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

40th Sitting 18/07/2014


We sat on Friday this week.

The room was set up as normal but we didn’t turn the magnetometer and computer on upstairs as there was a thunder and lightning storm going on while we sat.




At 8.30pm we started with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise.

Liz found herself on a brick edge of a beautiful pool covered with water lilies. To her right was a long wrought iron bridge. She couldn’t see where it led but she did see a funeral procession going over it. They were all dressed in black with pillbox type hats. Liz decided to fly over the bridge and she saw the man in the coffin sit up and look at her. He was wearing striped pyjamas. Liz reached down and pulled him out of the coffin and they flew together over to the other side, over an amazing landscape and into the distant hills. There were rainbows and fountains everywhere. Suddenly they found themselves in an enormous library with huge arches, then it shifted into a courtyard full of fountains and rainbows then back into the library again. The man wanted to stay in the library which was full of beautiful old books and so much learning he was overwhelmed. Liz introduced him to a white haired gentleman, a wise man and she left them talking before she took off, flew through a window and back to the lily pond where she crash landed like a duck…

I started off on a stony beach with lots of low grey cloud making it difficult to see anything clearly. I kept getting flashes in my eyes. (Maybe I was thinking of the thunder storm going on at the time?) I found a rickety old wooden bridge with steps disappearing up into the grey cloud. I wasn’t sure if the bridge was safe but put my faith in it and made my way up the steps. At the top I found a rope bridge which went down sharply almost touching the water then I found it a struggle to get up the other side but some hands reached down to me and helped me up. The hands belonged to two men dressed in white robes and as I stood on the other side I found the atmosphere dazzling as everywhere was a bright white mist. The men told me I wasn’t yet ready to see the other side clearly but when I was the mist would clear. It was now time for me to return so I slid back down the rope bridge had to pull myself back to the other side…

I did the opening prayer and put the music on.

I felt light headed.
I felt touches/pressure around my right ear and the back of my neck.
It looked lighter to me around the ceiling.

Liz was seeing moving white shapes. They were all different sizes. Some were spinning like catherine wheels, some moving horizontally and some coming towards her.

I was seeing a few blue blobs.
My arms were cold and my hands felt buzzy.
I felt pressure on my forehead.

Liz was hot.
She was getting the sensation of a structure like a door frame in the centre of the room, then it changed shape like an upside down roof, then it was streaming like molten metal and then looked like a tunnel.

To me the room now looked very dark but in the centre of the room was wavy movement like a net curtain moving in the wind.
I had lots of cob-web feelings on my face.

I got a strong sensation of something to my right.
There was a bright glowing to my right and it felt cold there.
I felt tickles down the right side of my neck.

I felt a pressure around my left wrist as if something was gripping it.

Liz got the feeling a cloak had been place around her and felt she couldn’t move.

I had a similar feeling and I perceived it as if someone was taking a mould from me.
I was held very still.
I felt warm but it seemed like the atmosphere around me was cold and I could feel it on my bare arms.
I felt a prod on the side of my right leg.
It kept going dark above me like a shadow moving across the ceiling.
I got a sweet smell like lilies.

Liz had a fleeting sensation of tall Swiss houses, like children’s fantasy houses in a valley.

The atmosphere to me now looked bright and misty with pin-pricks.

Liz felt a cob-web over her head.
She saw strange patterns like looking down on patterns made by sunflowers from a great height, a bit like crop circles or the patterns on a butterfly’s wing.

I felt tickles on the left side of my face.
It looked to me like the room was full of strands like fibreglass matting which then changed shape and it was like looking through a tunnel.

Liz was aware of what she perceived to be a mahonia bush to her left.
She felt something in her hair again; it was being pulled and twisted.

I got a fleeting sensation of a postman emptying a letter box then throwing the bag of letters over his shoulder and walking off.

Liz got the sensation of a crown of thorns being placed on her head.

The room was looking lighter to me.
I got the feeling there was a group of people to my right.
I saw one of them as a black man swaying along to the music. I said hello to him in my mind and he just smiled at me.
I felt a light touch on my right arm.

