The room was setup as usual
This week we went back to playing music throughout the
session.
I did the opening prayer at 8.40pm then turned out the
light.
I put the music on for our Rainbow Bridge Exercise…
Liz started at a red brick bridge over a river with canal
boats. There were a few drinkers dossing under the bridge and on the other side
Liz could see it was like the Bruderhof, communities of people in strange black
and white old fashioned dress, farming people and they were waving to Liz as if
they knew her. She crossed the bridge stopping half way to look down at the
swans and canal boats passing under the bridge. When she got to the other side
she met old Dick the farrier who gave Liz a big hug and took her around the
site. There were lots of animals and various crafts going on. Liz then realized
the purpose of her visit and she made her way to a large meeting room. It was
all blue with blue velvet everywhere and a large computer in the centre of the
room. Everyone was sitting in a circle all holding hands and reaching out like
a witches hat joining hands over the middle of the circle. Then Liz saw blue-cross
nurses. They were taking long blue ribbons from the centre of the circle going
out to all the people, especially the handicapped. Whenever a request had been
made for healing this blue ribbon was sent out to the person and once that
connection had been made that person would be helped. They told Liz this was
just one of many healing circles and just one method of doing it…
I started off walking along a street on the path with the
road to my right and terraced houses to my left. It was very quiet with a few
people about and the odd car on the road. I kept noticing the tall street lamps
that lined the street as I passed them. It seemed to get busier the further I
went until it got to the point where I could hardly move for people all trying
to get somewhere in a rush and there was now a traffic jam of cars getting
nowhere fast. I felt uncomfortable there and looked up again at the street
lamps then imagined myself on top of one looking down at the mass of people and
cars. I looked up and saw birds flying about freely in the vast expanse of sky
and decided I wanted to do that so became a bird and joined them in the sky
flying away from this place over countryside to a large mountain that had just
one man standing at the top. He was surrounded by birds and as I got close I
saw he was feeding them. I landed and changed back into myself again. He told
me how anybody could come to this place whenever they wanted just by stopping
what they were doing for a few minutes and imagining themselves here. Everyone
can benefit from doing this and it will improve their lives by taking them away
from the unproductive rat race they’ve all created for themselves. Life is to
be enjoyed and only we can all create a better life for ourselves…
I put the music back on.
I felt a strong pressure on my forehead. It was like having
a band around my head.
It began to look blobby in front of me.
My legs got cold, and then I was cold all over.
I felt tickles down the right side of my neck.
Liz was drifting off.
I felt tickles in my hair.
It was now looking lighter and misty to me.
I got some images of giant bees.
Then I got an image of shiny snakes being illuminated by
yellow light. It was as if I was viewing them from underneath.
Liz got ‘Tennis
rackets and somebody smoking a pipe, an urge to enjoy, recreation…’
She continued…
‘I see lots of lovely
flowers, a garden full of ivy flowers, green colours… We have a Garden of Eden
here on Earth and it’s underestimated. The power of recreation and how
important these activities are, just having fun, enjoying’
‘Bill, I’ve got Bill…
and an image of a zebra crossing’
I’d noticed some flowery smells earlier and now picked up a
smell like cheese biscuits.
Liz continued…
‘I seem to be in this
park, parkland, Richmond Park, there are squirrels’
‘I keep coming back to
the importance of unstructured activity, the walks, outings… The word keeps
coming back, kaleidoscope… I guess the kaleidoscope is just a restructuring all
the time of the elements, the same elements, they’re just being restructured,
re-patterned’
‘Mary Anne’
Liz felt the music was interfering so I turned it down until
I could only just hear it.
Liz then continued…
‘There’s a lady called
Yvonne… double trouble… dark figure in the background, African gentleman… I’ve
got a sense of arms and knees, sledges or skis, ski slopes’
‘We bury the beautiful
body, it’s like the kaleidoscope, the elements have just all got shuffled
around again, that beauty goes on, it’s just reconfigured…’
‘These collisions,
things happen but life goes on in one way or another… The valuable recollections,
times in the park, a peaceful time, autumn colours, cherish those moments,
water under the bridge. By looking into the stream many reflections and the
reflections aren’t the real thing, the reflections are changing, the water is
changing… everything is reconfigured… looking for what’s constant. Pull all my
pieces together to have some semblance of I, the I underneath it all’
‘A difficult thing to maintain
focus when you are so many… I can be the black bird, I can be the snow, all the
reflections but in the physical world it’s much easier to be one thing, to hold
the focus, to sustain identity. Out here beyond I can be all the stars in the
universe, all the stones in the sea… Where’s my beginning, where’s my end’
‘I’ve got Toby…’
‘Memorabilia is like
ashes, most is like empty medals, bits of ribbon, they’re not worth hanging
onto, scraps, not important. The most important thing is the park… it’s the quality
of the enjoyment’
Liz got the names… ‘Mirabel
Brooks and Duncan’
The music CD ended.
Liz had felt a lot of people about tonight.
She had drifted off briefly at the beginning but remained
aware for most of the session.
I’d also drifted off a bit at the beginning of the session
but remained aware for the rest of it.
Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing
down exercise…