Hallo All! My first posting on the Retrieval Forum, though I've been reading lots of it!

Some may have seen my postings on the Afterlife Knowledge forum, under "Alzheimer's and Afterlife". In one of the replies on that thread, Betson kindly suggested that I post a message here, as I'm wondering if a retrieval exercise might be needed for my mother. She passed on in February, having suffered Alzheimer's for some 12 years, hence the main reason I wonder if she needs help. Also, the manner of her passing was very traumatic for her, with relentless gasping for breath, and frustrated attempts to communicate her distress.

I am willing to provide many more details (places, names, etc etc) if anybody is interested in helping here - I believe the standard practise is via a PM? Of course, I understand the results would be posted here, which is only fair, and not a problem.

One point I'm curious about - if the target of a retrieval isn't in fact "stuck", and therefore not in need of helping, does the would-be retriever simply find nothing - or would some communication occur anyway, perhaps from the target in their rightful ("unstuck") place?

I am, as you will have guessed, relatively new to all this!

My thanks to you for reading,

Best wishes.

Alfred:

Getting stuck isn't a common occurence.  Even if a spirit does get stuck, things are set up so spirit helpers know that a stuck spirit needs help.  Spirits who help out plan things in a manner so it isn't a matter of a person in the physical deciding to take on a specific retrievel.  If a physical helper is needed,  spirit helpers will enlist such help according to need.

I believe you would be far better served if you prayed and tried to receive a confirmation yourself.  Perhaps through a dream that seems different than most dreams.  

Hospice workers have found that people who are close to death sometimes make contact with spirits before they pass away. Perhaps this is why your mother was smiling during her last 45 minutes.

Albert has some good suggestions.

My grandfather passed in much the same way, and I was there. He communicated with me after death. Meaning, I felt his presence, and I had a dream.

But there are some here willing and able to assist. I believe that those who are meant to help you are drawn to you in a particular way. You find them because you are supposed to find them. From my very limited perspective, I cannot see how a person who goes into an honest-to-god meditation with the right tools and experience, or even the simplest moment of awareness, can fail to experience the afterlife with more intensity and satisfaction than any conversation about it.

But, I digress.

I will keep you in my thoughts, and hope that you are successful in having contact very very soon.

love, b

Thank you very much Albert and Blink for your replies and very kind thoughts!

I think you may both be right; I have had an experience in the last few days which is surely a contact with my mother, and shows she is well and able to send love. I will post the details on my thread on the Afterlife Knowledge forum.

With very best wishes,

Alfred