I felt something cold running down my right nostril and it felt like it was moving onto my cheek.
I picked up an ozone smell.

Liz got the name Hillary and a picture of a lady in 40’s or 50’s type cloths and felt she was in a department store.

The music ended.

The session seemed to have been unaffected by the thunder storm which carried on till about half way through.

Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise.

During the healing I felt the room was expanding and was like being inside a church. I then got the sensation of organ music playing…

39th Sitting 10/07/2014


We set the room up and sat as usual.

At 8.30pm we did the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz started off in a muddy place amongst reeds and bulrushes. She didn’t want to leave as she was enjoying watching the dragon flies and other insects. There was a robust stone bridge to her left which she felt drawn to and went over it with bare feet. On the other side was a town or city, lots of white buildings like hospitals and temples. It felt very structured, lots of people like nuns and nurses with white vales. It felt a very happy and enlightened place. Liz walked through the streets, through a tunnel and came to a square, like a quadrangle with a fountain and stone benches. She decided to sit on a bench. Someone came to join her and told her this place was a place of peace and harmony, the plane of universal harmony that we visit in our sleep. Liz then wanted to make a rose garden which she did just by thinking of white roses. She got a connection with her dad and the person with her changed into her dad. She got an incredible sense of love as he accompanied her back to the bridge.

I started off in a massive field full of long blue grass. I also got the feeling I didn’t want to leave as I watched it being blown by the wind looking like waves on water. Then the grass started to get shorter like it was being pulled into the earth until it looked like a mowed lawn. I felt there was a shore line in the distance, it was too far to walk so I just visualised myself there where I saw a small bridge. It was decorated with all the colours of the rainbow and standing at the entrance were two 17th century court jesters. I made my way over the bridge to a small domed island which I climbed onto and sat on the top. The island then started to rise out of the water and I realised I was sitting on the head of a giant who was now standing up in the water. I slid down onto his shoulder; he picked me up and held me on his hand. He began to talk to me nearly blowing me over as his breath was like a strong wind. He talked about size and how it didn’t matter if you were a microbe or a giant, we were all consciousness with a personality. He then gently placed me back in the blue grass field which had grown long again.

I did the opening prayer and immediately felt cold round my legs as I finished it with ‘Welcome friends’
Liz saw blotchy cotton wool type shapes floating around.
I had a pressure around my head and it felt like something was touching the right side of my face and right ear.
I thought the room was looking lighter and misty.
There were white blobs and lines moving about, mainly coming down from the ceiling.

We both experimented by closing our eyes and confirmed we could still see the light phenomena suggesting it was internal for both of us.
I was yawning.

I was getting more pressure on my forehead.
My legs were still cold but now felt fuzzy as well.
I saw a bright pin-prick shoot down from the ceiling. Liz didn’t see it.

Liz was seeing subtle colours, greens and turquoise.
I was seeing reds and blues and felt the atmosphere was looking wavy.

I felt something on the back of my neck.
Then I felt a vibration under my left foot for about 5 seconds.
I felt something on the top of my head, a bit like a drip of water hitting it.

It looked lighter and yellowish to my right and I was cold down my right side.
I felt there was someone or something there.
Then, as has happened before, it felt like it was moving closer and merging with me from my right.
The right side of me felt very fuzzy and I had the sensation it was dissolving.

Liz got the name ‘Francis’ and the feeling of curly hair.
She got the phrase ‘Shot through with gold’
Then she got ‘An assembly of friends… It doesn’t matter you don’t have to individualise them… A bicycle then a tricycle…’

Liz asked for a message and she got the words to a song she knows…

How beautiful they are,
The lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills,
In the hollow hills.

They have faces like flowers,
And their breath is wind
That stirs amid grasses
Filled with white clover.

Their limbs are more white
Than shafts of moonshire:
They are more fleet
Than the March wind.

They laugh and are glad
And are terrible;
When their lances shake
Every green reed quivers.

How beautiful they are,
How beautiful,
The lordly ones
In the hollow hills.

