Thank you very much for sharing! Maybe in one of your next sessions you can have another look on her how she's doing, just an idea. Anyway, good start! (Well, though it's in the nature of retrievals that somebody had to die first)
Spooky

Identcat,

I have had many fulfilled death premonitions, some of them most disconcerting and others comforting.  In my view, you used Bruce's imagination technique to put yourself in a psi-conducive state that allowed you to pick up on Donna's passing.   You have no idea if Donna even needs a retrieval and what you report has nothing to do with retrievals.  However, I'd encourage you to keep at it because your new psychic sensitivity may blossom into the gift of astral exploration which may at last lead to true retrievals. 

Your psychic experience reminds me of the time I was playing bridge with some education professors.  Their department had just received the news that their colleague Joe had died of cancer.  When the evening of cards ended, I suddenly found myself announcing to the Dean of the School (Paul): "Ellie [Joe's widow] has just been contacted by Joe and she is wondering if the contact is real.  Tell her I can assure her that it is."   I have no idea why I said this and later second-guessed myself.

Curious, Paul contacted Ellie and told her what I had said.   Ellie was shocked.  She told Paul that she and her children had just returned from a trip to Pennsylvania.  She was riding in the back of the car.  Someone said something funny and, for the first time since Joe's funeral, they all laughed heartily.  In the midst of this mirth, Ellie suddenly had a waking vision of Joe from the waist up.  Joe too was laughing heartily.  He telepathically conveyed this message: "This is the way I like to see you.  Don't worry about me.  I'm doing just fine over here."  Ellie had told no one about this special contact with her husband's spirit.  I've had other verification experiences like this.  I hope both you and I get to perform retrievals some day.  So far I'm afraid I've just been able to perform bogus retrievals in bogus OBE states!  But I'll keep trying.

Don

Identicat, welcome and I want to say that you did an outstanding job.   I can imagine how happy you are and I'm very happy for you. Sometimes we call them retrievals and they're really contacts when the person doesn't need to be retrieved. That doesn't matter. You contacted her.

With Love,
Mairlyn

I agree, the fact that you had the contact is what's important.  It sounds like you have some great stories to share.  Looking forward to hearing more!

Love,
Vicky

I added the second contact with Donna in the Retrievals only forum. This will tell you what I saw in her belief system.  Thanks for listening--- cat