This group began sitting in July 2013 as an experiment using the 'Basic Guide' published by the 'Scole Experimental Group' in 1996.

We've changed the way we sit over the years. I am continuing to develop trance mediumship and Liz gives a mixture of evidential clairvoyance, inspired speaking and trance...

Our intentions are to receive information that will help us understand the bigger picture, why we are here, what happens when we die, the mechanics of mediumship and how we can help in raising the quality of consciousness...

...Nick Pettitt

22nd Sitting 06/02/2014


We had the room set up as usual and started with our Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz began in a large wide valley. The river seemed distant and meandering. The rainbow stretched from one side of the valley to the other. The bridge was bamboo and Liz saw many Chinese people wearing triangular conical hats. A little Chinese girl with short black hair came running towards her, took her hand and wanted to lead her over the bridge to meet her mummy and family. They met a tall lady on the other side. She was very friendly and introduced Liz to the family. They were sitting round a table having tea. The table was covered in lotus flowers and water lilies, pink, white, gold and yellow. Coming out of them were what looked like needles or aerials? They told Liz they were like stamens with pollen and the pollen would spread, this was the seeds we were spreading. Liz associated them with pure thoughts, purity. These flowers were very important and Liz was given one to bring back. She felt they were our connection, our transmission with spirit. It was like the stamens were full of seed to be disseminated…  

I started off sitting on a bench looking down at the river. Then I got up and walked down a stony, shingle path to the bridge. At this point I realised I was wearing long white robes and I used a long stick to help me walk. I remember feeling unstable as the robes got tangled around my feet. The bridge was made of wood, roughly built and didn’t look particularly solid but I decided to walk over it. Half way across I saw knights on horseback coming towards me and on the other side I could see a castle on a hill. My attention was drawn to the flags flying on it, white with red crosses like English St George flags. There was no communication between me and the knights and after a while they turned to return to their side and as they did this their horses sprouted wings, taking off and flying them to the castle…

I felt a lot of pressure on my forehead during the Rainbow Bridge Exercise and it was making me feel light headed. I had trouble speaking as Liz and I described our experiences.

I then did the opening prayer and put the music on still feeling very light headed.

The feeling I get is always different to what I experience when sitting in the cabinet on Mondays. It’s more like I’m being affected by the atmosphere and energy in the room whereas in the cabinet I feel more controlled by entities. I’ve so far never felt controlled or feel I want to give communications in our Thursday sitting.

Liz reported something crawling over her head.
She felt strong presences in the room.
She saw small lights close to her flashing on and off, looking like the luminous tabs on the table.
She had a tight feeling around her solar plexus.

The room started to look light and pinkish each side of me.
I saw wispy bits and flashes in front of me.

Liz thought it looked misty blue in the middle of the room.
She saw a light falling down in front of her.
She got the name Brenda. She’s had this name before and feels she wants to communicate.

I was getting the impression the room was filled with twirling silk ribbons.
It was looking darker everywhere to me.

Liz was aware of a lot of light to her right. Like a strong light shining down on her.
She then saw the room fill up with blobby shapes, some moving slowly, others darting around.

I picked up a smell that came and went, a bit like a fish and chip shop smell.
I had a fuzzy feeling on the back of my right hand and finger.
My legs were very cold.
I was seeing lots of blobs floating about, and then it went light and misty.

Liz got the impression of lots of tall houses, a French village, they all had shutters.

Liz sensed a feeling around her throat like a choker necklace. She saw it as a contraption with needles going into her throat. She said it didn’t feel uncomfortable but felt her throat was being opened up. She felt someone wanted to talk through her. They wanted to say something but didn’t have any words.

I suggested that if any words came into her mind she should try and verbalise them.

I felt another fuzzy feeling on the back of my finger and felt something in my right ear.
It looked light to my right, a primrose yellow colour.

Liz got an impression and verbalised what she saw…

‘Billy is holding this golden ball. He came through as William but then said Billy, Billy, he’s got a golden ball and he just wanted to let you know. He says he’s not the fellow in the bowler hat but I actually think he is… He’s just playing. Now he’s transmogrified into Joseph and his multi-coloured dream coat, he’s just playing, a bit of an actor. But the golden ball is real, not an ordinary ball like an orb. More like real gold, its real gold’

I got a touch on my left foot.
Then I got the Fish and Chip shop smell again.
Liz had a strong ectoplasm smell and said the room was kaleidoscoping, changing shape and size.
She felt a tickle under her foot.
She saw a few moving lights and felt pressure on her head.

The American Indian tune came on which meant it was time for us to resume our ‘Cross Experiment’

As we started I briefly saw a thin black cross come and go but soon my vision was filled with bright blobs of light looking like flames in front of me. I had trouble keeping my eyes open, they wanted to close. As the tune ended the room returned to darkness.

Liz was trying to create cross threads as if weaving and she could almost see at one point the upright part of the cross. She tried to hold onto the image of the upright stamen she saw earlier. She got a thin line but it felt very dynamic moving right across the room horizontally and then vertical from top to bottom. Then she saw a shadowy three dimensional cross but not clearly. She didn’t get hot this week.

I was now cold all over.
Liz thought the room looked bright.
I thought it was dark.
I got the Fish and Chip shop smell again briefly and a tickle on my right foot.

We both drifted off during the last two tunes.

Liz found herself in an anteroom of a large house. It was like a long corridor. She seemed to be working on her memoirs making her think of Winston Churchill.

I saw a photo album opened up with a photo of a white horse. I was shown a distinguishing mark on the horse but couldn’t remember what it was afterwards. I turned the page of the album and there was a page filled with signatures and messages but again I couldn’t remember what they were afterwards.

The music ended and Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise by which time we were both feeling totally back with it.

Liz had felt at times during the sitting the team wanted to speak through her but felt her own mind and thoughts getting in the way and blocking it.
This is something I’ve experienced and I’m sure other developing trance mediums feel the same when starting out. I told her to think of it more as a joint communication, her and spirit, at this stage and not to worry about what is said…