I drifted off for a while and felt I was walking down corridors of a school I recognised.
I saw a large detailed face of a young girl, blond hair, and freckles.
Then I saw a small face which wasn’t clear.

Then Liz got the feeling of a message in a bottle.
She asked what was on it and got ‘Dunkirk’
Then she got a sense of Khaki and saw a red beret.

I felt something moving up and wrapping round my right leg from my foot to my knee.
I was very cold all over.

Liz got the name ‘Hilary’

What sounds like a voice saying ‘Boo!’ came out on the recording.
Neither of us noticed it at the time.


Liz then got ‘Fellowship’ and ‘Fairy Tale’
She had a strong sense of someone she knew who was introduced to her and she decided to talk with her in her mind…
She got ‘Part of the assembly’ and then a sense of incredibly high levels beyond the ordinary and that it was possible to access them, they were trying to speak from that plane, trying to get Liz to pitch, the more individual level wasn’t so important.

Liz felt the message in a bottle was someone who was trapped in a lower plane and needed rescuing. She felt she was dragged to a lower level but then realised she didn’t need to be with them and could just send light and healing and direct them. Some of what she was experiencing was in dreams from which she couldn’t bring back a clear memory.

Liz got the name ‘Terrence’ and a length of material like cloth.

I had a big bright blob in front of me.

Liz got a big ‘G’

Liz got a strong feeling of the meaning of uniform. ‘All these people, why they don’t need to individualise, that the uniform thing and the response to all of them underneath the thing that links them all is love, it’s like a flower, and that’s the thing, it’s the experience, that’s the only thing that’s important, the experience, that unifying joining thread on which they’re spun, on which they cleave and how they can come back as a unified thread. That’s the only message, that’s the only response, beyond that the rest is trivia, it’s illusion, gossamer, the true essence, the nectar is the love’

I drifted off again towards the end and saw a man’s body face down on the ground all black and burnt. I got the feeling this person had died in a fire and now didn’t want to get up. I managed to persuade him to get up and sit in a chair and I cleaned the soot and ashes off him by blowing over him. I told him to look behind him for a light then walk into it whilst thinking of someone he loved who had already passed. This he did and I saw a frail old lady come out of the light to greet him and take him into it.

The music ended.

Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

Update 04/07/2014


The Mercury Experiment will continue next week 10/07/2014.

Last week Liz had a cold and this week we did a 'Liz in the cabinet sit'

38th Sitting 19/06/2014


We set the room up and sat as usual, kicking off with our Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz found herself in the hills. There was a large lake like a reservoir with a cable car going over it and up into the hills. Liz got into it and a kind man with overalls, short white hair and beard asked her where she wanted to go. Liz wanted to go all the way up into the hills which he told her was a long way as they set off overlooking valleys and wonderful scenery. They went through clouds into snowy mountains where they got off. It was snowing, visibility was low and there were many children there. There were lots of people waiting to greet Liz and somebody in a long grey woollen garment told her that this was a hospital, a sanatorium, healing for the soul. Liz had gone there to get perspective and she was told she was welcome back when she had more time before she returned in the cable car…

I started off amongst bushes and came out onto a shore which had a kind of block paving surface. I then came to a metal bridge with wooden sides and started to walk over it. When I put my hands on the side rails I noticed there was deep snow on them but no sign of snow anywhere else. I also noticed several cats on the bridge walking between my legs. Things then went a bit wobbly; I lost my bearings then found myself walking in a desert up a steep hill of sand. I couldn’t see anybody but was aware of being watched from all angles. It seemed like there were even people peering from behind the clouds. When I reached the top of the sand hill I stopped and was looking down on a crystal city sparkling in the sunshine. Again there were no people to be seen. I stayed there for a while then returned the way I had come and the dessert morphed back into the bridge…

I was now feeling a little light headed and had noticed the room get darker as Liz told me about her visualisation.

I then did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

Liz reported white blobby shapes swimming around the room.
I saw a whitish mist form throughout the room and several white blobs spiralling around, coming and going, one whizzed past me from left to right.

I had a pressure on my forehead.
It felt cold in front of me and I couldn’t stop yawning.

