I tried to go to my place in the astral to add details to it for some PE activity,
but this particular session I had problems imagining anything. At the end
when I was about to quit, I saw something.

I got the feeling that "this is a retrieval".

It was an outdoor cafeteria near a house, probably in a small town.
I saw the white tables and white chairs several times, but there didn't
seem to be anyone sitting at the tables. The cafeteria was a
red wooden house.

I saw a waitress about 30 years, but I got the impression that she was
a thoughtform, so I didn't really pay much attention to her, once I failed
to zoom in on her other than she had white clothes and an apron.

I moved forward and backward.

At the far end of the area with all chairs & tables I saw an opening between
the house to my left and the blurred surrounding to my right. There was bright
sun light and there were trees with green leaves further ahead.

I moved back again and forward, and had no clue what to do. I saw no one
except the thoughtform waitress, who picked up something from the tables
of the cafeteria.

Suddenly a small lady grabbed my hands and began to shake my hands.

It was on old, very short lady, who had appeared out of nowhere. She was
very old and looked crippled. Her hands, arms and body looked twisted almost
like her bones and joints were deformed. Her hands certainly were twisted
probably by some kind of age related disease. I also got the impression that
she was somehow impaired by a stroke or some problem with her brain.

Despite her condition, she could stand up and walk.

Later I got her name, which I doubt I got right, so I'll not mention it
here. Her age was 89 and the year was 1985, the town we were in was Frankfurt,
so we must have been in Germany, but I didn't need to talk German with her.

She was shaking me quite intensely and said something to me several times,
which I couldn't make sense of other than it sounded like:

"Can you help me... I have to... Take me to... I have, I need to...
I am here and... I will go to... take me, bring me to..."

This is probably the first time a retrieval person has directly grabbed me
and approached me or seen me before I've seen the person.

She held me and shook me for quite some time. I tried to talk to the old lady
but couldn't understand her. After several attempts without knowing what to do,
I called for helpers, but no one stepped in. I sent the old lady PUL, but that
just made her cling on to me even more intensely. I had no idea what to do.
I tried a few times to ask her where she wanted to go, but that seemed wrong,
too. What was I supposed to do?

Most likely she knew that she was dead, but why couldn't the helpers retrieve
her on their own, as she was able to approach me?

Suddenly I got a bright idea as I felt she needed someone.

Apparently she needed a hug, so I hug her, she got a great hug from me, and
she hug me back. And as she was short I lifted her from the ground. She was
very thin and her joints of her body were probably in bad shape, but I still
held around her and she kept holding around me.

Not that the cafeteria setting seemed bad, but maybe I could move her?

I imagined we moved to a lighter, happier place, a higher better place.
The outdoor cafeteria disappeared and we kind of were in a sort of outer space.
Maybe there were stars or just some very strange substance around us.

We was in this strange substance for maybe half a minute and then the
cafeteria came back. It seemed different but the same, the aura to
the place was slightly better.

I noticed that she was younger, perhaps 40 years younger and taller, she
didn't have any physical body problems any more.

I asked her if she had worked at the cafeteria. I got the impression that
she hadn't worked there but perhaps she had some kind of connection to
the cafeteria?

Once we were back at the cafeteria, she rather quickly let go of me and walked
away. She waved her hand before disappearing to my left and went away from
the cafeteria too.
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I'm a little puzzled by this retrieval as the old lady probably could have
been retrieved by the regular people in the astral. Only reason I got that
I retrieved her was that she had been hiding, as I couldn't sense her from
the start. I have no good idea why she approached me, but perhaps she
wanted to leave and put all her courage into grabbing me?

Mogenblue wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 3:25pm:

I don't really know, I don't even think I do the actual transformation,
it's outside of my control.

But I'm pretty sure that I've been temporarily transformed into
something similar to a "bird" and a "werewolf" during Aspect
retrieval, at least in regards of what my Interpreter tells me.

I liked that you hugged her. I like the interactions. This is one of the things that happen in dreams or other settings which intrigue me, because the emotions, if there are any, can be very intense, and actually wonderful. It convinces me that this sort of activity, that of exchanging affection, reassurance, love is not solely physically based, but is part of our deepest, most private nature, just built into who we really are. Even if human beings have a disturbingly large range of behaviors and attitudes, we carry within us so much love. It is a spontaneous, delightful part of our core being.