Interesting experience. This may in fact have been a retrieval.
I sometimes get the impression that we at our side, don't have to do much,
only exchange a few words, to transfer the nonphysical energy which opens
the path for Helpers. I wouldn't be surprised if there were Helpers stepping
in through the energy path, or by the energy transfer you made, once you
had left.

I also wonder if the monk in fact was in Focus 26, as I've got the impression
that Buddhists are closer to F 27 than other belief system followers. Maybe
somewhere he had started to wonder if there were more to this, and the Helpers
had realized that he could be retrieved to F 27, so you only had to do a gentle
touch with some words.
Also, I've noticed that many of those I've retrieved don't seem to be in any
particular distress. Most of them just seems to be stuck, with beginning
thoughts on moving onwards somewhere else.