Liz had a cold feeling on the left side of her face.
She got a strong impression of an insect face looking at her like a dragon fly.
Then she got an image of a Gothic arched doorway in front of her.   

I had a fuzzy feeling on the front of both legs.
They both felt like they were dissolving.
I had a strong sensation of somebody in front of me.
I felt there was something pressing against my face, like a mask.

Liz got a picture of someone standing watching her, South American looking with dark curly hair.
Then Liz got the impression of a grasshopper.

I got a bright grey colour in front of me.
Then an impression of an animal face looking at me with big nostrils, like a donkey or camel.

I felt a buzzing vibration on the side of my face.

Liz felt a touch on the back of her head.
She could see a lot of green and got an image of ivy.
She felt like she had been knocked sideways.

Liz got the name Neddie.

I paused the music for a few minutes to listen out for any noises.
Apart from our stomachs rumbling we heard nothing.

As soon as I put the music back on I started seeing white wispy bits swirling round the room again.
Liz seemed to think that the first tune we played after the pause only played for a few seconds as if she had gone off for a while and missed it.

We both reported a blue/grey mist in the room.

I got a fuzzy feeling on the side of my left leg which felt like it was wrapping itself around it.

I again had a strong feeling of somebody or something in front of me.
There was a cold fuzzy feeling on the front of my legs and face.
I mentally asked it to move closer and tried to sense or experience any more information from it.
I became very cold all over as it seemed to merge into me. I got an image of a huge crystal with many facets like scales on a fish. It was mainly clear then I noticed it was changing to a deep blue from around the edges.

Liz kept getting the phrase ‘Unfinished business’
She felt there was work going on, preparation.
She also got images of people she had known and memories connected with them.

The music ended. We’d both drifted off during the last two tunes.
Once Liz was feeling back with it she did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise.

While she was doing the healing I saw the room suddenly change to a salmon pink colour.
We both had a sense that the room had expanded and was ringing, resonating out into the beyond...

37th Sitting 12/06/2014


We had the room set up and sat as normal.

At 8.30pm we started with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz began with a blue stretch of water. It was like a lagoon with pockets of sand between the shallow water. There were rocks with a bridge between them. Beyond the rocks was a lovely landscape with trees, houses and people. Liz wanted to get there and had to cross a rope bridge. A girl came towards her as she crossed dressed in white. Liz knew the girl but couldn’t place her, then another girl joined them and they all crossed the bridge together. They were very friendly, like the epitome of the friendliest women Liz had known, very spiritual, positive and open. They entered an eco-village with windmills and met a man in a white robe with a white beard. He told Liz she was very welcome here and could come back any time, this was her territory. The two girls accompanied Liz back to the other side…

I started walking over marshy, grassy ground. I noticed to my right a white heron sitting on a fence. As I walked past it took off and was flying above me. I reached a wooden bridge which stretched over choppy water. The heron was still above me and followed me as I crossed the bridge. I eventually came across a Victorian lady in a long white dress. She was holding an empty wicker basket and I then noticed the heron had a similar wicker basket in its beak. It swooped down to the lady and they swapped baskets. I could see that the one the lady now had wasn’t empty and I walked over to her to see what was inside. It was full of golf ball sized pearls surrounded in a mist like dry ice. She told me they were pearls of wisdom and handed me one to take back to my side…

I’d noticed shooting stars coming down in the room while Liz was telling me about her trip.

I then did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

Almost immediately I felt a fuzzy feeling on my right leg starting on the side then working its way round to the back.
I couldn’t stop yawning.
I felt a light touch on the big toe of my right foot.

Liz had a distorted feeling on her face like it was being pulled in different directions.
My face felt like the right side had become heavier or was being pulled downwards.
Liz had a similar feeling on the left side of her face and said it felt like the right side of her face wasn’t there.

I sensed a lot of movement swirling around in front of me but nothing visual.    

Liz had touches and tickling in her hair on the left side.
I felt like my right ear was being pulled downwards.
I had a pressure on my right foot.
Then I got tickles in my hair on the right side and a pressure around my right eye.

