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

105th Sitting 18/05/2016


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.

We did the rainbow bridge visualisation exercise…

Liz started off in a beautiful large meadow with dandelion clocks and the wind was blowing the dandelion seeds everywhere like parachutes. She followed the seeds down to a river, a shallow wide stream with lots of boulders in it. Liz waded across to the other side where there were lots of children playing in more meadowland. She followed them up a slope to a white tower with two pillars and a door looking like a church but it was a library. Liz went inside and saw the section of books on life and death. There were lots of books and she was wandering with one to take hold of. The librarian was someone Liz had known in the past, Alex Markin, who was connected with John Walsh. Liz asked him about John and then John came forward to greet her and he said she was continuing the work with children as he’d been a teacher. Liz realised the importance of keeping in contact with all these children she’d known. Liz then came back to the dandelion clocks and realised the significance of time, the dandelion clock, when it’s a dandelion and all the seeds are together it’s very focused but as they blow apart it was like time can be more diffuse, you can enter into any time stream you want to, when the seeds are no longer focused but scattered you have a much more diffuse sense, time is different, you can be in many places at once, time is more wide reaching…

I started off in the dark holding a candle walking along and I noticed I was passing people standing each side of me; the candle lit them up as I passed and they seemed to be urging me forwards. After a while I noticed I wasn’t walking anymore but was floating getting higher and faster. I still saw the people beside me as I past them and I could now see two lines of people stretching out in front of me into the distance like a long twisting snake. I then became aware of clouds ahead of me with a hole in them letting through a wonderful orange light. I’d been looking up at the clouds earlier and had seen one similar. The lines of people took me through this hole into another reality and I found myself sitting on the top of a grassy hill with all the people now sitting around me in circles. One of the people came up to me, he was an old man and he told me how important it was to look at the skies as they give us uplifting energy. It could be the sky at night or day, cloudy or bright, it all has a positive effect on us. A bright sky will lift us up while a grey sky can calm us down, we can be inspired by a beautiful sunset or the stars at night. Whenever you feel life is getting you down or becoming stressful look up at the sky and feel the effect it has on you. He also said that we can have an effect on the sky and make it even more beautiful by sending our loving, creative energy to it and this will have an even greater positive effect on others in the world below…

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

The room soon started to look misty and lighter to me, followed by bright blobs coming and going.
I felt pressure around my right ear and around my eyes.

I got a brief image of a large man sitting in a chair; he looked like an old cartoon with big eyes, bald head and hair sticking out above his ears.

About 25 minutes after putting the music back on Liz started to speak…

‘Two powerful people, Churchill and Khrushchev, Hammer and Sickle, chess board, two powerful people contemplating, seeing things differently now, a starry sky, the bear, Ursa Major… it’s perspective change like a little box, an oven, an incubator and the birds set free, the vastness of space. How do we keep with the pecking order and the quarrels in this little box, blind, blinkered, all around inky black space’

‘We’ve got no signposts now, no race, no flags. We swim in a communion’

‘There’s great men like Lovelock who say we’re evolving at a snail’s pace but they hold the vision of Gaia and the whole Earth and the science fiction writers, Asimov and others, they see beyond, see a vaster picture, they see the leaders having such limited perspective, need to go beyond into the inky black, into the outer reaches to see beyond territory, beyond guns, beyond the beyond’

‘Castigation, commiseration, too late for all that now, they had a chance, working now from the beyond, from the larger perspective, have to get things right’

‘Mabel, Mary, Mayday’

The music ended and Liz continued…

‘Red Cross, Red Crescent, Black Star, Hammer and Sickle, all of the symbols thrown up by humanity, symbolic of the fight between the forces of negativity and the power of love, struggling and hope, a resolution, go beyond see it all in its perspective, contemplate, don’t get caught up in the taking sides and the divisions, go beyond, beyond the beyond and see the inky blackness of the universe beyond the stars, held, the whole of consciousness and the mind of God’

‘I was before the first star and will be after the last, hold onto the inky black’

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep… from Shakespeare’s Tempest’

‘Think on these things, Churchill, Khrushchev, go beyond, contemplate them’

‘Though I speak with the voice of angels I have many medals, many tributes, many battles won but I have not love, I have become a tinkling brass. Many have passed over but few have come back to report, but those that have, some have said as much that all their achievements, leading of men, medals, badges, honours are nothing. What was important were the acts of love, little acts often and that’s to be learnt from the inky blackness, what has been brought back, importance of these reminders for the leaders of men. Their time is marked but the years in the blackness, in the inky blackness will go on and on. Mark the short years well, bring to fruition the fruits of love because the regret of the wasted opportunity will be bitter, bitter fruit when you die. Long time to repent for the missed opportunity, the wasted gift of leadership. Lead in love not in war, that’s the message now from Churchill and Khrushchev sitting in their arm chairs contemplating from the beyond… thank you for listening’

Me… ‘Thank you’

‘Would you like to say anything?’

