One of the things that is interesting to me about UU young adults is their relationship to soul retrieval. There are two things in particular that are interesting.
One thing is that UU young adults really want it. Soul retrieval. They want to find a way to be their true selves. They are not afraid, or looking for escape. When I sit in most New Age or Pagan workshops and people are asked what they want to experience, they say things like "peace," "light," "healing," "beauty." When I ask UUYANers, most of them say, "realness," "honesty," "friendship," "truth." The difference is significant. "Realness" is very different than "light."
UUism is a religion of soul retreival, of a quest to affirm the real self.
The second thing is about spiritual maturity and power. Most modern people leave their body at a very early age. You do a soul retrieval on your average American adult and what you get is someone who is four, five years old. That's basically where the person is, emotionally. You do a soul retrieval on a raised-UU, and you get someone who is seventeen. They are old enough to talk, to think, to have theological opinions, to describe quite clearly what is happening to them. It's an amazing difference.
This older soul, even from its distance, is often able to provide better help to its body than the younger souls do, and so the person is often what you might call more "high-functioning" than your average dissociated person.
The raised-UU adult suffering from Bridging Trauma Syndrome may look like a reasonably average citizen. But though the memories may be repressed, or discarded as childish, the soul does not forget the Beloved Community, the feeling of the Magic Pool. Wounded by the Cliff and unable to enter fully into spiritual adulthood, they try nonetheless to carry their loyalty forward, even with their true power injured or in hiding.