Liz had the impression of looking through a window at holly and Christmas trees.
She was drifting off a bit.

My throat was feeling irritated making me cough.
It looked lighter and blue to my right.

I felt tickles round my right ankle on my left foot.
Then I had a tickle and fuzzy feeling on the front of my left leg.
The fingers on my left hand felt fuzzy.

I saw a wavy light in front of me.
My nose became blocked.
I felt a fuzzy feeling and a pulling on the back of my neck.

I had a vision of green bushes covered in red berries.

I felt light touches on the back of my left hand.

About half way through our session I turned the music down a bit for three tunes and we listened out for noises.

There were a few taps coming from the wall to my left but we weren’t sure if they were from the next door neighbours or not.
I asked the spirit team to do it again if it was them but they didn’t so we concluded it was probably coming from next door.

I turned the music back up again.

Liz got the name Linda.
Then she got Norman, crochet, and she was shown a suitcase.

There was a loud click/crack which sounded like it was in the room, high up on my right which is the opposite side to our noisy neighbours.
It came out on the recording…


The music ended and Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise.
She felt she was being overshadowed during the healing while to me the room looked like it was getting lighter and then became a gold colour…

36th Sitting 05/06/2014


We sat and set the room up as usual.

At 8.30pm we started with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz began with beautiful yellow irises all around her and a path through fields and ponds down to a river. There was a woven willow bridge across the river which Liz started to cross. It was populated with deer, donkeys, rabbits, all sorts of animals and children and as Liz reached the other side she saw that was like an enchanted forest with more animals and children. There were schools that she had seen before and there seemed to be all the fairy tales and characters there, Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel, etc… A tall woman with short dark hair came up to Liz. She was friendly but not over warm, a dispassionate friendliness. Liz felt it would be nice to have a big hug but felt that was implicit, she was slightly stern. She told Liz that the fairy tales and characters were all important devises for teaching the children and protecting them somehow. They helped them develop imagination. Liz got the feeling of lots of bottles of milk, the feeling of them being nurtured, looked after. Then Liz was given a box full of bubbles, she got into one of the bubbles and the lady blew her back to her own side…

I started off going down some black marble steps between rocks leading me to a dry, warm sandy beach. I walked across it to a wooden bridge which looked like it had been well used as it was covered in sand from the beach. As I made my way across the bridge it got colder and I began seeing snow on the bridge. When I reached the other side everything was covered in snow and I found a group of Eskimos sitting round a fire and I joined then for a chat. They told me they were pleased I was doing the circle reports in a thorough and honest way each week and I should carry on doing them as they were useful to others both now and in the future…

I then did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

I had a pressure on my forehead.
I was cold around the front of my legs and face.
It looked light in my peripheral vision and I kept noticing flashes in front of me.

Liz commented that she too had been seeing similar flashes earlier just before we did the Rainbow Bridge. She described them as a visual aura.

We both felt light headed.

Liz got the name ‘Susan’

Liz saw a cluster of small lights go on and off in front of her then she saw moving shapes.
I had a pink/orange mist in front of me with a few dim white lights swirling around in it.
I also saw a few pin-prick lights come and go.

Liz was getting cold.

Liz had lumpy white shapes in front of her, then dim torch lights.
I felt tickles on the back and top of my head.

Liz felt like something was being whirled around on her right eye.
Then I had a line of light go across my right eye and I felt a fuzzy feeling around it.

I had a fuzzy feeling on the back of my neck, then on my right leg between knee and foot.
I saw a bright blob in front of me.

My right leg now felt like it wasn’t there but I still felt my foot!!!
Then I got the same feeling in my right arm.
I felt like something was slowly moving through me, right to left.
I was kept very still.

Liz had a prickly feeling in her hair, then a feeling of something sliding over her head and down the left side. It felt to her like a hand.

Liz then got a strange feeling down her left side like it was melting.
This mirrored what I was feeling.

It now felt like something like a towel was being wrapped around my right leg.
My left arm became fuzzy.

I then had a warm feeling on my left leg just above the knee. It was like a warm hand was resting on it but I only felt the warmth, not the physical touch.

