We had the room setup as usual.
I did the opening prayer at 7.15pm, turned
out the light and put the music on.
We did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation
exercise...
Liz started off seeing an archway through
to a garden. As she went to go through it, it kept getting further and further
away and then Liz found herself going down a long tunnel to get to the garden
which seemed to get more and more enclosed as she went through it. It then
became like a hospital corridor and the opening into the garden was like
transparent plastic strips which she managed to go through and found herself
out on a runway of an airport. Liz felt there was a plane there for her but
didn't need one as she had an engine on her back and she took off into the sky
heading towards some purple mountains in the distance. They were speckled with
gold gleaming lakes and buildings. Liz landed on a mountain that had a spiral
pathway and beautiful gardens and forests. There was a group of people like
pilgrims dressed in white going up this spiral path and Liz joined them. She
felt she was one of a large group all chanting together with complete love and
harmony and they were all focused on this journey upwards. The landscape spread
out and it was now like they were in an enormous grove and there were talks
being given on spiritual teaching. They were all given hammocks to lie in and
Liz had a feeling of complete rest and tranquillity. She felt she could stay there
forever but also knew that when they were ready they would continue their
upward journey...
I started off in front of a huge smooth
rock with a cave in it that was leading downwards somewhere. I then felt myself
being turned around and saw a forest behind me. I felt I had a choice to go
into the cave or into the forest, and decided to go into the cave. It was like
a narrow tunnel with steps going down and burning candles on the walls lighting
them up. The walls looked very green with a kind of moss growing on them and as
I went down the thought came to me that it was easy going down so tried to
change the direction of the tunnel using my imagination. I managed to get the
tunnel to go upwards but had to keep focused on it going upwards otherwise it
would start going down again. The colour of the walls changed from green to
yellow like sandstone and as I went up it got steeper and steeper. The steps
then changed to a rope ladder as I was now going straight up. The sandstone
walls started to disappear and I was in a kind of nothingness. The ladder now
looked like chrome and I saw an arm reach down to me which I grabbed and it
pulled me up onto an open shell like a clamshell then the arm dissolved into
the shell leaving me sitting alone. I felt the warmth of the sun as if I was
being rejuvenated or charged up by it and I felt I had to just sit there and
soak up the energies of the sun...
Once again there were several similarities
in our visualisations.
I put the music back on and we continued
our session...
I was trying some Buddhist meditations but
ended up falling asleep until just before the end of the music CD.
Liz remained awake and began to speak just
after the music CD finished...
'Bluebird, two bluebirds... I'm looking at
a round, oval window in a hedge. Looking through to an area of scrub, trees, a
football pitch, swans...'
'When all is said and done we have the wild
nature, we have the wilderness, we have the Earth to come home to, she is our
friend, our companion. The Earth and the sky are our friends, our companions,
part of our journey to be treasured, to be experienced, to be nurtured, to be
enjoyed. When we recover our connection the bluebird will come for us to be
with us. We must see again how everything that is useful to us comes from the
Earth, is given freely and all of our healing comes from the Earth, we are of
the Earth, our bodies, Earth to Earth, dust to dust. It is as if the spirit
inhabited a house, that house is Earth and we love our Earth, our house
supports us during our habitation, we must keep it habitable for it is a
temporary home for our spirit. When the spirit flies free it often looks for
its home, for the place for it to land, to recover, to discover, to learn, to
experience. It needs its place, its house, its school. When the spirit flies
free without constraint it's everywhere and all ways and spacious but then it
wants to be focused, to have a place, to have a spot where it can enrich, where
it can learn, where it can become more enriched. That place is Earth, this Earth
for us. Treasure it, keep it complete, keep it entact, keep it fresh and
welcoming'
'There are many today on Earth who have
lost the connection, who cannot feel the peace and the nurture, the love of
nature and the support of the Earth and they feel lost and alienated in a
maelstrom of conflicts, war zones, noise, confusion, pollution, industry and
stress with no time to rest their feet on the Earth and to see the stars
complete in the night without light pollution. Their place is lost, they're in
the Earth but they do not know the Earth and their mother is lost to them. They
are lost and they do not want their life very much because they've lost their
place, their true place and that is a sad thing, that needs to be restored,
that needs healing and the re-connection must be made, must be learnt,
re-learnt. It is not a luxury to roll in the grass, to spend time by the lakes
and the hills and the sea and under the sky, to camp out, to live in the
forest, it is not a holiday or a luxury it is a necessity, it is a fundamental
right and a need and that need must be met if life, human life is not to be
lost. The full human must have the connection of the birthright, it is the
birthright to have your feet on the Earth and your head in the stars. The full
human cannot flourish, cannot evolve, cannot fully incarnate if that birthright
is denied and lost. When it is lost humanity is lost. Reclaim the birthright of
the Earthlings, restore...'
'I see the water lily and its roots are
deep in mud of the Earth beneath the water, deep down, firmly rooted and every
year the lily opens its petals to the sun, rises up out of the water and
becomes a home for the dragonflies and newts and insects. A flower of great
beauty, the buds open, the leaves open to the sun and in the winter they die
down again to return with the roots deep in the Earth ready to flourish anew
with the new sun, with the Spring and the Summer and all the time the
connection with the Earth and the nourishment and nutrition from the Earth,
deep in the Earth is sustaining the flower, sustaining the flowering and that
must be true to the flowering of the human, the strength of the human is rooted
in the Earth and rises and grows in the sun. Our wish is for humanity to flower
and flourish in the Earth and to reach out and sing to the sun'
'I've got hedgehog or Hedges or Hodges here
affirming what was said'
'I sense Mary and Barbara... Richard and a
connection with Richmond Park, all affirming this message'
'I have Florence... Florence Nightingale?'
'I get an image like a river, like a river
of consciousness, a strand, into which so many people are feeding and have been
fed information, emotion. We're being fed by that also, that's feeding the mind
and it's accumulative wisdom, not to be sneezed at, not to be dismissed
lightly, call it the perennial wisdom. We keep coming back to it, it's the core
understandings that have been gleaned from the sojourns on the Earth, the Earth experience'
'Somebody says it's hard to digest all of
this... that may go back to the fact that it's not easy to acknowledge that
you've set off on the wrong path or you've lost your way. There's a tendency to
keep going because to have to retrace your steps and go back to the starting
point again is almost like an admission of failure but it's not, it's what the
scientist does all the time in going back to the drawing board, redesigning.
You have to go back and start from scratch sometimes when you realise that you
may have been on the wrong track and that's the valid point of experimentation
and learning, feedback. Back to the drawing board is a learning strategy, the
deconditioning, the un-learning in order to get a better grip, have a better
journey, a better experimental design, you have to do it, no point in carrying
on for the sake of it, out of inertia, out of a resistance to change, back to
square one, back to step one. That's not a loss, that's recouping your losses.
Start from first principles, go back to the root, the starting point'
'Somebody is just saying we all learn from
our mistakes... thank you'
I played a tune as Liz came back with it.
Then I did the healing exercise, closing
prayer and our closing down exercise...