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

102nd Sitting 20/04/2016


We had the room setup as usual.
I did the opening prayer at 8.40pm, turned out the light and put the first tune on while we did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise…

Liz started off on a large cobbled area, a market place, it was belting down with rain, lots of people around with umbrellas and the rain was flowing down in gullies and streams to the river which was very swollen, a flood area. Everybody wanted to get over it to the other side and found they could invent different ways of getting over it. There were wires with a slope to them and some people hooked their umbrellas over the wire and slid across. Some people took a running jump or flew over; some people went over with helium balloons while Liz just leapt over. It was wet and muddy on the other side and Liz found herself with a tiger. It was warm and friendly like a cat and she felt comfortable with it. It let her climb onto its back and went racing off through this swampy jungle, up a mountain to a clear area with wild scrubland and rocks. Up above them was a jade coloured pagoda and Liz wanted to go there. The tiger took her very quickly on a spiral route to it where Liz dismounted and went inside. At this point she slipped into a dream state and couldn’t fully remember or bring back what she experienced. She remembered people there and some were dying or already dead. She thought there was a master or teacher there and the experience was something to do with the body dying…

I started off standing with a top hat on the ground in front of me. I picked it up and looked inside expecting to see a magician’s rabbit but it was empty so I put it on. As I did so either the hat got bigger or I got smaller as it went right over me and I ended up standing inside this enormous top hat in complete darkness. Then I saw windows light up as if someone was turning the lights on in rooms around this hat and then ladders appeared from each window coming down towards me. I decided to climb up one of the ladders and crawled through the open sash window into an empty room. The walls were pink and as I stood there a door opened and Freddie Mercury entered with a grin on his face. He said I had a very vivid imagination and I was not to worry about whether these visualisations came from within me or from outside of myself as it doesn’t matter. What is important is the value of the experience you get from it. He said it was the same with mediumship communications and inspirations; you can never be entirely sure where they come from but as long as what comes through has value to you or to others and helps with their understanding then that is all that matters. Freddie said that even in the physical world much of what we experience is imagined or created by us, it’s like playing a big game and the more rules you make for yourself with your own beliefs the harder the game becomes. Forget the rules and just enjoy life, have fun, as long as you think of others, don’t hurt anyone and live positively you will enjoy the game…

Before I put the music back on Liz had a strong feeling of an African wooden mask, a ritual mask, mahogany coloured.

I was sensing flashing in the room.

I put the music back on and we continued the session…

Then Liz said…

‘Some people have to die to be reborn… that’s the initiation rites. It takes place in adolescence. With some people it’s a new person that comes through’

‘I got a name like Xerxes, lots of beads and feathers, something like a phalanx, a warrior… Staying, staying at home, a stately home… California, California gold rush… I’m going through a series of life times… A poisonous snake… Eglantine, a connection with Keats’ house and Fanny Brawn’  

‘I got Big Feather wanting to tell me about some animal thing, got paw prints… An image of me on my belly, not sure if it’s on the ground or in a canoe, a wooden canoe… Seem to be like a big turtle and the eggs… that’s it, the canoe is like a shell, its body armour, it’s everything…’

The music finished and Liz continued…

‘When you are reborn you are given the body armour, you are animal. It’s a narcotic you’re given and that you die almost and you play a new part, you’re reborn. Big Feather… Acting out these symbols because at that stage in life these are very important transformations, it’s as though you call it psychosis, there’s no understanding of other realities, other ways of being. These are early beliefs, early rites of passage but they’re baked into the soul and carried on. Protective thought forms in the psyche so when some people are drawn towards their animals they are living that psychic connection but don’t realise that we’ve become the animal. You’ve got your horse lovers, your dog lovers, your cat lovers, your reptile lovers, proxies, a living proximal to their animals. When we became the animal you have to understand these psychic transitions because they are part of the human psyche, they are remembered. Xerxes phalanx is a pack of wild wolves, you don’t know the half of it and the warriors will tell you, mad with the blood loss, you follow the lines of behaviour and you see how far back they go. So to become fully human you have to transition yet again, transition from the animal, so it’s a new growing to be done, a new initiation and that was the symbolism of the crucifixion, a new dying, he overturned the tables, he sacrificed connection with the animal to become fully human. What does it take to die again, death to the animal man, the half animal? We love and understand to grow up hence the use of narcotics, we attempt to die…’

‘Fade far away, dissolve and quite forget what thou amongst the leaves hast never known, the weariness, the fever and the fret, here where men sit and hear each other groan, where palsy shakes a few sad last grey hairs, where youth grows pale and spectre thin and dies…’ (Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats)

‘He was a surgeon who died early. A surgeon tries to cut out the animal, cut away the devises that have been used to transition, to make whole, to become human, to heal but it’s like trying to tinker with the exoskeleton but it’s the inside that needs to morph, it’s the psyche that needs to morph like inside a chrysalis the old body, the old psychic body goes to sleep, not with narcotics though but with the will to transit with a conscious will to align with the cosmic human, with the sun. The son of God has been called and to allow the reshaping of the psyche, to allow the reformation, the resurrection of the psyche and then the nightingale, the bird of paradise, the firebird, the angelic breaks out of the dormancy, breaks out of the exoskeleton to become truly human. It’s a process of trust and allowing, an inner knowing. The right cradle has to be prepared for the rebirthing and that cradle is prepared by those teachers who have transitioned and those who are ready now to transition will be drawn to those teachers and they will find a cradle of trust and knowledge in which they can safely transit with all blessings with all joy, with all peace… We’re through now, thank you for listening’

As Liz came back she had an image of a silver snake skin.
Interestingly a few minutes earlier I had drifted off slightly and got an image of a man holding a large snake that was about to shed its skin.

Once Liz was back with it I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…