I didn’t turn the music down this week as I felt I shouldn’t move at that point.
I suddenly got very cold all over.

Liz felt a tap on her head like a rap from a knuckle.
She then felt a pressure pushing down on her head.

I had another bright blob in front of me.

For a few seconds I got the impression I was seeing the music not hearing it. It appeared like a flat sea shell out of the player.

I got very cold again.

We both drifted off for a while as the last two tunes played.

Liz came back with…
‘Cathryn, a field of daisies and sunshine’

We both felt a bit catatonic at the end but once we were both feeling back with it Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

35th Sitting 29/05/2014


We didn’t sit last week as we had a ‘Liz in the cabinet’ sit instead.
This week it was just Liz and me.

At 8.30pm we kicked off with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz started off on very wet marsh land. Everything was surrounded by rainbows including each blade of grass. There was no bridge but there was a raised dry sun-baked tract running through the marsh and Liz walked along that. She reached some low lying buildings that looked like laboratories. Inside people in white coats were working on things. Liz didn’t feel particularly welcome as they were all so busy working but they took her to a grey bearded man with short hair who was happy to show Liz around and talk to her. She saw plants and ducks; it looked like they were breeding things there and concerned about saving species from earth. It all seemed a bit secret and Liz wondered where the love was in all of this but she then saw a higher ground that surrounded this place with temples and she was told this was where they got their inspiration from…

I started off high up and had to make my way down zigzag steps leading to the bridge which was decorated with lights along each side. I tried to see the other side but got the feeling I shouldn’t be looking too far ahead yet and to just concentrate on where I was now. As I walked over the bridge it morphed into a brightly coloured children’s bouncy castle with lots of children playing on it. I found it hard to walk over and asked one of the kids where I could get off and he pointed at some steps in the corner. I climbed down onto an asphalt surface and some of the children threw balls to me which I threw back. I was aware of other people in the distance observing but could not see them clearly and then the bouncy castle started to move away from me looking like a hovercraft and as it disappeared I found myself back on my side…

I did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

As soon as the music started I got cold around my legs and a pressure on my forehead.
I had a tickle in my right ear and fuzzy feeling on right foot.
Then I felt a cold sensation on my forehead like a drip of water hitting it.
It was getting very cold to my left.

We were both yawning.

I felt feathery touches down the left side of my face.

There was a bluish white mist in the room to my left.
Liz saw it too in the same area which was to her right. She described it as milky blue.

After a few minutes I noticed the mist was in front of me then to my right as if it had moved through me.
Not at the same time but about a minute later Liz reported a similar thing like the mist had moved through her and was now to her left.
We were both now very cold on the side where we perceived the mist.    

I had a pressure on my right foot.
I could feel something on the back of my neck and also around my right ear. It felt like something was connecting them together.

I picked up a smell like the sea side and felt cold all over like I was in a cool breeze.

Liz felt a feathery touch around her eye lids.
Then I felt a feathery touch on the back of my left hand fingers.
It was very cold and fuzzy down my right side.

I noticed a black shadow like a big bird go over me towards the centre of the room.

I picked up a musty smell, like smelly socks.

We were at the half way point and I lowered the volume on the music.
We were supposed to be listening out for noises in the room but we both drifted off for a while!!!
I came back after about ten minutes to see a bird’s face like an eagle staring at me. It was brown and golden colour and I noticed two rings each side of its face.
Then the face faded then I saw dim lights coming and going in the distance.

Liz came back about ten minutes after me.
She had somebody with her and verbalized what she was getting…

‘Hark… the great shinning… blades of grass blazing with gold… he’s trying to convey… I’ve got the lambs again; feed my lambs… woven basket, a basket of grasses and rushes… makes me think of Moses and hark is the word of the prophets… I ask who’s there and I get Leslie… I ask for a message and just get plain brown wrapping paper, keeping it simple…’

Liz was trying hard not to elaborate or add her own interpretations to what she perceived.

Liz then got the names Rupert and Brenda.
She saw brown eyes.

The music came to an end.


Liz did our healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise.