.
DO IT OFTEN E very emotion, every fear, every sadness,
every anger has an emotional link to the
past. As I mentally reassess the past and
imagine a better outcome, my life gets better
and better. I can handle my life in a more
reasonable manner, with more composure.

That you create the future from the present is

easy to grasp. But how can your outlook about
your future create your present? In a way, your
desire for the future is drawing you to it.

Do you know that you create the past in the

present as well? Cause and effect are two sides
of the same coin. The past is not set in stone –
you can recast the past in any way you like.

I recommend practicing Soul Retrieval on a

regular basis. Whenever you feel fear or sense
that something is bothering you, give yourself
time to really feel the emotion. I make DIY Soul
Retrieval a part of my daily life.
HAVE FUN! N ow that you understand the principle of
Soul Retrieval and the way to do it, it’s
time to have fun.

Think of DIY Soul Retrieval as your creation.

Approach it in any way that suits you. At first,
you may want to follow my methods step-by-
step or might even want to gain the help of a
healer or shaman.

Eventually,
you'll find your own techniques. I know your life
will be enriched by the process. Good luck!