Me… ‘Yes, we talk a lot about love, can life exist without love?’

‘Love is the matrix, it’s at the root, it’s inbuilt, it’s part, the medium of consciousness in which consciousness is wrought, nothing is separate from love, nothing without, it’s given, no life without. Love is just a name for what is and what is love. We call it love. The feeling of love is with the identification, the alignment with what is. That is what we call love. Alignment with what is and the feeling is part of our consciousness, sharing of the larger consciousness held in love. Even the bad, what we call bad, the negative, the hatred is still a part, it’s just a turning off, a lesser, an aspect of the creative process, skewed version, a temporary transitory phase’

Me… ‘So is the purpose of life to keep on working at increasing this love?’

‘The awareness of it yes, the consciousness, the full consciousness reflected back. It’s variations on a theme of love all reflecting back the original light. In the process of turning in on itself consciousness condenses and almost becomes so dense that the light is hidden, is trapped, almost split off from itself, turning in on itself to such a degree that the light becomes dimmed. The energy of the system becomes disturbed, lessoned and that’s when the negativities can come in. Darkness we call it, a spiritual darkness, a forgetting, a turning away from the original almost to a point that condensation on that turning in, that stilling, that inspection, the light has come back in. That’s where the struggle arises, the struggle to reclaim, to remember the light to bring it back in, but when that succeeds, when that light, when that focused condensed consciousness that’s almost split off from the original, when the light begins to dawn it becomes a very fine, a very focused, a brilliance of light and that’s what was hoped would happen in the Earth plane but there has to be a letting go of the condensation to remember, to bring that, to allow that energy to revigorate the point of transition, the point of intensification has got to such a stage now that it’s at a crossroads of atrophying, the energy becomes so limited it can disappear, self-destruct almost, or in loosening up, in letting go, remembering the light, it can allow the light in, the original love, light, re-energise and find, become a focused beam to illuminate the light, a brilliance, that’s what we hope for, an awakening, and in this focused intent the diamond will shine, the diamond light wrought through all this turmoil, a very special focused consciousness. The turning point has been reached and there are those who have opened up, transitioned, become aware of the original nature, allowed the light in more and more, are able to receive the light, the light of love, become transformed and we hope the threshold will approach and the whole crystalline structure will loosen sufficiently for the threshold to be reached and a new seeding, new formation, new phase and the polished diamond human consciousness will immerge, a new level radiating and shining back the original light of love. That is a real possibility, we’re working towards this. The individual elements of human consciousness are transitioning now, more and more will transition till the threshold approaches. It is approaching slowly, we hope to speed it up with a catalyst’

Me… ‘What do you mean by transitioning?’

‘Transitioning from being drawn to the negative, the state of the world, to a shifting consciousness, opening up to the light, what has been called in the past enlightenment, the enlightening, an energy shift, the old patternings in the brain break down so a new energy and an understanding, an experience of the one, of the unitary state of love is experienced. That is a stage, a point of no return then more and more people are experiencing that’

Me… ‘So what do we as individuals need to do to reach this point of transition?’

‘To wish for it, to hold the good of all, to ponder on these things, to be open, to be in the now, to release the judgements, release the old thinking, to be aware of how things are and to hold an openness, to hold an opening, to allow spirit to approach, we do the rest. So whoever calls out in the name of love, in the name of truth to wish to experience how it really is, who they really are, experience will be given. It’s the open heart we look for, the open mind, we do the rest because it’s the natural state, just requires the desire for the truth and a willingness to let go of all errors in thinking, a realisation of the conditioning and the false conditioning has led to a world that is a prison and that willingness to disbelieve how we’ve been taught to see things in the world can allow for the possibility of the true state, the original state to immerge, to be remembered. So there is a certain amount of intellectual seeking to be done, intellectual self-questioning, enquiry, contemplation, truth seeking, desire to see things as they really are not as we think they are, as we’ve been taught to think they are and that opens up the soul and to transition. The transition is really a natural process but being blocked by the fear forces of the current human paradigm. It’s been blocked and people are clinging to the old beliefs and ideas, clinging to a false sense of self, a false identity. Many of the current teachers are reinforcing the erroneous view of self. Many, many people are suspicious and weary of opening up to truth, to happiness, to joy, to love, they cling to the old familiar, the war games, divisions, goals, achievements, rat race, judgements, standards, growth curves, a lot of things that don’t matter in the long run. They cling to these because that’s what they’ve been taught to value, social norms, a simple innocent truth of being gets lost, rendered unimportant, the nugget of gold being buried in a pile of muck. So act of faith, to want to find, retrieve the nugget of gold, to be prepared, to wash away the muck, act of faith but you have to realise the resistance and the suspicion, oh no there’s nothing there, illusion, you take the title of Dawkins’ “God Delusion” like he’s thrown out the baby with the bath water, he’s thrown out the nugget of gold, he’s suspicious of it because there’s so much dogma, but with the voice of authority unfortunately the nugget of gold has been dismissed because of the human method of burying it in a pile of muck and then glorifying the muck and forgetting the gold. So there are truth seekers who want to get rid of the muck but in getting rid of the muck they will also get rid of the gold. There’s an old saying in the Upanishads, the self is not known through discourse, through splitting of hairs, through learning however great, it comes to the man who loves, takes that man’s body for his own… and the meaning from the point of view of what we’ve been talking about is that the transition will come to the one who loves truth, to reach out with love to the unknown, to the invisible truth, to reach out to self, to love the greater self, the true self and then the true self will come with love to claim you. So again, the story in the bible of the virgins polishing their lamps in preparation for the bridegroom, they don’t know when he will come but they keep polishing the lamps to be sure that when he comes he will see them shining bright and claim them for his own. So the bridegroom comes and the bride to be waits polishing the lamp. So the answer may be to affect the union of spirit with spirit, a mystical marriage. The answer is to keep the light, the longing for the bridegroom, the longing for the union, to keep that polished, to keep that sharp and bright in the heart, the desire for truth, the desire to know, the desire to be one with the truth, one with one’s own self, love of self, love of the living God. To cultivate that in whatever way you can and the self will come and claim, will be revealed in you, to you. The transition will happen, opening of the door, letting in the light’

There was a pause.

The whole room started to change to a beautiful orange colour to me.

‘I have a lady here with platted hair, long plat, Marigold, Margaret.  She has her back to me, she is, I can’t see if she’s holding a child or a mirror…’

Me… ‘Can you ask her to turn round?’

‘Yes… she’s turning round now and I just see she’s a vast space like a cave, like a cavern, a vast place, empty. She had a mirror, the mirror was reflecting the vastness, this vast empty space and the image of her disappeared and there is just this vastness of space’

Me… ‘What do you think that’s telling you?’

‘The reality beyond the person is something vaster, indefinable. When we try to see who we really are, as we turn towards it we dissolve, the “I” disappears and we become what we truly are’

Me… ‘Is that because we’re just a small part of a much greater self?’

‘Indeed, beyond our human understanding at present and there’s been a certain amount of fear from the human standpoint in letting go of the normal image that we hold of self, of the little self, the transitory self, the physical self that dies, there is a certain amount of fear associated with letting go of that, a certain amount of fear of seeing truly in the mirror who we are because who we are is not the physical body and much of the image that we have of our self is something very different, vaster, but we have intimations of, but there is nothing to fear because in this great cavern that is the being of Marigold, Margaret and the child she holds is the mother and the child, is everything, all those, all held within. I would say that in that cave of her being is love and all that she appears as has been transits, is held in love within that great cave of her whole being, the great paradox that this great emptiness of space holds the fullness of all being and all love, the paradox of being empty and full, empty of self but full of all selves, dead to self but alive to the living God’

Me… ‘Is it possible to live a physical life but also at the same time to have full awareness of our greater self?’

‘Yes’

Me… ‘Is that a state that we are all working towards?’

‘Yes’

Me… ‘If I think about that now it seems to me to be a confusing way to live, it seems quite difficult just to live a physical life but to have a complete understanding at the same time of our greater self seems quite complicated or confusing, difficult to concentrate on one thing or the other’

‘This has been the way before already; this is a valid way of being’

Me… ‘So has something caused us to lose that full awareness of our greater self whilst on the physical plane?’

‘Yes an immersion into the physical and a deliberate encasing of oneself in that physical form and experimenting in total immersion in order to experience, to hasten the experience of enlightenment in that form, focusing of energy in that form but an experiment that was premature but a way round it has been forged for those who’ve left the physical form and tried to communicate back to those in physical form. You see it’s possible to have access to the wider consciousness to a transition consciousness but to return to the experience, to allow the vibrational level to shift to the experience of the physical is possible but difficult. This has been happening for millennia in your time and is possible the other way for those immersed in the physical, to shift their vibrational level to the larger consciousness to the nonphysical and to hold that awareness, possible but difficult, but to do this with total, with full consciousness, this is the evolutionary shift that we are hoping for to increase the level of consciousness to the point that has been called enlightenment but for many when they die that is not automatic, it still has to be worked for because the conditioning of the physical still occludes the conscious entity so the transitioning actually occurs at many vibrational levels that relate to the physical. There are many vibrational levels for the physical being that transition between physical and nonphysical…’

‘I have a picture of Mrs Brown, an elementary teacher, nursery school, so I think I’m being told we’re at an elementary stage in our understanding so it’s difficult to convey the full picture, the complexity. The human understanding is in a very elementary stage, intellectual understanding and there have been some bad teachers, teachers who use fear and chastisement have failed, they’ve alienated their students and they’ve done a disservice. Perhaps we should finish there but I have with the image of Mrs Brown that the use of the stick is outmoded now and we need to use love as the educational tool of the future’

Liz asked for a little music to be played as she came back.
Once she was feeling back with it I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…